First Commonwealth Era
| First Commonwealth Era | |||
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| 1855–1915 | |||
| Location | Azmara | ||
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In Azmaran history, the First Commonwealth Era (Azmaran: Ânde-Gemenwelþ Tyyden) refers to the period between the overthrowing of the Azmaran monarchy and the establishment of a liberal democratic regime in 1855 and the political fragmentation and 1915 switch to parliamentarianism as a result of the Great Collapse, largely overlapping with the Prachtvolle Epoch in Werania and the Long Peace in Estmere.
The period is commonly seen as a time of great economic and social change as continued to rapidly industrialise leading to urbanisation on a large scale, with the rapid growth of the central Bojnersteden conurbation around Aalmsted and the rapid development of railroads and canals being seen as key examples. Many politically and socially progressive reforms were enacted during the period such as universal male suffrage, state-funded mandatory primary education, separation of church and state and ultimately primitive forms of unemployment and disability insurance. Furthermore, the removal of the political censorship that had characterised the preceding monarchical era and increasing literacy led to many breakthroughs in Azmaran art and literature as realism came to dominate both fields.
The era's name was adopted retroactively in order to distinguish the era politically from the post-1933 Second Commonwealth Era, with the eighteen-year period between the two commonly being termed the Realignment due to the rapid political changes commonly seen as a transitional stage between the two that occured.