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Imperial State of the Crown of Angvar | |
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| Motto: Nacht sei mit uns "Night be with us" | |
| Anthem: Lok'Ongvátar "Song of Angvar"  | |
| Badge of the House of Mordegard Insignien des Haus von Mordegard  |
Angvar (/ˈɒŋvɑː/ (
listen); Angvarian: Ongvátar [ɔŋˈβʌtɑʀ]; Nemedian: Eisenheim [ˈaɪseːnhaɪm̩]), officially the Imperial State of the Crown of Angvar (Angvarian: Pórandor-búbhosh Ashdurbûzg Ongvátar; Nemedian: Kaisertum der Eisenheimʃes Reichskrone is a transcontinental sovereign state comprising of the mainland of the Cimmerian continent and its adjoined subcontinents of Acheron and Borania, most of Eastern Hyboria and northern Seria, numerous islands in the Atlantean and Lemurian oceans and various overseas territories and associated states. At 40,998,796 square kilometres (15,829,724 square miles), or three and a half times the size of Cimmeria, Angvar is the largest country in the world by area. Bounded to the north by the Boreal Sea, to the south by the Obrisian Sea, to the west by the Maulland Sea and to the east by the Kippon Sea, it borders Draconia and Ostenia to the west, Sylvania to the southwest, Obrisia, Berbania and Varkania to the south, and Seria to the east, while sharing maritime borders with the North Sea Realm and Kippon in the west and east, respectively. Via its overseas possessions, it borders the Ankin-Fúbù Union, Kaozhi, Liujiang, and Jianqing by way of the Legation Zones in Seria; Baqet, Lozi-Vulu, Kikivu, Ngubu and the Haziri Boqorate in Maurica; and New Zancora, Pregonia and New Tilgard in Upper Brenonnica. In addition to its 169 governorates, 49 of which are overseas; 18 internal and external territories and one capital district, there are two associated states, namely Gaietia in Auralia and Totenheim. The westernmost and easternmost governorates in the mainland are Weißeheldenburg and Vladivoyna, respectively, while the northernmost point overall is in the external territory of Kaiser Albrechts-Land in Borealia and the southernmost being the Los Island in the Auralian Ocean. With a population exceeding 1.27 billion people, 60.81 percent being ethnic Angvarians, Angvar is the second-most populous country in the world. Its capital and largest city, Mordegard, has a population of around 440 million residents; followed by other major cities such as Sankt-Ninuesburg, Valenborg, Balzhed, Drestholm, Nurnhalt, Skarbolg, Rabenraus, Hexentreffen and Lestatshafen.
Since prehistoric times, the continent of Cimmeria has been at first sparsely inhabited by anthropophagic cave-dwelling peoples whose descendants have come to be referred to as Wendol by medieval historians, before being displaced by the Ungols, a people of hitherto obscure origins migrating from as far as the Utter East and arrived in Cisudelia somewhat between 15,000 and 13,000 BCE. The Iron Horde, a confederation of thirty-three tribes from which the name of the country is derived, arrived on the same route as their predecessors and intermingled with them and the eastern Hyborian tribes that preceded them. The southwestern region of Cimmeria was previously conquered by the ancient Acheronian empire at its highest extent before it broke off by the start of the Hyborian Age; it was mentioned in cave reliefs as a wealthy province known for its richly-colored textiles and other finery. Archaic Argosians settled its southern coast in the 7th and 3rd centuries BCE, founding colonies that would later evolve into powerful, independent city-states and encountering the Ungolians before their conquest by the Aurean Empire.