Nelborne War

Nelborne War
Part of the Nelborne conflict and World War II
Alquiyan soliders advanding in Joghen, 1940
Date 25 March 1938 - 10 May 1942 Location The Nelborne Result Seketese-Svealandic victory Territorial status quo Restoration of the Lormot monarchy Continued tension in Alquiya–Seketan relations
Belligerents
Seketan New Svealand United Kingdom	Alquiya Lormotia (1940–1942) Germany	Iceland (1940–1945)

The Nelborne War was a declared war fought from 1938 to 1942. Nominally considered a minor theatre of World War II, the war was part of a broader conflict which pinned Seketan and New Svealand against Alquiya and later Lormotia.

Alquiya launched an ground and amphibious invasion of Bynan on March 1938, with attacks in Fyedor and Cjetor and rapid advancement in the Trjebian plains, declaring an annexation of the claimed area. Seketese troops managed to halt the advance from Prynsten and Libek ná Lycyn, launching a counteroffensive with Svealandic support pushing Alquiyans south but failing to repel the Alquiyan occupation entirely. The Alquiyan-backed 1939 Lormotian coup d'état formed close military ties between countries. Lormotia formally entered the war by invading New Svealand in May 1940. On May 1940, the United Kingdom invaded Iceland and imposed a widespread blockade in support for New Svealand.

Alquiya in October 1940 launched a renewed attack on Seketan, successfully pushing to Zynybec over months of heavy losses. New Svealand grew into a state of total war and prevented further losses past Rosenburg. The frontline stabilized as Alquiya and Lormotia by 1941 had largely depleted their resources towards the conflict as the result of the blockade. On April 1941, the Seketese counterattacked with renewed air support supported by the British. Seketan declared war on Nazi Germany on 1 June 1941.

By 1942, both sides had suffered heavy casualties with morale tanking. With the front in Bynan still in stalemate, a Seketese-Svealandic push southeastward resulted in the utter defeat of Lormotia, which had already been experiencing mass political instability. The Treaty of Glasgow formally ended the war; its terms required that Alquiya would nominally cease territorial claims within Seketan, and that Lormotia's former constitutional monarchy be restored. In the aftermath of the war, the Alquiyan and Seketese governments retained tense relations and would only de jure remove Alquiya's claim of the Rynedan region in its constitution in the aftermath of the 1981 Alquiyan-Seketese crisis.

Background

Rynedan dispute

As the historical borderland between Alquiya, Seketan, Trjebia, and Wilskland, the Rynedan Pennisula has been contested for centuries. Traditionally it had been part of Trjebia's Joghen and Dharghī clan kingdoms and was predominantly Trjebian speaking, however, by the early 14th century the Nelbec Kingdom of Seketan had largely taken over the area. The partitions of Trjebia led to a contested interest in the region, as the Kingdom of Alquiya fought small conflicts with Seketan over control of Trjebian land and their strategic positions. Over the centuries, in an attempt to strengthen their hold over the region, the native Trjebian population was assimilated or ousted by incoming Seketese and Wilsk farmers or greatly assimilated int, and by the time of the creation of the Nelbec Empire, the region was majority Seketese/Wilsk.

In 1837 large coal deposits were found on the peninsula, further fueling an already booming manufacturing sector in the province of Bynan. The region as a whole became the Nelbec Empire's factory, with 53% of manufactured goods, 61% of coal, and 70% of steel coming from Bynan in 1900. The dissolution of the Nelbec Empire led to Alquiya losing out on these regions, severely hampering their industrial capacity and angering many nationalists and irredentists. In 1920 then nationalist leader and later Alquiyan Prime Minister Frereo Aijagi made a speech outlining what he saw as Alquiya's claims to the peninsula. In that speech, he claimed that Alquiya had an obligation to protect Trjebians still living there as they were "part of the Alquiyan people", and that Alquiya had to restore the power it had during the Nelbec Empire by seizing the industrial land in Bynan. Upon Aijagi's appointment to Prime Minister in 1922, he would use these points as Alquiya's casus beli to dispute the Rynedan peninsula with Seketan.

See also

• Nelborne