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Barbellon, sometime also spelled as Barbellos or Barbel, is a Drevstranese portuary city located on Lake Kulpanitsa and is the administrative capital of the Ötvar Department. Its population was of around 820,000 people in 2018, making it the third most populous city in Drevstran. Barbellon was founded sometime during the early Tervingian Era under the name of Agar as a Gothic colony just a dozen of kilometers north of the lake-port of Dravast. Quickly, Agar grew and outshined Dravast who began to dwindle until it was quasi-abandoned by the late Tervingian Era. Barbellon always remained Drevstran main tradehub on Lake Kulpanitsa with a strong service and retail sector and a large agroalimentary and textile industry refining the goods from the rest of the Medenzag. It is also an education and research center with a strong academic tradition. Tourism is a major industry in Barbellon, with its many museum, historical monuments, and spiritually-significant sites for Emendatic Nazarians. A multicultural city since time immemorial, Barbellon remain home to important diaspora and communities from around Kulpanitsa. This notably include a strong Valdavian community which fled Ostrozava in the wake of its Revolution. (See more...)
