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Agnannet is divided into four quadrants, known as the four quarters of Agnannet, corresponding to the cardinal directions. These are Afalla the northern quadrant, Tegetan the eastern quadrant, the southern quadrant of Ajuss, and Ateram the western quadrant of the city. The four quadrants meet at the center of the city, where the Palace district and the Old City are found. The city is bisected east to west by the Timɣar Amejj, the central axis of transit across the city. | |||
==Demographics== | ==Demographics== | ||
==Economy== | ==Economy== | ||
[[File: | [[File:P1190743_-_הלבניות_בבתי_הזקוק_-_על_רקע_ישובי_הסביבה..JPG|250px|thumb|left|COPEC Tamse Refinery in western Agnannet]] | ||
The city of Agnannet is the central hub of the Charnean political system, the country's single largest population center and the base of operations for most of its major firms. Consequently, the city has become the heart of the Charnean economy. | The city of Agnannet is the central hub of the Charnean political system, the country's single largest population center and the base of operations for most of its major firms. Consequently, the city has become the heart of the Charnean economy. Since its foundation, Agnannet has prospered from the trans-Ninvite trade as one of the main interconnections between southern and northern Scipia. This remains the case in the modern day, as Agnannet has transformed into the central hub of all land and air traffic across Charnea and by extension central Scipia. This status as the heart of Charnean logistics remains the basis of the economy of Agnannet, sustaining its key manufacturing and service sectors. Agnannet has been the premiere center of production in the country long before the industrialization of Charnea, producing metal weapons and tools, clothing, furniture, and serving as a central point of processing and distribution for the valuable trade commodities of the area such as salt, gold and {{wp|Kermes (dye)|Kermes dye}}. This role as a processing and refining center for commodities from across the desert expanded following the late 19th century mining boom in Charnea enabled by the advent of the desert railroads which expanded access to mineral rich but isolated and inhospitable regions of Charnea. The first centers for the production of steel, refined copper and aluminum, as well as the first petroleum refineries were established in Agnannet with their supplies of raw material coming in through the railways and oil pipelines carrying precious substances from the resource fields of the Ninva desert. | ||
[[File:Ancient_covered_souq,_Aleppo,_Syria.jpg|250px|thumb|right|The Great Sooq at night]] | |||
Over the first half of the 20th century, Agnannet became the forward edge of the modernization of the Charnean economy with the establishment and expansion of the advanced manufacturing industries. This began in the oil industry, with the refineries built across the city over the 1920s and 30s as well as the oil fields which supplied them becoming nationalized in 1945 under [[COPEC]], producing a wide variety of refined {{wp|petrochemicals}}. This would later lead to the creation of the Charnean plastics industry dominated by [[Plexico]] in the mid 1960s, with both the main COPEC facilities and the key Plexico plastics factories established in Agnannet. The manufacturing industry in Agnannet would also diversify into the business of producing metal components using the mineral resources already being processed for export in Agnannet and the surrounding towns across Achra. The industrialization of the city would continue in this pattern, exploiting the resources already to the local market due to the Agnannet's status as a transport and logistics hub to establish more complex economic activities, with further economic expansion benefitting from the banks, roads, schools and administrative infrastructure already put in place to sustain previous developments. The pattern of development of Agnannet would subsequently be copied by the smaller Charnean cities such as [[Azut]], [[Ekelhoc]] and [[Tanitnet]] following suit in the footsteps of the capital. | |||
Agnannet's internal economy still retains many of the old fixtures of the city's industries, producing textiles and clothing, furniture and other domestic products using traditional methods primarily for sale to other residents of the city rather than for the export market. Novelties, pieces of art and souvenirs are also significant craft industries in Agnannet, primarily serving the growing market of tourists visiting the city, breathing new life in the dozens of {{wp|Bazaar|Sooqs}} found in all the regions of the city and most of all the Great Sooq in the Old City, which had previously declined due to the flight of the lower and middle class population from central Agnannet to the surrounding wards. While tourism began primarily in the form of sightseers visiting the pyramids and other historical landmarks of the Charnean capital, it has gradually transformed into a more diversified economy with the growth of the large casino resorts of Agnannet turning hospitality and the restaurant industry from secondary activities to major fixtures of the city's economy. In the 21st century, these service industries have continued to expand and have outpaced the growth of the yet dominant manufacturing firms established in the city, with significant financial, real estate and entertainment firms beginning to appear over the past decade in the desert metropolis. | |||
==Education== | ==Education== | ||
==Healthcare== | ==Healthcare== | ||
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The city of Agnannet is the junction point for the Great Scipian Railway, the Ninvite Periclean Railway and the Agala-Agnannet Railway. The Great Scipian and Agala-Agnannet railways connect at the Agnannet Central train station in the eastern Tegetan quarter, while the terminus of the Ninvite Periclean railway and the Agnannet-Ekelhoc line is the Great Tenere station located in the opposite side of the city in Ataram. The two major rail hubs of the city are connected by the Timɣar Amejj. The Great Scipian Railway connects the Ninva desert and the major Charnean cities to destinations in East Scipia, principally in [[Alanahr]], with Agnannet as its western terminus. The Ninvite Periclean and Agala-Agnannet railway are both north-south rail axes passing through Agnannet and can be considered northern and southern extensions of a combined trans-Scipian railway linked together by the Timɣar Amejj, with the Agala-Agnannet extending south towards [[Itayana]] and the Ninvite Periclean traveling north before branching off near the borders of [[Talahara]] and [[Tyreseia]] to join with the railways in those nations. Agnannet is also the hub for numerous regional rail lines connecting outlying communities in Achra and some of the neighboring provinces to the Agnannet metropolis. Western regional lines primarily connect at the Great Tenere station, with eastern lines linking up to the corresponding Agnannet Central station. | The city of Agnannet is the junction point for the Great Scipian Railway, the Ninvite Periclean Railway and the Agala-Agnannet Railway. The Great Scipian and Agala-Agnannet railways connect at the Agnannet Central train station in the eastern Tegetan quarter, while the terminus of the Ninvite Periclean railway and the Agnannet-Ekelhoc line is the Great Tenere station located in the opposite side of the city in Ataram. The two major rail hubs of the city are connected by the Timɣar Amejj. The Great Scipian Railway connects the Ninva desert and the major Charnean cities to destinations in East Scipia, principally in [[Alanahr]], with Agnannet as its western terminus. The Ninvite Periclean and Agala-Agnannet railway are both north-south rail axes passing through Agnannet and can be considered northern and southern extensions of a combined trans-Scipian railway linked together by the Timɣar Amejj, with the Agala-Agnannet extending south towards [[Itayana]] and the Ninvite Periclean traveling north before branching off near the borders of [[Talahara]] and [[Tyreseia]] to join with the railways in those nations. Agnannet is also the hub for numerous regional rail lines connecting outlying communities in Achra and some of the neighboring provinces to the Agnannet metropolis. Western regional lines primarily connect at the Great Tenere station, with eastern lines linking up to the corresponding Agnannet Central station. | ||
===Airports=== | ===Airports=== | ||
The main air travel hub in Charnea is Agnannet International Airport, located far to the northeast of the city. | |||
==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||
===Architecture=== | ===Architecture=== | ||
Revision as of 14:12, 11 February 2023
Agnannet ⴰⴳⵏⴰⵏⵏⴻⵜ | |
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Clockwise from top left: Great Pyramids at sunset, 19th century residential towers, Old Agnannet traditional architecture, Mamala Tower. | |
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| Country |  Charnea |
| Region | Achra |
| Wards | 4 quarters
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| Settled | 4th century BCE |
| Area | |
| • Urban | 250 km2 (100 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 200 m (656 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Urban | 7,825,622 |
| • Density | 31,302/km2 (81,070/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Agnannetian |
| Postcode districts | CA, CE, CT |
| Area code | 145 |
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Agnannet (Tamashek: ⴰⴳⵏⴰⵏⵏⴻⵜ, or archaic ⴳⵏⵏⵏⵜ) is the capital of Charnea, located in the central region of Achra. It is the largest city in Charnea and one of the largest in Scipia, serving as a global city and a hub of the Scipian economy in its capacity as one of the premiere urban centers on the continent. Agnannet has a population recorded at 7,825,622 inhabitants living within the city's land area of 250 square kilometers, making it the most densely populated Charnean city with an average density of over 31,000 residents per square kilometer. The city is divided into four large administrative quarters - Afalla, Tegetan, Ajuss, and Ateram - which are further subdivided into a total of 75 districts. Agnannet has been inhabited more than 2 millenia, being one of the four great ancient cities of the Ninva Desert alongside Azut, Ekelhoc and Hamath. Until the mid 19th century, historical Agnannet was largely confined to what is today considered the Old City and the Palace district in Afalla. The industrialization of Charnea and resulting mass urbanization of the population in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to the demographic explosion of Agnannet and a radical change in its urban layout and character as a city, giving rise to its modern organization and municipal institutions. Today, the city is home to more than quarter of the Charnean population and contributes nearly half of the national GDP as the premiere financial, economic, cultural and political center of the country.
The city gains its name from the Agnan of the Tree who is remembered as one of the greatest Amenokals of the ancient Tamazɣa. Agnannet, literally "the resting place of Agnan", was established as a settlement surrounding the funeral monument of the great king of the Amaziɣ, the first of what would become the three Great Pyramids of Agnannet. This monolithic landmark dominating the landscape quickly became an important waypoint and rest stop for the nomads and trans-Ninvite caravans traversing the area, eventually establishing a permanent town around the nearby oases. Agnannet remained a relatively minor oasis town best known for its famous landmark until the time of Ihemod the Inheritor, a Tenerian conqueror who took Agnannet for his capital in 1360 after uniting all the Tamashek speaking tribes of the Ninva and establishing the Kel Kaharna, later known as the Charnean Empire. The city grew in size during this era, enriched by the plunder of Ihemod's conquest of the majority of the Scipian continent, growing with a population of Tenerian warriors, administrators, and Ikelan made to settle in Achra to grow the Imperial core. Agnannet's role as Charnea's capital would again serve its growth as a city in the 19th century, with the radical reformation of the aging empire of Ihemod into modernized Charnean Empire of the 20th century which would see Agnannet in particular transformed from a prosperous but sparsely populated desert town into the industrial metropolis of the Ninva.
History
Geography
Climate
Agnannet has a desert climate ( Koppën Classification BWh ) typical of the Ninva Desert characterized by long, extremely hot summers and short, pleasant winters. The heat becomes extremely elevated in the dry season with temperatures regularly exceeding 40°C (104°F) and at times reaching as high as 49-50°C (between 120.2 and 122°F) between the months of April and October, which make up the dry season in central and northern Charnea. The average temperature does not drop below 20°C (68°F) at any point during the year, and there has never been any recorded temperature below freezing. However, ground frost can occur during winter nights in the countryside outside the city to the north and east. Rainfall is concentrated between the months of December and March, with the Agnannet receiving very little precipitation overall. The region receives almost no rain whatsoever during the dry season. Dust storms are a relatively common occurrence, and particularly severe dust storms have been known to come over the city once every few years to once every decade and reduce visibility to as low as 10 meters, causing the cancellation of flights out of the city's airports and the shutting down of most schools for the duration of the dust storm.
| Climate data for Agnannet (1965-2011) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 32.5 (90.5) |
33.8 (92.8) |
37.0 (98.6) |
41.2 (106.2) |
44.1 (111.4) |
46.2 (115.2) |
47.1 (116.8) |
49.8 (121.6) |
43.0 (109.4) |
41.5 (106.7) |
38.0 (100.4) |
31.9 (89.4) |
49.8 (121.6) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 21.3 (70.3) |
24.4 (75.9) |
28.7 (83.7) |
34.4 (93.9) |
38.4 (101.1) |
40.3 (104.5) |
42.5 (108.5) |
41.6 (106.9) |
40.3 (104.5) |
35.3 (95.5) |
27.8 (82.0) |
22.3 (72.1) |
33.1 (91.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 15.4 (59.7) |
17.3 (63.1) |
25.4 (77.7) |
26.9 (80.4) |
33.9 (93.0) |
34.7 (94.5) |
34.2 (93.6) |
34.7 (94.5) |
33.5 (92.3) |
28.4 (83.1) |
21.2 (70.2) |
16.3 (61.3) |
26.8 (80.3) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 9.0 (48.2) |
11.2 (52.2) |
15.2 (59.4) |
20.4 (68.7) |
26.9 (80.4) |
27.0 (80.6) |
29.3 (84.7) |
29.2 (84.6) |
25.4 (77.7) |
21.1 (70.0) |
15.5 (59.9) |
10.3 (50.5) |
20.0 (68.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 1.3 (34.3) |
1.5 (34.7) |
4.5 (40.1) |
11.0 (51.8) |
13.0 (55.4) |
20.1 (68.2) |
22.6 (72.7) |
22.7 (72.9) |
15.1 (59.2) |
14.0 (57.2) |
7.0 (44.6) |
1.6 (34.9) |
1.3 (34.3) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 20.5 (0.81) |
18.0 (0.71) |
17.9 (0.70) |
11.0 (0.43) |
8.9 (0.35) |
4.0 (0.16) |
4.7 (0.19) |
2.0 (0.08) |
0.1 (0.00) |
0.8 (0.03) |
9.7 (0.38) |
16.6 (0.65) |
114.2 (4.49) |
| Average rainy days | 9.1 | 7.3 | 9.4 | 5.3 | 3.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 10.3 | 48.8 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 47 | 36 | 23 | 21 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 36 | 47 | 26 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 212.4 | 226.6 | 219.8 | 242.3 | 287.7 | 328.2 | 332.1 | 309.2 | 271.6 | 311.4 | 269.2 | 214.3 | 3,224.8 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 63 | 71 | 59 | 63 | 70 | 80 | 80 | 77 | 74 | 87 | 82 | 65 | 72 |
| Source: Meteorological Association of Charnea | |||||||||||||
Districts
Agnannet is divided into four quadrants, known as the four quarters of Agnannet, corresponding to the cardinal directions. These are Afalla the northern quadrant, Tegetan the eastern quadrant, the southern quadrant of Ajuss, and Ateram the western quadrant of the city. The four quadrants meet at the center of the city, where the Palace district and the Old City are found. The city is bisected east to west by the Timɣar Amejj, the central axis of transit across the city.
Demographics
Economy
The city of Agnannet is the central hub of the Charnean political system, the country's single largest population center and the base of operations for most of its major firms. Consequently, the city has become the heart of the Charnean economy. Since its foundation, Agnannet has prospered from the trans-Ninvite trade as one of the main interconnections between southern and northern Scipia. This remains the case in the modern day, as Agnannet has transformed into the central hub of all land and air traffic across Charnea and by extension central Scipia. This status as the heart of Charnean logistics remains the basis of the economy of Agnannet, sustaining its key manufacturing and service sectors. Agnannet has been the premiere center of production in the country long before the industrialization of Charnea, producing metal weapons and tools, clothing, furniture, and serving as a central point of processing and distribution for the valuable trade commodities of the area such as salt, gold and Kermes dye. This role as a processing and refining center for commodities from across the desert expanded following the late 19th century mining boom in Charnea enabled by the advent of the desert railroads which expanded access to mineral rich but isolated and inhospitable regions of Charnea. The first centers for the production of steel, refined copper and aluminum, as well as the first petroleum refineries were established in Agnannet with their supplies of raw material coming in through the railways and oil pipelines carrying precious substances from the resource fields of the Ninva desert.
Over the first half of the 20th century, Agnannet became the forward edge of the modernization of the Charnean economy with the establishment and expansion of the advanced manufacturing industries. This began in the oil industry, with the refineries built across the city over the 1920s and 30s as well as the oil fields which supplied them becoming nationalized in 1945 under COPEC, producing a wide variety of refined petrochemicals. This would later lead to the creation of the Charnean plastics industry dominated by Plexico in the mid 1960s, with both the main COPEC facilities and the key Plexico plastics factories established in Agnannet. The manufacturing industry in Agnannet would also diversify into the business of producing metal components using the mineral resources already being processed for export in Agnannet and the surrounding towns across Achra. The industrialization of the city would continue in this pattern, exploiting the resources already to the local market due to the Agnannet's status as a transport and logistics hub to establish more complex economic activities, with further economic expansion benefitting from the banks, roads, schools and administrative infrastructure already put in place to sustain previous developments. The pattern of development of Agnannet would subsequently be copied by the smaller Charnean cities such as Azut, Ekelhoc and Tanitnet following suit in the footsteps of the capital.
Agnannet's internal economy still retains many of the old fixtures of the city's industries, producing textiles and clothing, furniture and other domestic products using traditional methods primarily for sale to other residents of the city rather than for the export market. Novelties, pieces of art and souvenirs are also significant craft industries in Agnannet, primarily serving the growing market of tourists visiting the city, breathing new life in the dozens of Sooqs found in all the regions of the city and most of all the Great Sooq in the Old City, which had previously declined due to the flight of the lower and middle class population from central Agnannet to the surrounding wards. While tourism began primarily in the form of sightseers visiting the pyramids and other historical landmarks of the Charnean capital, it has gradually transformed into a more diversified economy with the growth of the large casino resorts of Agnannet turning hospitality and the restaurant industry from secondary activities to major fixtures of the city's economy. In the 21st century, these service industries have continued to expand and have outpaced the growth of the yet dominant manufacturing firms established in the city, with significant financial, real estate and entertainment firms beginning to appear over the past decade in the desert metropolis.
Education
Healthcare
Transportation
Timɣar Amejj
The "Great Artery" of Agnannet was built in 1890 to connect the competing Great Tenere and Agnannet Central railway hubs on opposite sides of the city, and would quickly become the central axis of the modern city. The Timɣar Amejj was originally a simple rail connection to link up the disconnected rail hubs by cutting directly through the old city and Palace district. However, the corridor would eventually be widened with highway-style roadways built to either side of it and a raised track for the Agnannet light rail and tram service to run over top of the heavy rail of the original line below. As the city industrialized, the significance of the Timɣar Amejj as an urban freight line and central conduit for general transportation skyrocketed, with most businesses and factories setting up as close to the Great Artery as possible to gain easy access for its goods and input resources to be delivered and carried off, as well as to facilitate the movement of the workforce to and from the factories. Taken as a whole, the Timɣar Amejj is one of the highest volume transit routes anywhere in the world, transporting millions of people and thousands of tons of goods.
Public Transit
The Agnannet public transportation system, centered on the Great Tenere and Agnannet Central train stations as well as the Citadel transit hub, consists of a network of metros, light rail and bus lines permeating the 75 districts of the city. Each of the four quarters of the city is traversed from end to end by at least one superexpress metro line with numerous tributary lines which run between stations along the superexpress line and outlying neighborhoods across the ward, in addition to the local trains running along the same tracks and tunnels as the ward's superexpress line. The network of local bus lines, express BRT systems and the Agnannet Light Rail network provide further coverage across the districts where the relatively limited tunnels and raised platforms of the metro system do not reach and generally provide wider coverage within a given ward while the metro system provides long distance transport across the city with lower transit times and fewer transfers making it ideal for commuters traveling from peripheral neighborhoods in outer Agnannet to their jobs in the city center or the commuter centers of their ward.
Railroads
The city of Agnannet is the junction point for the Great Scipian Railway, the Ninvite Periclean Railway and the Agala-Agnannet Railway. The Great Scipian and Agala-Agnannet railways connect at the Agnannet Central train station in the eastern Tegetan quarter, while the terminus of the Ninvite Periclean railway and the Agnannet-Ekelhoc line is the Great Tenere station located in the opposite side of the city in Ataram. The two major rail hubs of the city are connected by the Timɣar Amejj. The Great Scipian Railway connects the Ninva desert and the major Charnean cities to destinations in East Scipia, principally in Alanahr, with Agnannet as its western terminus. The Ninvite Periclean and Agala-Agnannet railway are both north-south rail axes passing through Agnannet and can be considered northern and southern extensions of a combined trans-Scipian railway linked together by the Timɣar Amejj, with the Agala-Agnannet extending south towards Itayana and the Ninvite Periclean traveling north before branching off near the borders of Talahara and Tyreseia to join with the railways in those nations. Agnannet is also the hub for numerous regional rail lines connecting outlying communities in Achra and some of the neighboring provinces to the Agnannet metropolis. Western regional lines primarily connect at the Great Tenere station, with eastern lines linking up to the corresponding Agnannet Central station.
Airports
The main air travel hub in Charnea is Agnannet International Airport, located far to the northeast of the city.