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==Origins==
==Origins==
[[File:Émile_Durkheim.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Hugues Subercaseaux published two works pertaining to the Euclo-Coian Transition Zone; ''"The Centre of the World"'' (1868) and ''Euclea's Fulcrum: The Transition Zone.'' (1885)]]
[[File:Émile_Durkheim.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Hugues Subercaseaux published two works pertaining to the Euclo-Coian Transition Zone; ''"The Centre of the World"'' (1868) and ''Euclea's Fulcrum: The Transition Zone.'' (1885)]]
The Gaullican Empire's invasion of the Khalij Dynasty in 1814 saw the transferring of the entirety of coastal Tsabara from a Coian state to a Euclean one. For the first time since the Verliquoian Empire lost the territory in an intermittent fashion from the 8th to the 10th centuries, a Euclean power controlled the Coian side of the Aurean Straits. This had succeeded the Gaullican's invasion of Montecara two years prior.
The Gaullican Empire's invasion of the Khalij Dynasty in 1814 saw the transfer of the entirety of coastal Tsabara from a Coian state to a Euclean one. For the first time since the Verliquoian Empire lost the territory in an intermittent fashion from the 8th to the 10th centuries, a Euclean power controlled the Coian side of the Aurean Straits. This had succeeded the Gaullican invasion of Montecara two years prior.


The motivation behind these acquisitions were twofold: primarily, the Empire had been concerned with maintaining their trade links to their possessions and trade partners in southern Coius. Secondly, to weaken the piracy that operated out of the Tsabaran coast that affected these routes.  
The motivation behind these acquisitions was twofold: primarily, the Empire had been concerned with maintaining trade links to its possessions and trade partners in southern Coius. Secondly, its goal was to weaken the pirates that operated out of the Tsabaran coast and which affected these routes.  


Yet, within the Gaullican Elite, much of the land perceived to be "Tsabara" was regarded as historically important to Euclea. The leading theories of the day described the emergence of much of the traditions of the Eucleans originated, either wholly or partly, within this region. The most important of these traditions and ideas always originated back to Sotirianity; arguing that the birthplace of "Euclea's Religion" gave legitimacy to the territory's "otherness" in relation to the rest of Coius. The region was also viewed as integrally "Solarian", as per the ideas of "[[Perpétuation|la perpétuation]]".
Yet, within the Gaullican elite, much of the land perceived to be "Tsabara" was regarded as historically important to Euclea. The leading theories of the day described the emergence of many of the traditions of the Eucleans originated, either wholly or partly, within this region. The most important of these traditions and ideas originated with Sotirianity; arguing that the birthplace of "Euclea's religion" gave legitimacy to the territory's "otherness" in relation to the rest of Coius. The region was also viewed as integrally "Solarian", as per the ideas of "[[Perpétuation|la perpétuation]]".


The historic trade that flowed across the Aurean, as well as the historic migrations of several people and the wars fought across them lent to Subercaseaux the foundations of his ideas on the 'Euclo-Coian Transition Zone', an area of geostrategic, intellectual, historical and cultural importance.  
The historic trade that flowed across the Aurean, as well as the historic migrations of several people and the wars fought across them, lent to Subercaseaux the foundations of his ideas on the "Euclo-Coian Transition Zone", an area of geostrategic, intellectual, historical and cultural importance.  


Further still, portions of Subercaseaux's ideas also stemmed from the beginnings of the formulations of the "Channels of Commerce". With Gaullica securely in possession of both the Aurean and Arucian by the mid 1850s, much of the intellectual elite in Gaullica's naval circles perpetuated the belief of the importance of these channels for the global economy and Gaullica's prestige and power.
Further still, portions of Subercaseaux's ideas stemmed from the beginnings of the formulations of the "Channels of Commerce". With Gaullica securely in possession of both the Aurean and Arucian by the mid-1850s, much of the intellectual elite in Gaullica's naval circles perpetuated the belief of the importance of these channels for the global economy and Gaullica's prestige and power.


==Cultural crossroads==
==Cultural crossroads==

Revision as of 23:29, 29 December 2020

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The boundaries of the transition zone as put forward by Hugues Subercaseaux

The Euclo-Coian Transition Zone (ECTZ; Gaullican: Zone de transition euclo-coïenne), also known as the Intermediate Region and the World River is a historical and political theory originally put forward by Hugues Subercaseaux. Subercaseaux first elaborated on the theory in his 1868 article "The Centre of the World", in which he established the political importance of the straits between the Solarian Sea and the Gulf of Assonaire, and control of the hinterlands on both sides. He would continue on this line of thought in further articles for the Society of Friends of the East, before shifting towards viewing the area as more important intellectually and culturally in his 1885 book Euclea's Fulcrum: The Transition Zone.

Subercaseaux thus saw control of the area as central to Gaullican interests, and his work was viewed positively by the Gaullican elite and intelligentsia of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It provided Silvain D'Aboville and Jean-Baptiste Fouché the intellectual backing for their policies towards Gaullican controlled Tsabara, and the city-state of Montecara, in an attempt to secure the straits for Gaullica.

Gaullica's loss in the Great War saw Subercaseaux's theory discredited both on the right and left of politics, the former criticising it for having over-exaggerated the political dominance assured by the straits, and the latter for having fuelled imperialist and colonialist attitudes resulting in great loss of life. From the 1970s however a revival began under historian Emmanuel Saint-Yves who believed that Subercaseaux's work on the intellectual and cultural aspects of the transition zone had been widely unappreciated. Numerous historians have added to, and revised, Subercaseaux's claims, and have forged close links between the transition zone and the various Rinnovos.

Origins

Hugues Subercaseaux published two works pertaining to the Euclo-Coian Transition Zone; "The Centre of the World" (1868) and Euclea's Fulcrum: The Transition Zone. (1885)

The Gaullican Empire's invasion of the Khalij Dynasty in 1814 saw the transfer of the entirety of coastal Tsabara from a Coian state to a Euclean one. For the first time since the Verliquoian Empire lost the territory in an intermittent fashion from the 8th to the 10th centuries, a Euclean power controlled the Coian side of the Aurean Straits. This had succeeded the Gaullican invasion of Montecara two years prior.

The motivation behind these acquisitions was twofold: primarily, the Empire had been concerned with maintaining trade links to its possessions and trade partners in southern Coius. Secondly, its goal was to weaken the pirates that operated out of the Tsabaran coast and which affected these routes.

Yet, within the Gaullican elite, much of the land perceived to be "Tsabara" was regarded as historically important to Euclea. The leading theories of the day described the emergence of many of the traditions of the Eucleans originated, either wholly or partly, within this region. The most important of these traditions and ideas originated with Sotirianity; arguing that the birthplace of "Euclea's religion" gave legitimacy to the territory's "otherness" in relation to the rest of Coius. The region was also viewed as integrally "Solarian", as per the ideas of "la perpétuation".

The historic trade that flowed across the Aurean, as well as the historic migrations of several people and the wars fought across them, lent to Subercaseaux the foundations of his ideas on the "Euclo-Coian Transition Zone", an area of geostrategic, intellectual, historical and cultural importance.

Further still, portions of Subercaseaux's ideas stemmed from the beginnings of the formulations of the "Channels of Commerce". With Gaullica securely in possession of both the Aurean and Arucian by the mid-1850s, much of the intellectual elite in Gaullica's naval circles perpetuated the belief of the importance of these channels for the global economy and Gaullica's prestige and power.

Cultural crossroads

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Peak extent of Piraean territories and colonies during the Classical period (750 - 200 BCE).

Since the 7th century BCE the Aurean has experienced large levels cultural interaction. The establishment of colonies along both sides of the Aurean by Pirean city states, predominantly Lasithi, would see the beginnings of an interconnected economic, cultural and intellectual network of cities. The Lasithian Golden Age saw the transference of these commodities between the Euclean and the Coian worlds.

Despite the eventual fall of the Lasithian Hegemony their legacy and established cities still lived on. It would not be until the Solarian Empire's conquest of Tsabara that much of the former Piraean cities along the Aurean were actually united under a single polity.

During the reign of the Solarian Empire, Sotirianity would utilise the existing links between the Lasithian cities in the Aurean to create the beginnings of its communities across the Solarian Empire. So prevalent was the lasting legacy of the Piraean colonies that the early Sotirians largely spoke Piraean before Solarian, adopting the term "katholikos" (meaning universal) to describe their church.

Further still, the Eucleans of the medieval era perceived Sotirianity to be a "Euclean religion" yet regarded its foundational area, the Holy Land in and around Adunis, to be distinctly foreign.

In recent times, especially since the beginning of Gaullican colonisation of the region, the coast of Tsabara has become host to a large diversity of peoples. The Eucleans who colonised the Tsabaran coast became politically ingrained and attached to their mother countries, but also became distinct. Following the end of the Great War, the inverse became true, with individuals from the Coian side of the Transition Zone migrating to Euclea.

Intellectual circuit

Migratory convergence zone

Tagamic migration

World river theory

Intermediate region

Legacy

Criticism

Apologetics