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[[File:Arbo-Olav den helliges fall i slaget på Stiklestad.jpg|right|thumb|230px|[[Gorm the Elder]] conquered the {{wp|Gutes}} in | [[File:Arbo-Olav den helliges fall i slaget på Stiklestad.jpg|right|thumb|230px|[[Gorm the Elder]] conquered the {{wp|Gutes}} in the [[Städ War]], integrating them into the newly-established [[First Kingdom of Geatland]]. ]] | ||
By the fall of the Solarian Empire in the 5th century AD, the Geats had succeeded in becoming the {{wp|hegemony|hegemon}} of the other tribes on the Geatish Islands. The beginning of the 8th century AD marked the beginning of the [[Age of Ghaillish Piracy]]. Ghaillish {{wp|pirate|pirates}} from modern-day [[Caldia]] began conducting raids across [[Gormö]], establishing a Gaillish raider {{wp|kingdom}} on the island's north side by the 9th century. These pirates, who likewise raided the Euclean coast from [[Werania]] as far down to modern-day [[Estmere]], routed the poorly equipped and technologically inferior Weranic tribes. | By the fall of the Solarian Empire in the 5th century AD, the Geats had succeeded in becoming the {{wp|hegemony|hegemon}} of the other tribes on the Geatish Islands. The beginning of the 8th century AD marked the beginning of the [[Age of Ghaillish Piracy]]. Ghaillish {{wp|pirate|pirates}} from modern-day [[Caldia]] began conducting raids across [[Gormö]], establishing a Gaillish raider {{wp|kingdom}} on the island's north side by the 9th century. These pirates, who likewise raided the Euclean coast from [[Werania]] as far down to modern-day [[Estmere]], routed the poorly equipped and technologically inferior Weranic tribes. | ||
Revision as of 13:28, 24 June 2020
Geatish Realm Götiska riket | |
|---|---|
Anthem: "Hör, o Nordmän!" (Hear, O Norsemen!) | |
 Location of Geatland (in green), within Euclea (grey) | |
| Capital and largest city | Blåstad |
| Official languages | Geatish |
| Recognised regional languages | Azmaran |
| Religion | Church of Geatland |
| Demonym(s) | Geats |
| Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
• Monarch | Brunhild II |
• Premier | Karl Nilsson Jung |
| FOLK-Fråmat! | |
| Legislature | Riksdag |
| Landsting | |
| Folkting | |
| Unification | |
| 944 | |
| 1057 | |
| 5 August 1545 | |
• Annexation of the Line Islands | 26 March 1855 |
• Current Constitution | 13 July 1867 |
| Area | |
• Total | 90,819 km2 (35,065 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• 2019 estimate |  6,192,106 |
• 2017 census | 6,101,832 |
• Density | 67.1/km2 (173.8/sq mi) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2018 estimate |
• Total | $307.1 billion |
• Per capita | $49,588 |
| GDP (nominal) | estimate |
• Total | $262.675 billion |
• Per capita | $42,421 |
| Gini (2017) | 40.1 medium |
| HDI (2017) | 0.911 very high |
| Currency | Geatish krona |
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy (AD) |
| Driving side | left |
Geatland (Geatish: Gotland), officially the Geatish Realm, is a Euclean island country located in the North Sea. Geatland's territory comprises the Geatish Islands and the Line Islands. Its capital and largest city is Blåstad.
Geatland has an area of 90,819 square kilometers (35,065 sq mi) and a population of 6,192,106 people. Because Geatland is an island, its long shoreline affords it more mild temperatures than other countries on its latitude, though it may be much cooler in midland areas. The country is known for being mountaineous.
Geatland is a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The current monarch and head of state is Brunhild II, who has been on the throne since 1966.
Weranic peoples came to settle the Geatish Islands in the 3rd century BC. The largest and most prominent of these Weranic tribes was the Ancient Geats, who subdued and conquered their neighbors. The First Kingdom of Geatland was established in 944. Geatland was involved in various North Sea Empires until the 14th century AD. After the collapse of the North Sea Empires, the Geatish Islands were politically fractured until their unification in 1545. Around this time, Geatland colonized Eldmark. Following King Rudolf's War, Geatland annexed the Line Islands from Azmara in 1855. The rise of republicanism and democracy in continental Euclea triggered the Engström Revolution. Though the revolution was unsuccesful in deposing the monarchy, it resulted in the writing of a constitution and democratic reforms that ended absolutism. Geatland sided with Functionalist Gaullica during the Great War. Geatish governments after the Great War inagurated an expansive welfare state, which persists in most forms today.
Geatland is a propserous liberal democracy. It is a member of the Community of Nations, ECDTO, the Northern Forum, the AEDC, and the ITO, among others.
Etymology and terminology
"Geatland" (Gotland in the Geatish language) is the standard short name for the Geatish Realm in Estmerish. The name refers to the lands of the Ancient Geats, one of the most prominent Sea Weranic tribes that migrated to the Geatish Islands as early as the third century before Jesus Sotiras. The standard adjective for things related to Geatland is Geatish, while people of Geatish origin are referred to as Geats. The denonym "Geats" traces its origin to Proto-Weranic *Gautoz, the exact etymology of which is unclear. The modern-day Geats draw their origins from the Ancient Geats as well as other tribal groups, such as the Gutes. However, since the Ancient Geats were the most powerful of the tribes and subdued the rest, their name survives in the country's name today.
Geatland has traditionally been referred to under different names. In Estmerish, it was common to refer to the country asWedera or Wederia, from the Old Estmerish Wederas ("Geats"). Solarians referred to the Geatish Islands as Gothia, again after the Ancient Geat tribe. This name survives in Gaullican, in which Geatland is la Gothie.
The correct formal name for Geatland is the "Geatish Realm". The "Kingdom of Geatland" may be used in the place of the Geatish Realm, though this is typically seen as incorrect. This is because the Kingdom of Geatland historically only refers to the Geatish Islands and neglects Geatish sovereignty over the Line Islands. The Greater Geatish Realm may also refer to the extent of Geatish colonalism in North Asteria, particularly over Eldmark and Imagua and the Assimas.
History
Prehistory
The first human settlers on the Line Islands, Geatland's easternmost territories, are observed to have made landfall around the 7th millenium B.C. Most of these peoples were hunter-gatherers and fishermen from what is today Azmara.
Human settlement on the Geatish Islands was considerably later given the islands distance from mainland Euclea. The first attested evidence of habitation dates back to 1,500 B.C. The Geadish Islands were attested on some maps as early as 900 BC. Around the third or second century B.C., Sea Weranic tribes settled the islands. Some archaeologists dispute this date, however, and instead argue for habitation as early as the 3rd millenium BC. Little is known about the islands
Solarian chroncilers and historians first make mention of the Geats around 110 AD. Solarian authors took note of the Geats' superiority over the other tribes, notably the Gutes, and their development of advanced naval technology, specifically longships. There are apocryphal accounts detailing the legendary kings of the Geats at this time. The most famous and best documented of these rulers was Alrik, a sea king and the legendary founder of the first major settlements on Gormö, the largest island in the Geatish Islands. Early Geatish socities were ruled by things, which were led by lawspeakers.
The inhabitants of the Geatish Islands were rather secluded and rarely traded with the outside world. If they did, they typically established small communities on the Euclean coast, around modern-day Azmara, Werania, and as far as Estmere to trade hides and ore with the Solarians.
The runic alphabet was developed in the second century AD. Runes would be formally phased out in the 11th century, but they remained in informal use as late as the 18th century.
Middle Ages
By the fall of the Solarian Empire in the 5th century AD, the Geats had succeeded in becoming the hegemon of the other tribes on the Geatish Islands. The beginning of the 8th century AD marked the beginning of the Age of Ghaillish Piracy. Ghaillish pirates from modern-day Caldia began conducting raids across Gormö, establishing a Gaillish raider kingdom on the island's north side by the 9th century. These pirates, who likewise raided the Euclean coast from Werania as far down to modern-day Estmere, routed the poorly equipped and technologically inferior Weranic tribes.
The beginning the First Kingdom of Geatland is somewhat unclear. There had been many kings before the 10th century, legendary or real, who had ascerted control over all of the Geatish tribes, but in practice very few of these claims were borne out. To combat the Ghaillish, various Geatish chiefdoms united under kings.The strongest of these kingdoms were the rulers of Lågland ("The Low Lands"). In 941, Gorm the Elder, king of Lågland, succeeded in convincing holdout Geatish tribes to in the country's south to unite under him. Following a brief war to conquer the Gute tribes, Gorm declared himself the first King of all the Geats in 944. Before his death in 961, Gorm succeeded in diminishing the territory of the Ghaillish raider kingdom in Geatland's north, though it would remain a present force until the 12th century.
Solarian Catholocism was introduced into the Geatish Islands in 839 by Saint Åke, the "apostle of Geatland." Sotirianism became the favored religion of the Geatish aristocracy and merchant class as it afforded them greater connections to continental Euclea. In 1057, king Olaf I was baptized a Sotirian on his ascention to the throne and Geatland became a Sotirian nation. Paganism, however, would continue to be popular among the lower class untill the 14th century.