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| caption    = Kolodorian infantry during the [[Radstadt Campaign]].
| caption    = '''Clockwise from top:''' Tairngiric infantry during the opening offensives; Glasic troops depart from an APC; Kolodorian mechanized infantry; Anglian soldier on a captured Kolodorian tank; Kolodorian heavy artillery in Tír an Crainn
| date        = 11 April 1975 - 4 October 1980
| date        = 11 April 1975 - 4 June 1980
| place      = [[Kolodoria]] </br> [[Tír Tairngire]] </br> [[Tír an Crainn]]
| place      = Central Vinya
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| combatant1  = {{flagicon image|FlagKolodoria.png|22px}}[[Kolodoria]] </br> {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Polvokia.png|22px}} [[Polvokia]]
| combatant1  = {{flagicon image|Kolodorian_Flag.png|22px}} [[Kolodoria]] </br> {{flagicon image|VyzhvanFlag.png|22px}} [[Vyzhva (Septentrion)|Vyzhva]]
| combatant2  = {{flagicon image|TyranFlag.jpg|22px}} [[New Tyran]] </br> {{flagicon image|TG_Flag.png|22px}} [[Tír Glas]]
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'''Supported by:'''<br>
* {{flagicon image|Yugoslovenski.png|22px}} [[Sebrenskiya]]
* {{flag|Letnia}}
* {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Polvokia.png|22px}} [[Polvokia]]  
* {{flag|Menghe}}
| combatant2  = '''Vinyan Coalition'''<br>{{flagicon image|TT_Flag.png|22px}} Selnoa </br> {{flagicon image|TC_Flag.png|22px}} Crainn </br> {{flagicon image|TG_Flag.png|22px}} [[Tír Glas|Banbha]] </br> {{flagicon image|Fēderæt Fȳrēþel long flag.png|22px}} [[Federated Fire Territories]] </br>{{flagicon image|TyranFlag.jpg|22px}} [[New Tyran|Anglia]] </br> {{flagicon image|TE_Flag.png|22px}} Livonia </br> {{flagicon image|Dayaflag.png|22px}} [[Dayashina]] </br> {{flag|Hallia}} </br> {{flag|Themiclesia}}
| combatant3  =  
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| commander1  = {{flagicon image|FlagKolodoria.png|22px}} [[Aleksis Kraulis]] </br> {{flagicon image|FlagKolodoria.png|22px}} Jazeps Buļs  
| commander1  = {{flagicon image|Kolodorian_Flag.png|22px}} [[Aleksis Kraulis]] </br> {{flagicon image|Kolodorian_Flag.png|22px}} Jazeps Buļs </br> {{flagicon image|Kolodorian_Flag.png|22px}} [[Oktavians Zvinelis]] </br> {{flagicon image|Yugoslovenski.png|22px}} Branislav Župan </br> {{flagicon image|Yugoslovenski.png|22px}} Antonija Grbić </br> {{flagicon image|Yugoslovenski.png|22px}} Isidora Kovačević </br> {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Polvokia.png|22px}} Barda Ulušun
| commander2  = {{flagicon image|TyranFlag.jpg|22px}} [[Andrew Forster]] </br> {{flagicon image|TyranFlag.jpg|22px}} [[Robert Hurst]] </br> {{flagicon image|TG_Flag.png|22px}} King [[Henry_II_(Septentrion)|Henry II]] </br> {{flagicon image|TG_Flag.png|22px}} [[Marcus Heffernan]]
| commander2  = {{flagicon image|TyranFlag.jpg|22px}} [[Andrew Forster]] </br> {{flagicon image|TyranFlag.jpg|22px}} [[Robert Hurst]] </br> {{flagicon image|TG_Flag.png|22px}} King [[Henry_II_(Septentrion)|Henry II]] </br> {{flagicon image|TT_Flag.png|22px}} [[William Berrington ]] </br> {{flagicon image|TC_Flag.png|22px}} [[Thomas Kilbride]] </br> {{flagicon image|TG_Flag.png|22px}} [[Marcus Heffernan]]  
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| strength1  = {{flagicon image|FlagKolodoria.png|22px}} 3,500,000 </br> {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Polvokia.png|22px}} 15,000
| strength1  = '''Peak Strength:''' </br> {{flagicon image|Kolodorian_Flag.png|22px}} 3,500,000 </br> {{flagicon image|VyzhvanFlag.png|22px}} 1,000,000
| strength2  =  {{flagicon image|TG_Flag.png|22px}} 2,300,000  
| strength2  = '''Peak Strength:''' </br> {{flagicon image|TT_Flag.png|22px}} 627,591 </br> {{flagicon image|Fēderæt Fȳrēþel long flag.png|22px}} 500,000 </br> {{flagicon image|TC_Flag.png|22px}} 488,127 </br> {{flagicon image|TG_Flag.png|22px}} 290,552 </br> {{flagicon image|TyranFlag.jpg|22px}} 75,000 </br> {{flagicon image|Dayaflag.png|22px}} 100,000 </br> {{flagicon image|TE_Flag.png|22px}} 7,773 </br> {{flagicon image|TF_Flag.png|22px}} 3,731 </br> {{flagicon image|CF_Flag.png|22px}} 2,226 </br> {{flagicon|Hallia}} 200,000 </br>{{flagicon|Themiclesia}} 45,000
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| casualties1 = 550,000 killed </br> 1,500,000 wounded  
| casualties1 = 650,000 killed </br> 1,700,000 wounded  
| casualties2 = 350,000 killed </br> 950,000 wounded
| casualties2 = 500,000 killed </br> 1,400,000 wounded
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The '''Vinyan War''' (Kolodorian: ''Vinija Karš'') was a {{wp|war}} between [[Kolodoria]] (with the support of [[Polvokia]]) and the [[Anglo-Ivernic Coalition]] composed of [[Tír Glas]], [[Anglia and Lechernt]], and the other Ivernic states. The war began on 10 April 1975 when Kolodoria invaded [[Tír Tairngire]] following decades of border disputes and tension.  
The '''Vinyan War''' (Kolodorian: ''Vinija Karš'', Fyrish: ''Wīnyawig'', Ivernic: ''Cogadh Vinyan'', Hallian: ''Vinyan Sota'') was a conflict fought between the multinational Vinyan Coalition against [[Kolodoria]] and [[Vyzhva (Septentrion)|Vyzhva]]. The war began on 11 April 1975 when Kolodoria invaded Selonia with the intent of capturing the disputed territory of Zavijava, but expanded following Koldoria's continued incursion into the rest of Selonia, triggering intervention from a multitude of foreign powers including Banbha, [[Federated Fire Territories|Fyrland]], [[Dayashina]], [[New Tyran|Anglia]], and the Hallian Commonwealth, which in turn led to the intervention of Vyzhva on the side of Kolodoria. Kolodoria was supported by various states including [[Sebrenskiya]], [[Letnia]], [[Polvokia]], and [[Menghe]]. The fighting ended following the signing of a peace treaty following negotiations in neutral [[Ostland]].


At the height of the [[Anglian Empire]], the region known as [[Zavijava]] came under Anglian control but was inhabited primarily by ethnic Kolodorians.
Zavijava was a historical region of Kolodoria that had been conquered by the Anglian Empire during its colonization of central Vinya. The [[Confederation of Kolodoria]] attempted to unsuccessfully recapture Zavijava during the [[War of Sylvan Succession]]. Following the [[Northern War]] (1940-1944) Kolodoria underwent a communist revolution in 1954, becoming the Socialist Republic under the leadership of Premier [[Aleksis Kraulis]]. Although Kraulis publicly supported the decolonization and independence of the Ivernic states in the post-[[Pan-Septentrion War]] he also lobbied heavily for the return of Zavijava to Kolodorian control from newly independent
Tír Tairngire was granted independence in 1968 from the Anglian Empire, but retained control of Zavijava. The establishment of the Socialist Republic of Kolodoria in 1954 and the subsequent growth of Kolodoria as a major power in Vinya led to increased tensions between the two states, in large part due to the nationalist and expansionist desires of Kolodorian dictator [[Aleksis Kraulis]]. Beginning in 1972 Kraulis began lobbying the Tairngiric government for a peaceful transfer of control of Zavijava to Kolodoria. While the Tairngiric government did not completely disavow the idea, suspicions around Kolodoria's communist government and the trustworthiness of Kraulis undermined negotiations, and after dragging on for two years Kolodoria withdrew from the negotiations and began planning an invasion.  
Selonia while promoting communist activities across Vinya. This drew Kolodoria into a cold War with the [[Federated Fire Territories]] throughout the 1960s and 70s over Eagla and Isperia as both sides backed up communist and anti-communist forces in a bid for ideological influence in central Vinya. The years leading up to the conflict was a steady escalation of violence as Fyrland engaged in hostilities against separatist and communist-aligned forces across central Vinya, while Kolodoria engaged in covert support of socialist groups both through arms and financial backing, with the latter especially common in the democratic states of Ivernic Vinya.


Kolodoria invaded Tír Tairngire in 1975 and made rapid progress as the much larger [[Kolodorian People's Defense Forces]] routed the [[Tairngiric Armed Forces]] in a series of clashes in Zavijava. The invasion prompted condemnation by Tír Glas, Anglia and Lechernt, and the other Galenic states, whom declared war on Kolodoria and deployed. By May Kolodorian forces had seized nearly all of Zavijava, however their rapid success led Kraulis to believe that even more territory could be gained and he ordered the KPDF to push even farther south. Through the summer Kolodorian forces seized [[Ballindine]] and [[Lahardane]], but were halted by a combined [[Anglo-Ivernic]] forces outside [[Knightstown]] and [[Newtown]]. The Anglo-Ivernic Coalition would then push Kolodorian forces back across the entire front, and by December 1975 had restored the pre-war borders.
By 1974 the Selonian government had largely shut down negotiations with Kolodoria over the return of Zavijava, prompting Kolodoria to begin preparing to take the region by force. On 11 April 1975 the Kolodorian military (officially the [[Kolodorian People's Defense Forces]]) invaded Zavijava, formally starting the war. Kolodoria seized Zavijava in two weeks against outnumbered Selonian defenders, but the rapid success led Kraulis to order the KPDF to seize as much of Selonia as possible. Following the Kolodorian invasion, communist revolutionary forces in Isperia launched their own uprising, seizing control of northern Isperia and establishing the People's Republic of Isperia.  The expanded invasion prompted intervention by Banbha and the Ivernic states, followed by Fyrland who joined over concerns of communist expansion following the Isperian revolution. The anti-Kolodorian coalition, later officially titled as the Vinyan Coalition, was later joined by Anglia, Dayashina, the Hallian Commonwealth, and [[Themiclesia]]. Kolodoria received material and political support from [[Letnia]] and [[Sebrenskiya]], and from its ideological kin in [[Menghe]] and [[Polvokia]]  


Believing it necessary to destroy further Kolodorian ability to wage war, the Coalition then invaded the southern Jedorian regions which held much of Kolodoria's industry and agriculture. By July 1976 the Coalition had captured Dranga, Elgin, Strana Mecthy and Leoben and were threatening to cross the [[Luminovian Canal]] the heart of Kolodoria. In response, Kolodoria opened a second front in [[Tír an Crainn]], invading the Galenic nation on 19 July. Caught off guard, the Coalition was forced to divert much needed manpower and supplies to the newly formed [[Crainnic Front]], allowing the Kolodorians to reinforce their lines in the east. In August they launched a major counter-offensive in Jedoria, and proceeded to drive Coalition forces south in a series of hard fought campaigns. By January 1977 the Kolodorians had recaptured Zavijava but were halted in the central highlands of Tír Tairngire. The situation on the Crainnic Front continued to swing back and forth until the summer of 1977, at which point the entire war settled into a stalemate, with both sides launching large scale but ultimately unsuccessful offensives.
Within three months of the start of the war Coalition forces began massing in Selonia and halted the Kolodorian invasion. By the winter of 1975 the Kolodorian offensive had collapsed and was followed by a Coalition buildup and counter-offensive into Isperia. By Fall 1976 the Coalition had driven communist forces in Isperia back while halting Kolodorian offensive operations into Selonia. Facing failure on both fronts, Kolodoria began mass mobilization of its populace, raising over two million men in uniform amid large scale delivery of supplies and military hardware from Letnia. Over the winter of 1976-1977 Vyzhva mobilized its armed forces and made preparations to join the war to prevent a potential Kolodorian collapse. An especially harsh winter largely halted combat operations over the front, amid growing logistical demands on behalf of the Coalition forces. In the spring of 1977 Kolodoria and Vyzhva launched a series of offensives, invading Juverna, Arasindey, and Fáill. Vyzhvan forces conquered Juverna and crossed into Fáill while reinforcing Isperian communist forces by Autumn 1977 communist forces had driven the Coalition back across the Isperian and Selonian fronts. Following these developments the Banbhan government invoked support from Dayashina, the Hallian Commonwealth, and Themiclesia.


Ceasefire negotiations began in late 1978 but dragged on for over a year as both sides attempted to leverage their position by military success on the battlefield, which resulted in tens of thousands of casualties on each side. By early 1980 Coalition forces had driven the Kolodorians back to the northern mountains of Tír an Crainn, but attempts to dislodge Kolodoria from Zavijava failed. A peace agreement was finally signed in 1980 following mediation by [[Themiclesia]], and the war officially ended on 4 October. Per the terms of the armistice, Kolodoria gained control of Zavijava, fulfilling the original goal of the invasion but was forced to withdraw all other military forces from territory occupied during the war.  
By the winter of 1977-1978 the war had effectively divided into three fronts; the mechanized Selonian front, the littoral central front, and the mountainous Crainnic front. Following the [[Sieuxerr-Tyrannian Conflict of 1978]], which brought about the withdrawal from Anglia from the conflict, Kolodoria attempted a major offensive on the Selonian front which was met with heavy losses. Despite the departure of Anglian forces, the Coalition launched its own counter-offensive which pushed back exhausted Kolodorian forces into Kolodoria itself by winter 1978. By spring 1979 however extended supply lines and renewed Kolodorian forces pushed back the Coalition invasion, resulting in the capture of Zavijava again by Kolodoria in the summer of 1979. Compared to the Selonian front, the Crainnic front had largely seen steady Coalition gains between 1978-1979. In the winter of 1979-1980 Coalition forces in the central front launched a major offensive across the Sodor Firth into Juverna, entrapping Vyzvhan forces in the Targan exclave.  


The bloodiest war fought in Vinya since the [[Northern War]], the Vinyan War had a severe political and psychological impact on Vinya and the states involved. Kolodoria's war effort incurred billions in debt, but convinced Kraulis of Kolodoria's ability to take what it wanted through military force, leading to later conflicts against [[Vyzhva (Septentrion)|Vyzhva]] and the [[Cherniyan War]]. The Vinyan War would profoundly impact the development of the Vinyan Defense Union and the development of the Ivernic nations post-independence.  
Negotiations to end the conflict had begun after the nuclear crisis of 1978 but did not gain traction until the winter of 1979-1980 as the strategic considerations for both sides emerged. The growing threat of a Vyzhvan collapse on the communist side, and the daunting task of retaking Zavijava once more from Kolodoria for the Coalition, provided an impetus for negotiations that were carried out in neutral Ostland. The ensuing treaty was signed on 1 June 1980 and went into affect on 4 June; Kolodoria retained control of Zavijava and Vyzhva retained the exclave of Targan in exchange for the dissolution of the People's Republic of Isperia. The Vinyan War was the deadliest conflict in [[Septentrion]] since the Pan-Septentrion War; military casualties amounted to more than one million killed and more than three million wounded, while an estimated 3.5-4.5 million civilians were killed and wounded. Both sides claimed victory following the conflict, though active dispute remains among academic circles regarding the true winners of the war. Modern historians generally believe that the Vinyan War was the last major victory for international communism; relations between Vyzhva and Kolodoria declined less than a decade after the Vinyan War ended, leading to the [[Kolodorian-Vyzhvan War]] breaking out in 1985. Despite residual tensions between the member states of the Coalition, the conflict is generally considered to have been an inspiration for the development of a pan-Vinyan economic and political community. The effects of the war on its belligerents and their cultures is widespread, with more than a thousand published works in both fiction and non-fiction media pertaining to the conflict.


==Background==
[[Category:Septentrion]]
 
==Course of the war==
 
==Characteristics==
 
==Impact and Legacy==

Latest revision as of 13:47, 23 November 2023

Vinyan War
Vinyan War Collage.jpg
Clockwise from top: Tairngiric infantry during the opening offensives; Glasic troops depart from an APC; Kolodorian mechanized infantry; Anglian soldier on a captured Kolodorian tank; Kolodorian heavy artillery in Tír an Crainn
Date11 April 1975 - 4 June 1980
Location
Central Vinya
Result Peace Treaty
Kolodoria annexes Zavijava
Belligerents

Kolodoria
Vyzhva


Supported by:

Vinyan Coalition
Selnoa
Crainn
Banbha
Federated Fire Territories
Anglia
Livonia
Dayashina
 Hallia
 Themiclesia
Commanders and leaders
Aleksis Kraulis
Jazeps Buļs
Oktavians Zvinelis
Branislav Župan
Antonija Grbić
Isidora Kovačević
Barda Ulušun
Andrew Forster
Robert Hurst
King Henry II
William Berrington
Thomas Kilbride
Marcus Heffernan
Strength
Peak Strength:
3,500,000
1,000,000
Peak Strength:
627,591
500,000
488,127
290,552
75,000
100,000
7,773
3,731
2,226
Hallia 200,000
Themiclesia 45,000
Casualties and losses
650,000 killed
1,700,000 wounded
500,000 killed
1,400,000 wounded

The Vinyan War (Kolodorian: Vinija Karš, Fyrish: Wīnyawig, Ivernic: Cogadh Vinyan, Hallian: Vinyan Sota) was a conflict fought between the multinational Vinyan Coalition against Kolodoria and Vyzhva. The war began on 11 April 1975 when Kolodoria invaded Selonia with the intent of capturing the disputed territory of Zavijava, but expanded following Koldoria's continued incursion into the rest of Selonia, triggering intervention from a multitude of foreign powers including Banbha, Fyrland, Dayashina, Anglia, and the Hallian Commonwealth, which in turn led to the intervention of Vyzhva on the side of Kolodoria. Kolodoria was supported by various states including Sebrenskiya, Letnia, Polvokia, and Menghe. The fighting ended following the signing of a peace treaty following negotiations in neutral Ostland.

Zavijava was a historical region of Kolodoria that had been conquered by the Anglian Empire during its colonization of central Vinya. The Confederation of Kolodoria attempted to unsuccessfully recapture Zavijava during the War of Sylvan Succession. Following the Northern War (1940-1944) Kolodoria underwent a communist revolution in 1954, becoming the Socialist Republic under the leadership of Premier Aleksis Kraulis. Although Kraulis publicly supported the decolonization and independence of the Ivernic states in the post-Pan-Septentrion War he also lobbied heavily for the return of Zavijava to Kolodorian control from newly independent Selonia while promoting communist activities across Vinya. This drew Kolodoria into a cold War with the Federated Fire Territories throughout the 1960s and 70s over Eagla and Isperia as both sides backed up communist and anti-communist forces in a bid for ideological influence in central Vinya. The years leading up to the conflict was a steady escalation of violence as Fyrland engaged in hostilities against separatist and communist-aligned forces across central Vinya, while Kolodoria engaged in covert support of socialist groups both through arms and financial backing, with the latter especially common in the democratic states of Ivernic Vinya.

By 1974 the Selonian government had largely shut down negotiations with Kolodoria over the return of Zavijava, prompting Kolodoria to begin preparing to take the region by force. On 11 April 1975 the Kolodorian military (officially the Kolodorian People's Defense Forces) invaded Zavijava, formally starting the war. Kolodoria seized Zavijava in two weeks against outnumbered Selonian defenders, but the rapid success led Kraulis to order the KPDF to seize as much of Selonia as possible. Following the Kolodorian invasion, communist revolutionary forces in Isperia launched their own uprising, seizing control of northern Isperia and establishing the People's Republic of Isperia. The expanded invasion prompted intervention by Banbha and the Ivernic states, followed by Fyrland who joined over concerns of communist expansion following the Isperian revolution. The anti-Kolodorian coalition, later officially titled as the Vinyan Coalition, was later joined by Anglia, Dayashina, the Hallian Commonwealth, and Themiclesia. Kolodoria received material and political support from Letnia and Sebrenskiya, and from its ideological kin in Menghe and Polvokia

Within three months of the start of the war Coalition forces began massing in Selonia and halted the Kolodorian invasion. By the winter of 1975 the Kolodorian offensive had collapsed and was followed by a Coalition buildup and counter-offensive into Isperia. By Fall 1976 the Coalition had driven communist forces in Isperia back while halting Kolodorian offensive operations into Selonia. Facing failure on both fronts, Kolodoria began mass mobilization of its populace, raising over two million men in uniform amid large scale delivery of supplies and military hardware from Letnia. Over the winter of 1976-1977 Vyzhva mobilized its armed forces and made preparations to join the war to prevent a potential Kolodorian collapse. An especially harsh winter largely halted combat operations over the front, amid growing logistical demands on behalf of the Coalition forces. In the spring of 1977 Kolodoria and Vyzhva launched a series of offensives, invading Juverna, Arasindey, and Fáill. Vyzhvan forces conquered Juverna and crossed into Fáill while reinforcing Isperian communist forces by Autumn 1977 communist forces had driven the Coalition back across the Isperian and Selonian fronts. Following these developments the Banbhan government invoked support from Dayashina, the Hallian Commonwealth, and Themiclesia.

By the winter of 1977-1978 the war had effectively divided into three fronts; the mechanized Selonian front, the littoral central front, and the mountainous Crainnic front. Following the Sieuxerr-Tyrannian Conflict of 1978, which brought about the withdrawal from Anglia from the conflict, Kolodoria attempted a major offensive on the Selonian front which was met with heavy losses. Despite the departure of Anglian forces, the Coalition launched its own counter-offensive which pushed back exhausted Kolodorian forces into Kolodoria itself by winter 1978. By spring 1979 however extended supply lines and renewed Kolodorian forces pushed back the Coalition invasion, resulting in the capture of Zavijava again by Kolodoria in the summer of 1979. Compared to the Selonian front, the Crainnic front had largely seen steady Coalition gains between 1978-1979. In the winter of 1979-1980 Coalition forces in the central front launched a major offensive across the Sodor Firth into Juverna, entrapping Vyzvhan forces in the Targan exclave.

Negotiations to end the conflict had begun after the nuclear crisis of 1978 but did not gain traction until the winter of 1979-1980 as the strategic considerations for both sides emerged. The growing threat of a Vyzhvan collapse on the communist side, and the daunting task of retaking Zavijava once more from Kolodoria for the Coalition, provided an impetus for negotiations that were carried out in neutral Ostland. The ensuing treaty was signed on 1 June 1980 and went into affect on 4 June; Kolodoria retained control of Zavijava and Vyzhva retained the exclave of Targan in exchange for the dissolution of the People's Republic of Isperia. The Vinyan War was the deadliest conflict in Septentrion since the Pan-Septentrion War; military casualties amounted to more than one million killed and more than three million wounded, while an estimated 3.5-4.5 million civilians were killed and wounded. Both sides claimed victory following the conflict, though active dispute remains among academic circles regarding the true winners of the war. Modern historians generally believe that the Vinyan War was the last major victory for international communism; relations between Vyzhva and Kolodoria declined less than a decade after the Vinyan War ended, leading to the Kolodorian-Vyzhvan War breaking out in 1985. Despite residual tensions between the member states of the Coalition, the conflict is generally considered to have been an inspiration for the development of a pan-Vinyan economic and political community. The effects of the war on its belligerents and their cultures is widespread, with more than a thousand published works in both fiction and non-fiction media pertaining to the conflict.