Easter Republic
Republic of Wallenland Repúblikà pā Wālolénlòhátoà | |
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1913–1915 | |
Capital | Valhókoà (April 1913-May 1914) b (May-December 1914) c (December 1914-June 1915) |
Common languages | Ońilo Qoati |
Demonym(s) | Wallene |
Government | Federal presidential republic |
President | |
• March 1913-March 1914 (first) | Paulo Robertopāfiolò |
• March-December 1914 | Ronaldinho Oapà'úŕata |
• December 1914-June 1915 (last) | Abel Fernandes |
Vice President | |
• March 1913-May 1915 | Abel Fernandes (first) |
• May-December 1915 | Otto Bartsch (last) |
Legislature | Grand Assembly |
• Upper house | Senate |
• Lower house | Lower Chamber of Wallenland |
History | |
• Easter Uprising | 17 March-23 March, 1913 |
• Formation | March 23, 1913 |
• Surrender of the Southern Army | June 18, 1915 |
• Peace at Sandan Manor & Dissolution | July 25, 1915 |
Today part of | Wallenland |
The Republic of Wallenland, or more commonly referred as the Easter Republic, was a shortlived unrecognized republic in modern-day Wallenland that existed from the 23rd of March, 1913 to the 25th of June, 1915. Formed amidst the Wallene Civil War by a faction in the Liberals referred to as the [[ ]], the group had existed years before as several private clubs, the most prominent being the Lion's Club (Ońilo: Klubà pā Leaò) which formed in 1896 that was held at the House of the Lion in Valhókoà that favoured republicanism and secularisation during a time of growing Christian fundamentalism and the Dominion's enshrining of Catholicism in its constitution. In 1905, the club formed the Lion Party and would dominate Valhókoàn politics for nearly a decade.
At the advent of the Civil War, the Lion Party and other organisations sympathetic to republicanism sided with the Liberals after being promised devolution and a form of government would be established, however, by 1913 the would decide to stage an uprising on Palm Sunday because of the Liberals' inability and losses and the threat of the Conservatives on cities...