Emirate of Abtin
Emirate of Abtin إمارة أبتين Imarat Abtin | |||||||||
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| 1955-1983 | |||||||||
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| Status | Emirate | ||||||||
| Capital | Baykufteh | ||||||||
| Common languages | Official: Khatti Regional: Aýdýari Argian | ||||||||
| Religion | Official: Khasibiyyah Unofficial: Sharafi Bentani Argean Catholic Nusaryian Church of the East | ||||||||
| Government | parliamentary semi-constitutional monarchy (1955-1967) Absolute monarchy (1967-1983) | ||||||||
| Emir | |||||||||
• 1955-1963 | Sulayman al-Khayr | ||||||||
• 1963-1965 | Jalaluddin al-Khayr | ||||||||
• 1967-1983 | Mohammed al-Khayr | ||||||||
| Legislature | National Assembly | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Independence from Vailleux | 3 March 1955 | ||||||||
| 12 April 1955 | |||||||||
• Crown Prince Mohammed's Coup | 10 June 1967 | ||||||||
• Qusayri Highland Campaign | 12 May 1973 | ||||||||
• Marj al-Sultan Accords | 26 January 1983 1983 | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• | 9,842,413 | ||||||||
| Currency | Dinar | ||||||||
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The Emirate of Abtin was a monarchy that existed between 1955 and 1983 as a state in the northwestern portion of the Agoanatolian Subcontinent. It was ruled by the Al-Khayr Family, formally a notable merchant family which supposed ties to the caliph Jalaluddin ibn Uthman ad-Durr. Its origins lay in the 1879 Treaty of Volon. It would be a possesion of Vailleaux and servee as an important part of the Vaillelais colonial empire.
It would be granted a degree of self-rule as a protectorate, and its ports were owned and operated by buisness ventures in Vailleaux. The 1921 Khasibiyyah Revolt, and the 1937 General Strike would weaken colonial hold in the protectorate. Initially ruled by Vaillelais Governor-Generals, Native patrons of the colonial administration were slowly allowed to take government possitions and excersize power as President. Sulayman al-Khayr would serve as the last president before independence. Upon its formal independence in 1955, Sulayman would declare the nation an emirate, leveraging his powerbase with the rural merchants and the military to achive this.
Sulayman's rule would be challanged by events known as the al-Mushajara (The Quarral). it pitted him, his family, and his network of supporters and patrons against the Sherafi's who dominated the east and south of the country. Sulayman had possitioned himself as the protector of minorities in the country, beloning to a religious minority, the Khasibiyyah, an ethnoreligious community prominent in the coastal regions. Under Sulayman the Emirate would become increasingly western and secular, and would become the natural opponent to the Wihda, a conflict which saw the Qusayri Republic uniting the many Khatti nations in the region. Sulayman would die from a heart attack in 1965, his brother Jalaluddin al-Khayr would take over. However disagreements in the al-Khayr family would lead to his nephew, Crown Prince Mohammed al-Khayr taking over the country and installling an Absolute Monarchy in the aftermath of the June 10 Events. Mohammed would rule the country untilm 1983.
Abtin would be deeply involved in helping to fight Qusayri forces during the Wihda, and would host Valaranian forces in its territory. It would be the main belligerent in the Highland Campaign. Which saw Qusayri forces and Sharafi militants fighting against the Emirate. Between 1973 and 1983 the Emirate would be devistated by the conflict. Ultimately the Abtini governemnt was forces to acccept defeat in 1983, Sharafi militants would take over the government as Mohammed and his family fleed to Valaran. Abtin would be formally incorperated into the Qusayri Republic on January 26th 1983.