Kingdom of Kasavy
Kingdom of Kasavy Rzeńa Selórzana | |
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| 452–1718 | |
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| Capital | Leonior (until 515)
Rivne (until 905) Kavalin |
| Common languages | Kasavrine, Gaullican, Solarian, Miersan |
| Religion | Majority religion:
Minority religions:
Amendism (of the royal court, 1543-1688) |
| Demonym(s) | Kasavrine |
| Government | Monarchy |
• 452-477 | Dragomir |
• 1187-1201 | Valerian |
• 1517-1565 | Julan II |
• 1710-1718 | Cecyla Antonina |
| History | |
| 446 | |
| 452 | |
• Mad War | 1201-1219 |
| 18 July 1718 | |
| Population | |
• 500 CE | 850,000 |
| Today part of | East Miersa Gaullica Slirnia West Miersa |
The Kingdom of Kasavy (Kasavrine: Rzeńa Selórzana; Gaullican: Royaume de Casavie; Solarian: Regnum solarianus; Miersan: Królestwo Kasawy) was a sovereign state in Central Euclea. It was founded in 452, a decade after the initial Kasavar invasion of Gaullica, by the Donation of Claude after its first king, Dragomir, converted to Solarian Catholicism. Although initially a Verliquoian subject, it gradually began to assert its independence as the empire's power and influenced waned.
The kingdom remained a powerful state in Euclea until the death of Valerian I caused the Mad War between 1201 and 1219, a devastating civil war between Valerian's daughter Helena and Philip of Oyré. With Verliquoian support Philip was able to assume control of most of the country, though it was not until Helena's death in 1219 that the war ended. Kasavy was forced to acknowledge the Verliquoian Emperor as their suzerain in the lands granted by the Donation of Claude, now largely modern-day Gaullican Casavie, in return they received the Duchy of Brou, and Philip's son Augustin was married to Catherina of Gaullica, daughter of Louis III.
This arrangement continued until 1543, when Julan II converted to Amendism, and gave patronage to the Pomites. Francois I of Gaullica claimed that this negated the Donation of Claude, initiating a war which lasted until 1547 and a Gaullican victory. Julan agreed to convert to Solarian Catholicism, but reverted after Francois seized the Seven Districts and his lands in Brou. The monarch, court, and much of the nobility continued to be Amendist until 1688, although the majority of the population remained Catholic and Pomite. In 1688 Paweł III, who had converted to Catholicism in 1674, issued the Declaration of Paryz which removed tolerance and protections for all non-Catholics, resulting in large-scale emigration to the New World. His daughter, Cecyla Antonina, would be the last monarch of Kasavy, as it would be partitioned between Soravia and Gaullica in 1718.
Today the former Kingdom of Kasavy is divided between Gaullica, Miersa, and Slirnia, with Kasavrines being a significant minority in the former two countries, and a vulnerable minority in the latter.
Etymology
Kasavy (alternatively Kassavy, Kasavie, Casavy, Casavie) comes from the Kasavars, a Marolevic tribal confederation of Miersan origin who settled in the region known as Greater Kasavy. From this comes their commonly known demonym, Kasavrine.
The self-designation of Kasavrines is Selórzany, which literally means Solarian. Their name for Kasavy was Selórzana, although in the modern-day the word Selórzaneta is preferred to refer to the Greater Kasavy region. There are two commonly accepted theories for their endonym:
- That it is derived from the region granted to the Kasavars being designed a 'Solarian Kingdom', which is reflected in the endonym for the Kingdom of Kasavy: Rzeńa Selórzana (lit. Solarian Kingdom).
- Alternatively, or perhaps concurrently, it is derived from the populace who would have espoused a Solarian identity at the time of the Kasavar migration, and the Kasavar nobility integrated into the local identity and language.