Occupation of Hilmabreget
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 Militants of the "Front for a Sovereign Hilmaria" during the Battle of Marvekh | |||||||
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The Occupation of Hilmabreget, also known as the Hilmanic Troubles, or the Illmaryia Insurrections, was a early-20th century conflict part of the larger 'Murrudin Partition following the Continental War. It officially ended with the Annexation of Illmaryia and the creation of the Region of Hilmabreget as part of Hardhiara.
After the Continental War, the Dreibund included in the Treaty of Lehpold a serie of previsions planning the dismemberment of the Murrudin Empire by creating new states from its westernmost possessions which would serve as buffers between its remnants and Cornicae. Such provisions included the inclusion of the Murrudin territories in Brachlon into Cornicae to create a Greater Brachlon, the creation of an Similia, and independents Bophna and Tayar.
With the weakening of the Murrudin presence in Illmaryia, and inspired by the Similian nationalist movement, the Front for a Sovereign Hilmaria (FSH) started a serie of actions aimed at taking control over large sways of the Illmaryia Province and establish the premises of the Hilmaric State. This, in turn, led to the creation of the Durqleri Self-Preservation Movement (DSPM) and of a number of Bugorani organizations opposing the idea of an Hilmaric state. Clashes between various ethnic militias became more and more common and violent, leading to a serie of massacres and low-intensity battles, especially between the FSH and the DSPM.
The conflict further escalated in 1919 with the announce by the Assembly of Nations that elections would finally be organized with the protection of internationale troops to decide the fate of the “Hilmanic Coast”. Hardhiara contested the holding of these elections, alongside the DSPM and other Durqleri or Bophnan organizations, who accused the Assembly of having already prepared to rig the referendum as they had planned since the Treaty of Lehpold to grant satisfaction to the Hilmanic demands. The Anti-Nationalism Committee (ANC) was created by the Bophnan Rahman Majali as an armed movement against the upcoming elections and the possibility of an Hilmanic dominated state. The urban ANC and the rural DSPM quickly entered a strategic alliance, named the Alliance of the Persecuted by Hilmanic Nationalism (A-PEHNA), financed and supplied by Hardhiara. In 1921, the Hardhi military crossed the international border with the support of the Durqleri mountain tribes and other local allies, and began to occupy important crossing points into Illmaryia and establish checkpoints, especially at the border with Tayar. Violent “anti-criminal operations” led by the Hardhiari military targeted the FSH and their supporters, with the help of A-PEHNA affiliated militias and Deathsquads. The troubles shacking most of the winners of the Continental War (The Great Recession in Cornicae, the Mascyllian Revolution in 1923…) prevented the Assembly of Nations from intervening as planned in the region, leaving Hardhiara free to act as it pleased.
In 1923, a treaty was signed between the FSH and the Hardhari government, disbanding the former and officially ending the hostility. Following this treaty, the A-PEHNA was also disbanded. The same year, the Durqleri tribes officially proclaimed their adhesion to the Equiveprimya and so did most urban settlements now dominated by ex-ANC figureheads. Most remaining settlements either joined through the promise of its local leadership being integrated to the Equiveprimya’s administration, or through military occupation. In 1924, Illmariya was officially divided into two Regions: the northernmost part was integrated to Labocham, and the rest became the modern Hilmabreget.