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Pre-Aroman era
The Old Ebrarian, or Ebraro-Geltic, culture developed from the 6th century BCE, and possibly as early as the 5th century BCE, in the western and southern coasts of the Ebrarian peninsula. The Old Ebrarians lived in villages and walled-towns, and their communities were tribal in organization. The Old Ebrarians in the southern coasts were more urbanized than their inland neighbors to the north. The Old Ebrarian peoples were by and large Geltic, and had an understanding of metalworking, writing, and agriculture.
By the late 3rd-century CE, Yetlandi (Ateenian) traders and raiders had established contact with the Ebraro-Geltic tribes in modern Ebrary, raiding some tribes while establishing trade relationships with others. This culminated in c. 313 with the conquest and vassalization of the Ebraro-Geltic tribes. Raiding perpetrated by these inhabitants flourished at this time, making Ebrary a source of instability in the North Adlantic.
Aroman settlement period
Knowledge of the Aroman settlement period is drawn from a number of sources, chiefly the account Victor Ex Ebrarae written by Marcus Ebraius detailing his conquest of southern Ebrary and subsequent establishment of the city of Ceres. Other sources include a few extant Aroman writings which mention Ebraius or the latter migration of Aromans to settle Ebrary and well as runic inscriptions of Yetlandic origin. The Aroman settlement of Ebrary is principally thought to have begun from the early fifth-century.
The period began with a series of military campaigns led by Aroman statesman and general Marcus Ebraius from 403-415 CE, where his army progressively conquered the lands of southern Ebrary and founded the city of Ceres. Modern Ebrarian historians term this conflict between Ebraius's army and the Yetlandi as the Ebrarian Crusade or the 1st Ebraro-Yetland War. In his accounts, Ebraius states his task was God-given, and his efforts to forcibly convert the Ebraro-Geltic inhabitants and liberate the area from the pagan Yetland Empire are likened to a sort of proto-crusade by many historians. The city of Ceres, now the capital city of Ebrary, was established in 413 at the location of the Ebraro-Geltic village of Kenfar.
After word of the successful conquest reached the Aroman Empire, a steady flow of Christian migrants from all walks of life took the oceanic journey to Ebrary. It is thought that a majority came from core areas of the empire. It is estimated a large portion of them died en route of disease, ill-weather, or raiding by hostile raiders, but a large number eventually settled in temperate Ebrary. Ebraius established Ceres as an independent polis, himself being made the first Consul of the new city and having a classical republican government complete with a Senate. Other Aroman settlements established their own independent governments, with only a tentative allegiance to Ceres.
After the death of Ebraius, migration from the Aroman Empire began to wane but did not completely cease for some number of years. Settlers from Europa and native-born Aroman-Ebrarians founded multiple settlements inland, and the Aromano-Ebrarian Confederacy began to develop as a loose confederation of independently-governed city states in Ebrary. Threat of reconquest by the
Genetic markers of Aroman migrations
Genetic testing has confirmed the large-scale migration of Aroman peoples to Ebrary, tentatively supporting the conclusion that the Aromance-speaking incomers, while contributing substantially to the current Ebrarian gene pool, did not replace the previous Ebrarian population. A study in 2002 by the Ebrarian Institute of Sciences found evidence of a large Aroman migration from the Europan continent, impacting 60-100% of the male gene pool in southern Ebrary. However, this and other similar studies have been criticized with claims that genetic similarity could be rooted in earlier, prehistoric movements of peoples. However, in 2017, three studies were published, based on data collected from skeletons found in Ebraro-Geltic, Aroman, and late medieval era graves in Ceres, Gana, and Cierala, concluded that the ancestry of the modern Ebrarian population contains large contributions from both Aroman migrants and Ebraro-Geltic natives, as well as a small but statistically significant Nordic contribution.