Galvia

Galvia (: Galvija), officially the Kingdom of Galvia, is a country located in Eastern Alutra, bordered to the north by Renesia, to the north and east by Ecoralia, to the east by Aquizireiki, and to the southeast by Izlegal. Galvia has a population of 37.1 million people as of 2021, and covers a total land area of ??? square kilometres (??? sq mi). The capital and largest city in the country is Antonija. Galvia is a.

The territory that today encompasses the Kingdom of Galvia has been inhabited by  since as far back as the, nearly 40,000 years ago. These early humans traveled across the Alutran steppe reaching the inland region of east-central Alutra, around Lake Vārava, moving seasonally between the area surrounding the lake and the steppe to the west. Sometime around 30,000 years ago, the humans living in this region reached the southern shores of the Northern Ocean in present-day Ecoralia and Renesia. With the start of the around 26,500 years ago, northern Alutra became covered in ice-sheets, forcing all humans living in the region to move south to  at the foot of the mountain range north of the Abayadi Sea, and along the coasts of Alutra’s southern peninsula. Hunter-gatherer communities around this time, though, remained generally concentrated around this region for thousands of years until the eventual end of the Last Glacial Maximum and increase in global temperature. With the rising of temperature and sea levels, people living in the region were forced back north near Lake Vārava, which had began to shrink in size. Around the year 10,000 BCE, the communities around Lake Vārava started to develop agricultural practices and construct fixed settlements, eventually adopting a less nomadic way of living. This period of history in the region is characterized by the, progression of cultural and behavioral changes, and the development of spoken language toward the end of the. have been found in this region, dating back circa 9,000 BCE, indicating a rapid increase in cultural practices. Humans would organize themselves into what are believed to have been egalitarian tribes, usually formed by several families, however, the domestication of animals around 8,000 BCE would indicate an increase in social inequality, as possession of livestock allowed competition between families and resulted in inherited inequalities of wealth. With the start of the in the year 3,500 BCE, trade between the civilizations of eastern Alutra became increasingly common. The civilization situated in what is present-day Galvia, known as Vāras (meaning: people of Lake Vārava), began extracting minerals from the area, particularly, as well as importing tin from other regions in Alutra, that would then be used to form bronze to be exported. During the remainder of the 16th century and well into the 15th century BCE, Varic culture started to fully develop in its own way distinct from the civilizations around it, and the following years, between the 14th and 12th century BCE, are characterized by the emergence of city states and conquest of non-Vāras tribes to the west and north. During the 10th and 9th centuries BCE, the area become witness to small wars between these city states, many of which had been started on religious grounds. The most notorious at the time was the city state of Viduz, founded through conquest and annexation of smaller city states by King Juris I of Viduz, and was responsible for smaller wars with the northern and eastern tribes during the 9th and 8th centuries BCE. As legacy to King Juris, the Republic of Juras was formed in 650 BCE, comprising the conquered territories, giving way to the Empire of Juras in the 4th century BCE.

The Empire of Juras fell in the year 65 BCE, denoting the start of a period in Galvic history known as the Varic Republics, during which the former imperial territory was divided into more than seventy smaller republics and city states. The largest of these republics was the Republic of Lempia, ruled at the time by the vadonis Valerijs I, who sought to unify all Varic people into a single entity similar to the Empire of Juras. Under the command of Valerijs I the Conquest of Lempia began in the year 60 CE, and was successfully completed by his son Valerijs II in the year 4 CE, with the creation of the Varic Empire. The Varic Empire’s main objective was the spreading of Valerijs I’s ideology across Alutra, eventually annexing lands with a Renesian, Ecoral, and Treutish population. The Varic Empire remained one of the most prevalent civilizations in the region, and mostly undisturbed until the start of the 12th century. In the mid-1100s, Ecoralia’s attempt to advance on Varic territory, as part of the economic boom of the Samenwaterijk, led to a counter-invasion attempt on Ecoraland at the command of the Varic Emperor Ludis III. This initiative, while supported by a majority of the Varic Court, was met with discontent from the northern Renesian Court. Despite Varic attempt to conduct the invasion on Ecoraland and contain Renesian rebell groups, Emperor Ludis III was unsuccessful on both fronts, culminating in what is considered to be one of the biggest losses in Galvian history, the independence of Renesia on 3 March 1150, and the Varic Empire's lost access to the ocean. According to historians, this signified the start of the fall of the Varic Empire, officially collapsing in November of 1201.