Florescenta
Florescenta, officially the República de Florescenta (Ingerish - Republic of Florescenta), is a constitutional unitarian semipresidential republic in Southern West Uletha. Its capital and largest city is Marim. It borders Castellán and Mazan.
| Republic of Florescenta | ||||
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| Motto: "Florescenta" Florescenta | ||||
| Anthem: Florescenta | ||||
| Capital | Marim | |||
| Largest city | Marim | |||
| Official languages | Florescentian, Florescentian Sign Language, (Castellanese) , (Mazanic) | |||
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| • President | TBD | |||
| • Prime-Minister | TBD | |||
| Legislature | TBD | |||
| • Upper house | TBD | |||
| • Lower house | TBD | |||
| Population | ||||
| • Estimate (2020) | 8,004,998 | |||
| • Census (2017) | 8,002,123 | |||
| • Density | TBD/km2 TBD/sq mi | |||
| Currency | TBD, symbol TBD | |||
| Drives on the | right | |||
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Etymology
Contrary to the belief of many that the name Florescenta comes from the words Flores (Ingerish - Flower) and Cento (Ingerish - Scent), the country's name has a much older and more obscure origin. When "Romantish" first came into contact with the people located in the central florescentian valley, most of them were "Gaellic" in origin and were recent to the region (since the older inhabitants were pushed east into the tip of Castellán). This "Gaellic" contant gave way to the most agreed upon theory of the origin of the name.
The Aeluopo (*Woopí) are the most credited with the name, the historian "Vigian" describes how they called the region Flecodennacum, which seems to have been a "latinization" of the phrase "flechod énnaco", which in old "Gaellic" meant "Innocent Rains" or the better translation, "Purer Rains" which seems to reference the bigger abudance of rains than central Castellán. Flecodennacum was the name given to the city of the Aeluopo (Flecodennacum Aeluopus), and from that it is theorized that came the name of the "Romantish" province, Flecodennum. During the 2nd Century's political chaos, the Flecodennum Province was partially independent with the remaining part being absorved into the larger neighbouring province, in the 3rd Century, when the province was re-established, for unknown reasons, the name had changed to Flecotenta, which seems to be connected to a renaiming of names around the region with new "latin" terminations.
Another less agreed upon theory is that Florescenta comes from the "pre-indo-european" *Velecodo, which appears a few dozen times in the regions of Mazan/Florescenta/Castellán. However, *Velecodo does not seem probable to have been translated by "romantish" to Flecodennum. The small village of Belecó in Azul, Florescenta, was once a "romantish" city called Bellecodum, even though there are no records of the pre-"romantish" settlement there being named *Velecodo or having any association to it, the similarity has made scholars believe it is just a coincidence.
History
Ancient History
Paleolithic
The region was first inhabited by hunter-gatherers migrating from ***, during that period, the region was even wetter than it is today, allowing for a diverse group of fauna and flora to flourish in the central valley of Florescenta.
Last Glacial Maximum
During the last ice age, the cold temperatures would force a heavier habitation of the coastal lowlands, the glaciers in the western mountains allowed for colder air currents to come in the winter, when groups would move to what are now the lagoon complex of the country.
After the end of the ice age, the defrosting of many glaciers helped to create a lush wetland complex following the lower Palo River, the abudance of water also helped accelerate the erosion of coastal regions. The North Tarephian Green Period, had no affect on Florescenta, as it was a more western event than the prior.
Mesolithic
The Mesolithic is constituted of a lower population estimate than neighbouring regions. Mostly explained by the depopulation during the last ice age, he early mesolithic was made up by small hunter-gatherer groups that specialized in stone weapon confection. Population numbers slowly grew during the period, migrations of ulethan-tarephian farmers quickly made most hunter-gatherer groups in the region go extint, excluding a few Corador hunter gatherer groups in the high mountain regions (The correlation between ancient and modern Coradorian Groups is highly debated).
The growth of population allowed for a bigger stratification of now semi-nomadic groups. During the period ends around 5000BP, with the introduction of the Toro Culture.
Neolithic
The Neolithic starts when the first groups of the Toro Culture appear in historical records. The Toro Culture was part of a bigger group of Late Stage Mesembric Farmer Cultures that shared some similarities, specially reguarding pottery and religious imagery. The Toro Culture was famous for its Bull Head shaped vases, mainly found on the southern regions of Florescenta. While in the northern regions the Favos Culture, said to have introduced honey cultivation in the region, lived.
The region had a very specific type of habitation configuration, similar to other in Castellán and even Sitia, they build small village complexes in round shaped houses, something that seems to be very common to early mesembric cultures. The Toro dissapear around the same time the first polities in the region appear. This starts the period of the Bronze Age.
Bronze Age
During the Bronze Age, the Calta polity, came into existence. Calta is a exonym from the "early hellenistic" historians, who used to trade with Calta, which is either the name for the polity or the city. Much of the information is lost, or never recorded, the region was far away from other trading partners and the linguistic differences probably created a difficulty in translating information about eachother. Not much is said about the Caltan culture or its cities, though there are a few toponyms associated to their extint language, there was never found a center of power for their civilization.
Researchers believe the tip of the Castellán southern peninsula might be the so contested homeland, however lack of archeological evidence makes it hard to confirm.
Bronze Age Collapse
The lack of written and archeological records in the region also makes it hard to know if they also suffered through the Bronze Age Collapse. What is known is that when written records start again, the Calta have already dissapeared.
"Hellenistic and Romantish Period"
The region suffered an invasion of "gaelic" people from the region of Valony, which were already expanding during the period. They had a general tradition of wooden and stone based houses with some fortified cities, they polity system was very loose confederation that would also battle between itself when tribal chiefs would disagree or fight. The region had lost much of its importance during that time, and most of the important port cities in the region remained in what is now Castellán. However, due to numerous issues in trading routes, a new route crossing the Mazanic desert came to be, and it used the southern regions of Florescenta as a safe harbour to launch ships to the Mesembric Sea and beyond.
The Hellenistic people founded a few colonies on what is now Genta, Azul and Royal Coast, with Taliote being the most sucessful of the bunch. The Hellenistic period was a calm period of trading and hellenization of some celtic people on the more active areas of the region. Fights would eventually break out, that could end up in the destruction or sacking of colonies, but generally the "celtic" people and "hellenistic" people would maintain a animosity throught the hundreds of years of hellenistic dominance over the Mesembric Region.
The ascention of "Romatish" would create a shift in power, contrary to many other "celtic" tribes in uletha, Florescenta's tribes were welcoming of plevians, wanting to use the conflict as a way to expell "hellenistic" people out of the region once in for all. The "romatish" were surprised by the level of help the locals gave, as a reward many cities like Talium, Marimum, Urrium, Carcumium and Cratela were given "roman" citizenship early in expansion, a very rare decision.