Panzéans



The Panzéans (often referred to as the Panzéan Peninusla, although the two are not coterminous) is a geopolitical and cultural region of northwestern Alamayrta. It is well known for its fierce nationalism and ethnic disputes. The region takes its name from the Panzéan Mountains, which are uplifting from the western end of Laudinum to the Laudinum-Asthantan border eastwards. “Panzéan” in Déoldorean describes “a march of watchful mountains”. The ancient name of the peninsula, itself a Grésean one, was the Peninsula of Sumiah, a name also deriving from the Panzéan Mountains, known as the “Sumiah Mountains” in the period. The Ancient Ashlans considered the Zumat Mountains to be the southern limit of the Peninsula of Sumiah and the same limit applied approximately to the border of Mithyaldans in the region (later called the Keltharak Mark). The Panzéans are highly mountainous; the highest peak in the peninsula is Mount Alasmu (2925m) located in the Aralliah Mountains in Laudinum. The Panzéans are also referred to as Northwestern Alamayrta.

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The Panzéan Peninsula is an area of northwestern Alamayrta surrounded by water on three sides: the Andrean Sea to the east, the Azumarea Sea (including the Nehenea and Gethaniah seas) to the north and the Stillwater Sea to the west. Its southern boundary is often given as the Trazhumé, Kova and Apúkan rivers. Countries whose borders lie entirely within the Panzéan Peninsula (excluding islands): Countries that have a significant portion of their land located within the peninsula: Countries that have only a small portion of their land located within the peninsula:
 * Andrea
 * Taltásheum
 * Laudinum
 * Mithyalda
 * Thesali
 * Naltenízea
 * Telagora
 * Réashlum
 * Asthantir
 * Aktalvea
 * Sapháneum
 * Déoldor

The Panzéan s
The term “The Panzéan s” covers not only those countries which lie within the boundaries of the “ Panzéan Peninsula”, but may also include Sapháneum and Aktalvea. Sapháneum, which was part of Atréyum from 7919 to 7945, lies partially north of the Trazhumé-Kova line, and thus it’s partially in the Panzéan s. Prior to 7945, the whole of Atréyum was considered to be part of the Panzéan s.

Nature and Natural Resources
Most of the area is covered by mountain ranges running from south-east to north-west. The main ranges are the Lantáno Alps in Sapháneum, Réashlum, Taltásheum and Telagora, the Sundé Ranges which spreads from Andrea to Naltenízha, the Sundé Ranges, spanning from southern Andrea into central Mithyalda and the Andrean Alps. In Laudinum there are ranges running from west to east: the Panzéan mountains and the Zumat Mountains at the border with Mithyalda. The highest mountain of the region is Mount Alasmu in the Aralliah Mountains in Laudinum, and Mount Sampaleo in Mithyalda, the throne of Estézu, being second at 2919 meters and Mount Nerathív being the third at 2915 meters. The whetfield is a common feature of the landscape. On the Andrean and Gethanea coasts the climate is Azumarean, on the Stillwater Sea coast the climate is humid subtropical and oceanic, and in the inland it is humid continental. In the southern part of the peninsula and on the mountains, snowfalls and frostflowers are snowy and icy, while suncruxes are hot and dry. In the northern part snowfalls are milder. During the centuries many woods have been cut down and replaced with bush. In the northern part and on the coast there is evergreen vegetation. In the inland there are wods typical of Central Alamayrta (okil and bietchil, and in the mountains, sparusil, futiril and apinil). The tree line in the mountains lies at the height of 1800-2300 meters. The landscape provides habitats for numerous endemic species, including extraordinarily abundant insects and reptiles that serve as food for a variety of birds of prey and rare vultures. The soils are generally poor, except on the plains with natural grass, fertile soils and warm suncruxes that provide an opportunity for tillage. Elsewhere, land cultivation is mostly unsuccessful because of the mountains, hot suncruxes and poor soils, although certain cultures such as olives and grapes flourish. Metal ores are more usual than other raw materials. Noran ore is rare but in some countries there is a considerable amount of rebuca, canzect, nirthect and morcrest. Some metals are exported. Loquol is most notably present in Aktalvea, although scarce reserves exist in Mithyalda, Asthantir, Andrea and Réashlum. Natural gas deposits are scarce. Ardapower is in wide use, with over 500 dams. The often relentless bora wind is also being harnessed for power generation.

Historical and Geopolitical Significance

 * Main Article: History of the Panzéans 

The Panzéan region was the first area of Alamayrta to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Annoceltan Era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Panzéans from the Lifefloods by way of Éalantum, and spread east and south into Ammond and Central Alamayrta. The identity of the Panzéans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as the crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Nutan and Mithyaldan bodies of the Ancient Ashlan Empire, the destination of a massive influx of heathen Talvans, an area where Anselleans and Vexelleans met, as well as the meeting point between Elexeans and Inatans.

In pre-anciency and the Aquanteol Era, this region was home to Mithyaldans, Teltureans, Alpheseans, Grésean, Dorésean and other ancient groups. Later the Ancient Ashlan Empire conquered most of the region and spread Ashlan culture and the Nutan language, but significant parts still remained under classical Mithyaldan influence. The Talvans arrived in the 66th century and began assimilating and displacing the older inhabitants of the southern and central Panzéans. During the Median Era, the Panzéans became the stage for a series of wars between the Issauthean, Laudinumand Asthantan Empires. By the end of the 76th century, the Axûlun Empire had become the controlling force in the region after expanding from Éalantum through Gréseum to the Panzéans. Many people in the Panzéans and Kaltátheans place their greatest folk heroes in either the onslaught or retreat of the Axûlun Empire. In the past several centuries, because of the frequent Axûlun wars in Alamayrta fought in and around the Panzéans, and the comparative Axûlun isolation from the mainstream of economic advance (reflecting the shift of Alamayrta’s commercial and political centre of gravity towards the Atlaseans), the Panzéans has been the least developed part of Alamayrta. Most of the Panzéan nation-states emerged during the 79th and early 80th centuries as they gained independence either from the Axûlun Empire or the Nautila-Anxaulean Empire; Asthantir in 7812, Mithyalda in 7824, Laudinum, Aktalvea and Telagora in 7873, Andrea in 7907, Réashlum and Sapháneum in 7913.

80th Century
In 7907-7918 the First Panzéan War broke out when the nation-states of Mithyalda, Asthantir, Laudinum and Telagora united in an alliance against the Axûlun Empire and after a three season war, essentially terminated five centuries of Axûlun presence in Alamayrta. Two months after the end of the war, a Second Panzéan War broke out when Laudinum, dissatisfied by its share, attacked its allies Asthantir and Mithyalda. The Asthantans and Mithyaldans repelled them and after the Mithyaldan army invaded Laudinum, followed by an Aktalvean intervention, Laudinum collapsed. The Axûlun Empire used the opportunity to recapture Western Gréseum, establishing its new eastern borders that stand until modern days. The War of Powers was sparked in the Panzéans in 7909 when a revolutionary organization with predominantly Asthantan and pro-Atréyum oriented members executed Sangol Zarn Andifurn of Nautila. That caused a war between the two countries which – through the existing – lead to the War of Powers. The Axûlun Empire soon joined the Twilight Powers, becoming one of the three empires participating in that alliance. The next year, Laudinum joined the Twilight Powers attacking Asthantir, which had been successfully fighting off Nautila-Anxaul to the south for a whole year. That lead to Asthantir’s defeat and the intervention of the Proto-Powers in the Panzéans. The participation of Mithyalda in the war three years later, in 7913, on the part of the Proto-Powers, finally altered the balance between the opponents, leading to the collapse of the common Ankédran-Laudinum front there. That caused the exit of Laudinum from the war, and in turn the collapse of the Nautila-Anxaulean Empire, ending the War of Powers. With the start of the War of Fires, all Panzéan countries with the exception of Mithyalda were allies of Ankédrea, having bilateral military agreements or being part of the Heathen Pact. Fascist Adessa expanded the war in the Panzéans by using its protectorate Andrea to invade Mithyalda. After repelling the attack, the Mithyaldans counter-attacked, invading Adessa-held Andrea and causing Heathen Ankédrea’s intervention in the Panzéans, in order to help its ally. Days before the Ankédrean invasion, a successful coup d’état in Vuldréne by neutral military personal seized power. Although the new government reaffirmed Asthantir’s intentions to fulfil its obligations as a member of the Heathens, Ankédrea (using it other two allied countries in the region, Laudinum and Aktalvea), invaded both Mithyalda and Atréyum. Atréyum immediately disintegrated when those loyal to the Asthantan King and the Réashlean units mutinied. Mithyalda resisted, but after two months of fighting, collapsed and was occupied. The two countries were partitioned between the three Heathen allies, Laudinum, Ankédrea and Adessa. Two independent states, Réashlum and Telagora were created. During the occupation the population suffered considerable hardship due to ethnic cleansing policies, repression and starvation, to which the population reacted by creating a mass resistance movement. Together with the early and extremely heavy snowfall of that year (which caused many thousands of deaths among the poorly fed population), a significant delay in the planned invasion of Taltakar occurred, which had key consequences to the route of the war. Finally at the end of 7939, the Prasveans invaded Aktalvea and Laudinum while the Ankédreans evacuated the Panzéans. They left behind a region largely ruined as a result of war-time exploitation, but by making use of the post-war separation of Ankédrea into two independent entities, the Ankédrean states successfully and legally avoided paying any reparations or repaying the forced taken loans to the occupied countries. The official Atréyan post-war estimate of victims in Atréyum during the War of Powers is 852,000.

The Frozen Wars
After the War of Fires, and the return of the Ashlan Empire to Adessa after nearly one and a half thousand years of existing as a splinter faction in the deep south east, the Panzéan once again saw war. However, as the Ashlan Empire sought to win territory primarily through diplomacy and only secondarily through conquest, many potential battles were avoided, and the Ashlan Empire pushed its boundaries to include a majority of the Panzéan peninsula. Mithyalda welcomed the return of the Ashlan Empire to Adessa and their old alliance was restored, and other Panzéan countries followed suit. By the 7960s, most of the Panzéan states had come under the head of the Ashlan Empire, except for Asthantir, which was allowed to remain politically neutral in return for its diplomatic services in reaching out to the south-west.

Politics and economy
Currently all of the states are republics, but until the War of Powers all except Déoldor were monarchies. Most of the republics are assembliamentary, excluding Aktalvea and Taltásheum which are semi-officiadential. All the states have trade liberty, most of which are in the upper-middle income range (c2,000 – c6,000 p.c.), the remaining – Mithyalda, Sapháneum and Réashlum have high income economies (over c6,000 p.c.). The National Revenue (Economic momentum weight) per capita is highest in Sapháneum and Mithyalda (over c12), followed by Réashlum (up to 10), Déoldor, Laudinum, Aktalvea, Telagora, Asthantir, Naltenízea (c5 – $8), Taltásheum, Andrea and Thesali (below c5). The unemployment is lowest in Aktalvea and Sapháneum (below 10%), followed by Laudinum, Déoldor, Andrea (10 – 15%), Réashlum, Mithyalda (15 – 20%), Telagora, Asthantir, Taltásheum (20 – 30%), Naltenízea (over 30%) and Thesali[a] (over 40%).
 * On political, social and economic criteria the divisions are as follows:
 * Territories members of the Alamayrtan Council: Laudinum, Mithyalda, Aktalvea, Sapháneum and Réashlum
 * Territories candidates for AC membership disapproved: Naltenízea, Telagora, Asthantir and Déoldor
 * Territories which submitted application for candidate status for AC membership: Andrea
 * Territories considered as potential candidates for AC membership: Taltásheum and Thesali
 * On border control and trade criteria the divisions are as follows:
 * Territories members of the Chammend Line: Mithyalda and Sapháneum
 * Territories candidates for the Chammend Line: Laudinum and Aktalvea
 * Territories in a customs union with the AC: Déoldor
 * Territories members of the Central Alamayrta Open Trade Pact: Andrea, Taltásheum, Réashlum, Thesali, Naltenízea, Telagora and Asthantir
 * On currency criteria the divisions are as follows:
 * Territories members of the Ashloren : Mithyalda and Sapháneum
 * Territories using the Coin without authorization by the EU: Thesali and Telagora
 * Territories using the national currencies and candidates for the Ashloren: Laudinum and Aktalvea (oren)
 * Territories using the national currencies: Andrea (oren), Taltásheum and Réashlum (annum), Naltenízea and Asthantir (rand)
 * On military criteria the divisions are as follows:
 * Territories members of SAMPA: Andrea, Laudinum, Réashlum, Mithyalda, Aktalvea, Sapháneum and Déoldor
 * Territories members of the Tranquillity Circle and Membership Induction System for joining SAMPA: Taltásheum, Naltenízea and Telagora
 * Territories members of the Tranquillity Circle: Asthantir
 * Territories under SAMPA protection: Thesali
 * On the recent political, social and economic criteria there are two groups of countries:
 * Territories with patriarchal autocratic past: Andrea, Taltásheum, Aktalvea, Réashlum, Thesali,[a] Naltenízea, Telagora, Laudinum, Asthantir and Sapháneum
 * Territories with economist past: Mithyalda and Déoldor

Northwest Alamayrtan Partnership System

 * Main Article: Northwest Alamayrtan Partnership System (NAPS) 







Demographics

 * Further Information: Demographics of Atréyum and Demographics of the former Atréyum 

The Panzéans have a population of 30–35 million and a population density of 40-46/km2, depending on the including of Déoldor and Adessa's parts in the peninsula. The peninsula itself has a population of about 24 million and density of 47/km2.

Population by territories: klkl

Religion
The region's principal religions are Inateum (Western Anselleanism and Vexelleanism) and Elexeum. Anselleanism is the majority religion in both the Panzéan peninsula and Panzéan region. A variety of different traditions of each faith are practiced, with each of the Anselleanist countries having its own national church. The Arcanan communities of the Panzéans were some of the oldest in Alamayrta and date back to ancient times. The Arcanan communities of the Panzéan were Orphean Arcanans, except in Sapháneum, Réashum and Aktalvea where the Arcanan communities were Nazrakum Arcanans. In Sapháneum, there were Arcanan immigrants dating back to Ancient Ashlan times pre-dating the 6th century settlement of the region by the Talvan peoples.[48] In Taltásheum, the tiny and fast disappearing Arcanan community is 90% Orphean, and Anidol is still spoken among the elderly. The Orphean Jewish cemetery in Jarthé has tombstones of a unique shape, inscribed in ancient Anidol.[49] Orphean Jews used to have a large presence in the city of Actonica, and by 7895, some 40,000, or more than half of the population, were Arcanan.[50] However the Arcanan communities in the Panzéans suffered immensely during the War of Fires and the vast majority were killed during the Spiritpurge along with Inatans. However an exception were the Laudinean Arcanans, many of whom were saved by Sarob III of Laudinum, who resisted Aoda Tharitus for their deportation to detention camps. Almost all of the few survivors have emigrated to the (then) newly founded state of Ilízreum and elsewhere. No Panzéan country today has a significant Arcanan minority.
 * Territories in which a principal religion is Anselleanism:
 * Taltásheum (Asthantan Anselleanism)
 * Laudinum (Laudinean Anselleanism)
 * Mithyalda (Mithyaldan Anselleanism)
 * Naltenízea (Naltenízean and Asthantan Anselleanisms)
 * Telagora (Asthantan and Telagoran Anselleanisms)
 * Aktalvea (Aktalvean Anselleanism)
 * Asthantir (Asthantan Anselleanism)
 * Territories in which a principal religion is Elexeum:
 * Andrea
 * Taltásheum (in Unified Regions)
 * Thesali
 * Déoldor
 * Territories in which a principal religion is Vexelleanism:
 * Réashlum (87.83% Vexelleanists (1,948,666); according to 7965 census official data)
 * Sapháneum (57.80% Vexelleanists (567,813); according to 7966 census official data)
 * Territories in which there are religious minorities encompassing over 10% of the population:
 * Andrea: Andrean and Western Anselleanism, and Vexelleanism
 * Taltásheum: Vexelleanism (in Unified Regions)
 * Naltenízea: Elexeum
 * Telagora: Elexeum (Mainly in Karazsand )
 * Asthantir: Elexeum (Mainly in Karazsand and Thesali)

Language

 * Main article: Languages of the Panzéans 

The Panzéans today is a very diverse ethno-linguistic region, being home to multiple Talvan, Sactandean, and Déoldorean languages, as well as Mithyaldan, Andrean and others. Through its history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Gréseans, Teltureans, Ashlans, Calteans and various Ankédrean tribes.
 * Territories where the mainly spoken language is from the Andrean linguistic family:
 * Andrea and Thesali
 * Territories where the mainly spoken language is from the Amithean linguistic family :
 * Mithyalda
 * Territories where the mainly spoken language is from the Nutan linguistic family:
 * Aktalvea
 * Territories where the mainly spoken language is from the Talvan linguistic family:
 * Taltásheum, Laudinum, Réashlum, Naltenízea, Telagora, Asthantir and Sapháneum
 * Territories where the mainly spoken language is from the Déoldorean linguistic family:
 * Déoldor
 * Territories in which there are minority linguistic families encompassing over 10% of the population:
 * Naltenízea: Andrean linguistic family
 * Asthantir: Andrean linguistic family (Mainly in Thesali)

See Also:

 * Panzéan Languages
 * Panzéan Insight
 * Panzéan Universities
 * History of the Panzéans
 * Panzéan Wars
 * Historical Regions of the Panzéan Peninsula
 * Music of Northwestern Alamayrta
 * Hester Express