Kabylie (1983: Doomsday)

Republic of Kabylie
Tagduda Kabyle
Timeline: 1983: Doomsday
OTL equivalent: Kabyle region in North Algeria

Flag Flag Coat of Arms Location of Republic of Kabylie
Capital	Tizi-Ouzou (political), Béjaïa (economical)
Largest city	Béjaïa (economical)
Language   official	Kabyle
others	Arabic,Greek
Religion   main	Islam (Sunni)
others	Catholic, Greek Orthodox
Ethnic Groups   main	Kabyles
others	Arabs,Greeks
Demonym	Kabyle
Currency	Kabyle Dinar

Kabylie or Kabylia (Kabyle: Tamurt Iqbayliyen, Tamurt n Leqbayel or Tamurt idurar), is a country in the north of Africa it's bordered by Algeria. Is part of the Tell Atlas and is located at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. Kabylia covers is divided in several provinces once of Algeria: the whole of Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia (Bgayet), most of Bouira () and parts of the wilayas of Bordj Bou Arreridj, Jijel, Boumerdes, and Setif. Gouraya National Park and Djurdjura National Park are also located in Kabylie.

History

Condensed introduction

By the hypothesis that North Africa was once covered with water, the only land left for people to have inhabited is what appears to now be the Atlas

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a 19th century jar, Kabyles Art Museum, Kabylie

Mountains. The Kabyle people have always inhabited the peaks of the Algerian Highlands, a part of the Atlas Mountains in eastern Algeria. Several sources, from anthropology to the genome, conclude that the Kabyles are autochthonous inhabitants of this territory, also commonly referred to as "Homeland". Except for the Germanic clan known as the Vandals, no other peoples have ever inhabited with them on their territory - neither the Phoenicians, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Turks or the French. While most of these invaders established military forts on seashore cities (originally built by Phoenicians), the contact with the local peoples past the Atlas chain, which constitutes an impressive barrier, has remained minimal. In Kabyle lands, Roman troops lost their advantage, and local insurgents found refuge. No invader succeeded in imposing its rule over the Kabyle people until the French, late in the middle of the 19th century - a cohabitation which eventually led to a conflict of sovereignty, resulting in the notorious Algerian War, which lasted eight years from 1954 to 1962. Modern age

Though the region was the last stronghold against French colonization, the area was gradually taken over by the French from 1857, despite vigorous local resistance by the local population led by leaders such as Faḍma n Sumer, continuing as late as Mokrani's rebellion in 1871. Much land was confiscated in this period from the more recalcitrant tribes and given to French pieds-noirs. Many arrests and deportations were carried out by the French, mainly to New Caledonia. Colonization also resulted in an acceleration of the emigration into other areas of the country and outside of it.

Pre-Doomsday

Tensions developed between Kabyle leaders and the central government on several occasions, initially in 1963, when the Socialist Forces Front party of Hocine Aït Ahmed contested the use of the name of a popular resistance movement as a political party, by Nasserian agents, of lower grade within the FLN,

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Bejala

incapable of organizing their respective regions to provide delegates for the establishment of the 1st Legitimate Algerian Constitution. Organized as a temporary Government a Junta with allegiance, and military support from Nasser and other Pan-Arabists succeeded in preventing such a convention and a legitimate Constitution voted by a legitimate parliament. A year armed confrontation resulted, in which most FLN leaders from Kabylia and the eastern provinces were either executed or pushed to exile. In 1980, several months of demonstrations demanding the official recognition of the Tamazight/Berber language, known as the Berber Spring, took place in Kabylie and Algiers, resulting in an extra-judiciary imprisonment of thousands of pro-Berber Algerian intellectuals. The Government security forces besieged and violently prevented a Berber poetry recital organized by the faculty and student of the main city of Kabylia, Tizi-Wezzu.

Post-Doomsday

After Doomsday, Algeria fell into chaos, with warlords and islamic leaders seceding into various nations and cities, turning Algeria into a small rump state. One of the first and few (and possible the only one) organized state that secede was Kabylie made by the Kabylian people. As Algeria recovered from the chaos and a many former Algeria nations invaded and annexed other nations, Kabylie was in a relative peaceful moment. In 1985 Kabylie for the first time since Doomsday open from isolation as it start diplomatic relations with a former Algerian state, known as Tamanrasset , the chief city and now state of the Algerian tuaregs. Later in the late 1980's Kabylie enjoined as they discovered other Berber and Tuareg states and make relations such as: Chaoui by the Chaouis, Tamahaq by the Tamahaq tuaregs, Chenoia by the Chenoua berbers, M'zab by the Mozabites, and many others.

Hellenic Problems

In 1996, as the Confederation of Greece made contact with Algeria and eventually Algeria entered the Greek sphere of influence, with the help of the Greeks, Algeria annexed many of the nations such as Chenoia, while many others survived like M'zab, Tamahaq, Chaoui, and Tamanrasset. As more states were included into Algeria, the Greeks decide that Kabylie should be part of their mandates in North Africa, and eventually with influence in Kabylie, Kabylie was annexed without almost any fight.

A Kabylie city during The Independence War

Kabylie remained in the memories like Chenoia until 1998, when civil unrest, rioting, looting, and the assassination of a Greek police and a Greek nobel from the Despotate of Morae (a member of the Confederation of Greece) started a revolution which a de facto state was proclaimed. Eventually as the Kabylians decide to die before to surrender, the war lasted longer, the many greeks located there returned to Greece, and the Greeks decided that the land should be returned to the Kabylians, so they signed a ceasefire in 2000 in which Kabylie recognized the annexation of various states to Algeria, that it doesn't recognized some states mentioned in the treaty that secede from Algeria (but the Tuareg and Berber nations were not mentioned), and in which Greece and Algeria recognized Kabylie.

Just after the war , the Kabylians with the help of their former enemies, Greece and Algeria reconstructed the country.

Sicilian Problems and Alliance with the Greece

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A Greek building in Kabylie. After the Greeks and Algerians helped reconstructing Kabylie, more styles of architecture were added to the city, including the Hellenic one

In 2004, Sicily , which the Kabylians call "the Neo-Roman Empire" invaded nearby Sardinia and Tunisia. these started a massive wave of panic and fear in all Algeria and former Algeria, which made that the majority of nations of Algeria allied with Greece, including their former enemy, Kabylie.

Eventually in 2009, the Second Sicilian War broke out, and the Kabylians allied with the Greeks. Greece have offer Kabylie to unite again with the Confederationbut Kabylie have prefer to stay independent.

On March 16 of that same year, a group of Kabyles pirates attack a League of Nations ship near the coast. The only casualty of that incident was seen on a video that was shown first on Kabyles News TV in which a League of Nations Staff Member from The Alpine Confederation is decapitated. In January 3 of 2010, a joint Greek-Kabylian operation take the pirate ship, and killed the pirates and save all the LoN staff, which only the man mentioned above died.

Geography

Landscape of Kabylie.Landscape, near Azazga Main features:

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Kabylie landscape

• The Great Kabylia, which runs from Thénia (west) to Bejaia (east), and from the Mediterranean Sea (north) to the valley of Soummam (south), that is tosay, 200 km by 100 km, beginning 50 km fromAlgiers, the capital of Algeria.
• Kabylia of Bibans and Kabylia of Babors, which form the Little Kabylia.

Three large chains of mountains occupy most of the area:

• In the north, the mountain range of maritime Kabylia, culminating with Tifrit n'Ait El Hadj (Tamgout 1278 m)
• In the south, the Djurdjura, dominating the valley of Soummam, culminating with Lalla-Khedidja (2308 m)
• Between the two lies the mountain range of Agawa, which is the most populous and is 800 m high on average. The largest town of Great Kabylia, Tizi Ouzou, lies in that mountain range. Larbaa Nat Iraten(formerly "Fort-National" in French occupation), which numbered 28,000 inhabitants in 2001, is the highest urban centre of the area.

Ecology

There are a number of flora and fauna associated with this region. Notable is a population of the endangered primate, Barbary Macaque, Macaca sylvanus, whose prehistoric range encompassed a much wider span than the present limited populations in Algeria, Morocco and Gibraltar.

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a Kabylie prairie

Population

The area is populated by the Kabyles, the second most populous Berber people after the Chleuhs in Morocco. Their name means "tribe" (from the Arabic "qabîlah" قبيلة). They speak the Kabyle variety of Berber.

Economy

The traditional economy of the area is based on arboriculture (orchards, olive trees) and on the craft industry (tapestry or pottery). The mountain and hill farming is gradually giving way to local industry (textile and agro-alimentary).

Today Kabylie is the most industrialised part of Algeria. Industries include: pharmaceutical industry in Bejaia, agro-alimentary in Ifri and Akbou, mechanical industry in Tizi Ouzou and other little towns of western Kabylia, and petrochemical industry and refining of petrole in Begaia.

Bejaia's port is the 6th largest of the Mediterranean Sea.

Culture

Language

Kabyle people

The principal language used by the Kabyls is Kabyle, which is spoken both at home and professionally. Speakers take pride in the Kabyle language. Also recently a mix of Greek and Kabyle have arise.

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Greek Revival architecture in Tizi-Ouzu

Religion

The vast majority of Kabyle are nominal Sunni Muslims, though secularizing influences are strong. Small minorities are Roman Catholic or secular. There has been a growth of Protestant Evangelicals in recent years.

Architecture and Arts

Although architecture remains Neo-Islamic, Neo-Hellenic have arise in the recent year thanks to the Confederation of Greece. Western Arts have also arise in the recent years.

Foreign Relations

Kabylie have good relations with other berber nations and tuareg nations. Although it have relations with Algeria, the relations are tense, because Kabylie was part of Kabylie. Kabylie is one of the greatest allies of the Greece Confederation, once it biggest enemy, until the Sicilians invade Tunisia and the Kabyls allied to Greece due to fear of being annexed to Sicily. Kabylie is a member of the LoN since 2007 thanks to Greece.

Politics

Two political "algerianist" parties have their principal support base in Kabylia: the FFS, led by Hocine Aït Ahmed, and the RCD, led by Saïd Sadi. Both parties are secularist, Berberist and "Algerianist".

Parties:

• Rally for Culture and Democracy
• Socialist Forces Front
• Party for Kabylie-Greece reunification
• Kabyl Party of Algerian reunification