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| Capital | Nish | ||||
| Largest city | Nish | ||||
| Language | Mysian | ||||
| Religion main |
Hellenism 60%, Christianism 20% | ||||
| others | Irreligious 10%, Zoroastrianism 2%, Undeclared 8% | ||||
The Republic of Mysia is a country in Eastern Europe. The population is approximately 19 million and consists mostly of ethnic Mysians. The capital and largest city is Nish. The official language is Mysian.
Modern Mysia was formed in September 6th, 2701, through a personal union of the Republic of Dardania and the Kingdom of Bulgaria, in the wake of the World Order War. The origins of Mysia lay in Dacia, Thracia, and Illyria.
Mysia is a developing country with a high-income economy. It has the world's 45th largest economy by nominal GDP, with an annual economic growth rate of 3.5%. Following rapid economic growth in the early 2750s, Mysia has an economy based predominantly on services and is a producer and net exporter of machines and electric energy. The vast majority of the population identifies as ethnic Mysian and Hellene while a substantial minority population of Christians are present mostly in the east, the former Kingdom of Bulgaria.
Etymology[]
The name of the country comes from the Moesi, a Thraco-Dacian peoples who lived in the western part of modern Mysia before the Roman conquest.
Old Roman: Moesia; Grecian: Μοισία, romanized: Moisía).
Roman: Mesia
Cambrian: Mysi
Old Roman (Latin): Moesia
Grecian: Μοισία
Andalusian: Moésia
Francian: Mösien
History[]
Evidence of proto-Thracians or proto-Dacians in the prehistoric period depends on the remains of material culture. It is generally proposed that a proto-Dacian or proto-Thracian people developed from a mixture of indigenous peoples and Indo-Europeans from the time of Proto-Indo-European expansion in the Early Bronze Age when the latter, around -750 AUC, conquered the indigenous peoples. The indigenous people were Danubian farmers, and the invading people were Kurgan warrior-herders from the steppes.
Indo-Europeanization was complete by the beginning of the Bronze Age. The people of that time are best described as proto-Thracians, which later developed in the Iron Age into Danubian-Carpathian Geto-Dacians as well as Thracians of the eastern Hemus Peninsula.
The Dacian-Getae culture was later influenced by the Bronze Age Tumulus warriors who were on their way through the Hemus to Anatolia. When the Celts arrived the Dacians were under the influence of the Scythians.
Alexander the Great attacked the Getae in 419 on the lower Danube, but by 450 they had formed a state founded on a military democracy, and began a period of conquest. More Celts arrived during the later 400s, the people of Boii tried to conquer some of the Dacian territory on the eastern side of the Teiss river. The Dacians drove the Boii south across the Danube and out of their territory, at which point the Boii abandoned any further plans for invasion.
Society[]
Geography[]
Politics[]
Mysia is divided into Regions, while its two main 'Realms' are not political entities, but de-facto cultural spheres instead, which correspond to the former Republic of Dardania and the Kingdom of Bulgaria. Both of these 'realms', Dardania and Bulgaria, do not correspond singularly to the Regions so named, but rather are larger areas which include within them these Regions.
The official divisions, the Regions, consist of: Dardania, Bulgaria, Prevalia, Dacia, Northern Thracia, Paradanubia, Bordinia, Cumania, and Carpathia.
Economy[]
Military[]
Demographics[]
Mysians[]
The modern Mysian people and their culture is a conglomeration of myriad historical groups. Dacians, Thracians, Illyrians, Venedians, Avars, Bulgars, Goths, Grecians, Romans, Scythians, Huns, and Celts are all counted among the progenitors of the modern Mysians.
The Mysian language remains mired in controversy about its origins. The only certainty that can be stated is that Mysian is an indigenous language of the Hemus Peninsula, regardless of if this is Dacian, Illyrian, or Thracian in origin.
Culture[]
Origins of the Mysians[]
Controversy surrounds the origins of the Mysians and many camps have different theories, none of which have been accepted as definite yet.
The controversy largely stems from religious differences between various Mysian speaking peoples and has reached such a point that today the Arberians and Mysians clearly speak the same language with only minor differences (the two are very much mutually intelligible), yet to consider them dialects of the same language garners a high degree of antagonism within both countries.
The three main camps are divided into the Dacian, Illyrian, and Thracian arguments. Much of this stems from the current inability to determine the origins of the Mysian and Arberian languages. Not enough is known of the Dacian, Illyrian, or Thracian languages to be able to catagorize modern Myso-Arberian into any of them. Subsequently the Arberian theory popularly declares the language to be Illyrian, thus making Arberia the homeland of the Myso-Arberian languages. The leading Mysian theory (popular among Dardanian scholars) is that the languages are Dacian and thus the homeland is in modern Mysia (specifically upper Dardania). The older Thracian theory, less popular now, was largely pushed in former Bulgaria, which naturally enough was mostly in former Thracia, thus claiming their area as the homeland.
Modern Mysian people
The Illyrian Theory claims that both Mysian and Arberian are Illyrian languages. The claim states the modern Mysian people originated in Arberia, or thereabouts, and migrated north and east over the centuries, displacing the Romanized Daco-Thracians (the Valachs), the Bulgars, and the Venedians of the area, ultimately supplanting them.
The Dacian Theory claims the languages are Dacian in origin and that the specific dialect of Dacian that became the two languages originates around modern Vidin, in western Mysia. It postulates that these Dacian people moved south and west over time.
The only certainties are as follows: Arberian was first recorded in 2033, roughly where it can be found today. In 2061 Dardanian is recorded, in modern western Mysia. Thus the languages were present in their current areas at that time. For most of the history of both Arberia and Mysia the two were under Grecian (Eastern Roman) control of Bulgarian control. The latter being the Turkic Bulgar led realm which, history suggests, was made up of a diverse array of people. These included the dominant Turkic Bulgars (related to the modern Tatars), the Venedians, remnant Romans (Valachs), Grecians, and Mysians. Trouble arises when trying to determine who, if any of these groups, were the majority at any time. The 2000s saw Roman meddling the the Hemus Peninsula and it is believed that both Valach and Myso-Arberian settlement was encouraged at this time. This is a good theory as to the expansion eastwards of Mysians, be it from Arberia or Dardania (both are possible so this does not aid in deducing which of the two, thus if it is Illyrian or Dacian). The Arberians were Hellenes at the time and as Romania took parts of Grecia and Constantinople they encouraged, and forced, religiously loyal populations (Arberians and Dardanians, as well as Valachs) into the void as they displaced the Venedic and Grecian Christian populations.
This is the assumed path of Mysian speakers dominating in the former Kingdom of Bulgaria, which is believed to have been largely Venedic, speaking a dialect similar to that in Yedisan. At what point the Mysian speakers displaced the Venedics is unknown. The populace was likely a melting pot for most of Bulgaria's history until modern times. If these people arrived via Dardania (as Dacians) or Arberia (as Illyrians) via Roman machinations, is unknown.
Culture[]
Mysians are broadly split into two principal cultural regions (three if the Arberians are included), these being Dardania in the west and Bulgaria in the east. Dardania is dominated by Hellenism and ties with Romania while Bulgaria is largely Christian and has historical ties with Grecia. Furthermore the two are typically divided along claims of Dacian (with Dardania) and Thracian (with Bulgaria) claims of origin. The Arberians, whose language is near identical to Mysian, represents a third, external grouping, who are mostly Zoroastrian and represent the 'Illyrian' element.
Substantial Venedic (alternatively called Slavs; Sllavët in Mysian, Sklaboi (Σκλάβοι) in Grecian) elements can be found in modern Mysian culture, not only in Bulgaria. This can easily be found in names, such as Vlad, Vladi, Iván and surnames such as Kerstoviq, Bogdani, Dusha, Vuksana, Rexhepagiq. The suffix of some of these surnames (-iq) arrives via From Proto-Venedic -iťь a denominal, forming patronyms and metronyms as well as demonyms (Slovenian -ич (-ič), Wendish -ic, Yedisan -ищь (-ištĭ)).
Venedic words are found aplenty in Mysian as well, such as sharkë, meaning shirt, via Venedic *sorka (“shirt”); çeltik meaning leader; kordhë meanign sword, via Venedic korŭda; vishnjë meaning cherry, via Venedic višьňa; grusht meaning punch, via Venedic grŭstĭ, (“fist, handful”); da meaning yes, via Venedic ta (“and so, thereby”) and comparable to the affirmation of most modern Venedic languages.
Mysian culture, especially Dardanian, is heavily steeped in that of Roman, especially the First Roman Empire. A certain pride lingers about Mysian involvement in the Empire, as a certain 'glory day', and this is popularly more focused on than pre-Roman times, be it Dacian or otherwise. Roman names are quite popular as a result (Klaudi, Aureliani, Mark, Floriani, Probi, Justini, and Trajani are all examples of modern Mysian names in common circulation). Much of this may be rooted in the return of Romania to the Hemus Peninsula in the 2000s AUC, when the Hellene believing Dardanians and Arberians were bolstered and given prominence unseen under the Christian Venedo-Bulgars and the Grecians. Mysians popularly remember the "Mysian Emperors", those Roman Emperors who hailed from what is modern Mysia, such as Claudius Gothicus, Aurelian, and even Constantine I (particularly popular among the Christian Mysians).
Mysia, as a unified entity, is fairly young. Most of modern Mysian history is represented by the Republic of Dardania and the Kingdom of Bulgaria, the latter of the two having the longest independent history, more or less. Bulgaria spent much of the Post-Classical Era as the Bulgarian Empire (sometimes called the Myso-Bulgarian Empire and the Thracian Empire), a realm dominated by a Turkic speaking elite who ruled over what was likely a majority Venedic speaking population and a minority speaking Valach, Grecian, and Mysian speaking people. Bulgaria would come to merge with Grecia.
The unity of the two Mysian speaking peoples came with shockingly little conflict. This is largely due to the devastation of the World Order War, which saw the two Mysian realms on opposite sides. The merger of Dardania and Bulgaria was popularly accepted and helped accelerate rebuilding, as well as incorporation of the defeated Bulgaria into the new world order. Modern Mysia has grown largely irreligious, even with nominal adherence to a specific faith. Mysia is constitutionally a secular state and as such, "neutral in questions of belief and conscience"
Religious observance and practice is generally lax today, and polls have shown that, compared to the populations of other countries, few Mysians consider religion to be a dominant factor in their lives. When asked about religion, people refer to their family's historical religious legacy and not to their own choice of faith. Being a secular country today, people are free to choose to believe or not, and to change their faith and beliefs. This has done a great deal to ease the union of the Christian Bulgarians and the Hellene Dardanians, who have grown to view a unified linguistic realm as more important than a divided religious one.