Ingona, previously knonw as Angona, is a city in the Istalian region of Fidelia. The city dominates the homonym gulf and rises around its port. After the terrible earthquake that hit the city in 4380, almost completely destroying it, the city was reborn becoming an important cultural pole of the country, hosting, among other things, the largest cultural and research pole dedicated to the civilizations of ancient Majatra, hosting the largest library dedicated to the works of ancient times.
History[]
Ancient History[]
The city was founded as colony by the already established Selucian colonies in Alaria. Around the foundation of the city there is a legend: it was the gulf of Ingona the place which the god of the sea Neflons indicated to a brave captain from a Selucian colonies, named Ingonium, in search of new land and a new life for him and his clan. Neflons guided the ship of the brave captain within a great storm but then, after days of dead calm, finally Neflons recognized the devotion of Ingonium to whom finally showed the new shores where live. Here the descendants of Ingonium erected a shrine for Neflons which became with the time an important sanctuary with the growing of the city around its port, rising in the protected and calm mouth of the Siricone River. The city then assumed the name of Portus Ingonius which with the time evolved until the current name. Since its foundation the city learned to live together the high seismic activity of the area.
The city remained an important pagan sanctuary also under the overlordship of the Kings of Qolshamih as well as an important trade port for eastern Majatra. It was after the fall of the Kingdom that the city really suffered, hit several time by the rides by part of the invading Ayyadan tribes from the north.
The conquest of the Istalian lands by part of the Augustan Empire, instead, represented the fortune of medieval Angona, elevated to the status of main istalian port because better placed to trade with western Majatra, the hearth of the Augustan Empire.
Modern and Contemporary History[]
Ingona was briefly independent but very soon it was first conquered by the Kingdom of Tulino and then by the Kingdom of Fidelia. The city, however, had lost half of its population during these warring periods and became also easy prey for the raids of the Ahmadi corsairs working for the Great Emirate of Quanzar. The Quanzars finally conquered the city with the whole peninsula in 18th century and since the time the city followed the fate of Istalia under the Emirate of Quanzar and then the Union of Quanzari Soviets.
Finally the city was elevated to provincial capital with the establishment of the First Istalian Republic. Under the Istalian Republics the city returned to grow as important port and trade hub towards the southern nations of Majatra.
On 5 January 4380, the city was hit by one of the country's biggest natural disasters: at 4:38 a.m. a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit the city bringing death and destruction. Nearly a million people was hit by the disaster, left without a home and with most basic services destroyed. The disaster generated a wave of compassion all over the nation with Istalians from all over the country coming in Ingona to help, sending aid and welcoming the refugees. The Government intervened sending the Army to assist the victims and put in place as soon as possible resources to host the displaced persons and began reconstruction. It took months if not more than a year to remove all the debris but the city recovered relatively quickly in the next years.
The post-earthquake reconstructions made the city a scientific and cultural center, with the establishment in and near the city of several important scientific laboratories as well as cultural institutions, like the Majatran Pole for Historical and Ethnographic Studies and annexed Archeological and Ethnographic Museum of Ingona or the Nuclear Research Laboratory of Roccaghiaccia which boast the massive Fusion Ignition Reactor of the National Nuclear Ignition Laboratory.
Administration[]
Government[]
The local form of government of the city follow the model of the mayor–council government system, with a mayor (Fidelian: sindaco) elected by voters, and a unicameral council as the legislative branch (Fidelian: Consiglio). To the mayor is given almost total administrative authority and a clear, wide range of political independence, with the power to appoint and dismiss department heads and furthermore he prepares and administers the city budget, although most part of the decisions must be approved by the council.