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Quanzar is the name by which various political entities have been known that have existed throughout history in east Majatra.

The first official attested use of the name is that for the Grand Emirate, or more commonly, Empire of Quanzar, existed from the middle age until the down of the contemporary era and which encompassed most of eastern Majatra. After the fall of the Empire, the name Quanzar was used by several political entities established within the borders of current day Istalia: the Emirate of Quanzar, established on the Sarrentina Peninsula and which then conquered also the island of Alaria, its succeeding state the Union of Quanzari Soviets, the three artanianized and hosian monarchy established in Istalia by the House of Hessex and finally the most recent, the Community of Quanzar, constituent nation of both the Union of Quanzar and Alaria and the Istalian Union of Quanzar and Alaria.

Etymology[]

The name Quanzar came after Al Quanzar, the name of the ruling royal family of the Empire of Quanzarwhich, after the fall of their multinational empire, fled on the Sarrentina Peninsula where they ruled on an Emirate until the down of the contemporary era.

History[]

Empire of Quanzar[]

Main article: Empire of Quanzar

The Empire of Quanzars was the most important, larger and remarkable majatran political entity in the history of the continent and of the Majatran ethnicity and deeply marked also the history of the Ahmadi faith. Together with the Majalids, the Quanzars were responsible for the emergence of the Majatran language and culture after centuries during which it was eclipsed by Classical Brmek and Jelbic culture, making rise the Majatran language to equal status to Classical Brmek as language of Ahmadi high culture and civilization, and contributing to make become the Majatran people the dominant ethnic group throughout Eastern Majatra.

Emirate of Quanzar[]

Main article: Emirate of Quanzar

The Emirate was the nation which occupied the current territory of Istalia since 1934 when the Quanzar emirs moved the center of their power in the Sarrentina Peninsula after the fall of their Empire once lost the territories in Solentia, Kafuristan and Kalopia. The Emirate, like the Empire, fought constantly against the Kingdom of Istalia, on the island of Alaria which eventually was conqueres in 1958 bringing together the Istalian territories for the first time in history. The Emirate was an absolute and feudal monarchy for most of its history and despite some democratic reforms, a socialist revolution at the beginning of 22th marked its fall.

Union of Quanzari Soviets[]

The Union was established by Majatran communist forces who emerged as the real winners among the different political groups arisen during the socialist revolution. They believed that a socialist society was the best system to modernize the nation and to promote a peaceful coexistence between the Majatrans and the Istalians. Despite the efforts made by the socialist, democratic and atheist propaganda to overcome the ethnic and cultural differences between its population, actually the minoritarian majatran component continued to rule the country with little consideration for the Istalian population which, being in any case a majority, gradually began to take over aimed to establish a veritable Istalian nation and to put an end to what was still seen as a foreign domination. The Istalians succeeded in their intent in 2233 when the Quanzarian Republic was created and which eventually became the First Istalian Republic in 2266.

Royal Union of Quanzar and Holy Empire of Quanzar[]

This was the first of the three monarchical regimes established in Istalia by the House of Hessex, a family of Solentian origin who had originated from a cadet branch of the House of Kansar, in turn an artanianized and hosian family descending from the ancient majatran and ahmadi Emirs of Quanzar. The House of Hessex and its political arms exploited a deep political crisis which the First Istalian Republic was experiencing since the beginning of 27th century sizing the power into the country supported by a coalition by the majatrans and large masses of solentians who were flooding Istalia escaping the Totalitarian regimes which from centuries were ruling in Solentia. The Hessexian regime adopted harsh measures to repress the Istalian culture for the advancement of the artanianized Solentian culture into the country, going so far as to prohibit the use of the Istalian language and implementing policies of persecution against the Istalian population. Under the second Hessexian King James I, the Royal Union was reformed into the Holy Empire of Quanzar, further enhancing and extending the role and the power of the Noble Houses but finally exacerbating the democratic opposition which finally abolished the monarchy in favor of a democratic regime. Into the re-established democratic political framework, as understandable, the Istalians in a few years were able to come back to the power to the detriment of the Solentians and Majatrans establishing the Second Istalian Republic.

Kingdom of Quanzar[]

Main article: Kingdom of Quanzar

Once again a crisis within the stagnant Second Istalian Republic and a new massive wave of solentian refugees, who fled south after the final collapse of the Calydon Regency government in Solentia, was the scenario for the coming back to the power of the Hessexian Monarchs. Changes began to erupt, like ethnic clashes between Majatrans and Solentians on one side and the Istalians on the other. Robert Moon, chief councilor of the former Solentian Regent Jack Swindon, was the architect of the return of the Hessexian King and the fall of the Second Istalian Republic. It was the shortest of the Hessexian Monarchies and it is infamously remember for its militaristic stance, aimed to expand its influence in east Majatra, and for the great wall that the regime began to build to stop the flooding of solentians from the neighbouring country, considered excessive for the regimes which realized to be not able to welcome further immigrants. The construction of the Wall marked an infamous page of history which, although protests from democratic groups, saw thousands of prisoners, among them many istalian political prisoners, forced to work on the site with tremendous human loss.

Souther Majatran Union and Kingdom of Quanzar[]

At the end of 33rd century the at the time very nationalistic one-party regime which had seized the power in the Third Istalian Republic fell into the chaos of popular protests if not open revolution against a 150-year old decadent and sluggish regime. Within this chaos once again the House of Hessex profited of the situation still relying on the Solentian and Majatran minorities. This Time, however, the regime was far less authoritarian than the previous ones and even less repressive toward the Istalian identity, trying a more complacent approach also because the Hessexians had far more difficulties to hold over the Istalians and because the Majatran and Solentian minorities were less consistent. The progressive erosion of power by part of the Istalians pushed in 3351 the Quanzarian authorities to appease them with a reform which granted them equal rights and rebaptized the country as Union of Quanzar and Istalia. Despite this ettemps, the definitive defeat of the Hessexians against the Istalians came in 3363 when the Istalians re-established the Republic and asserted definitively their own rule on their homeland.

Community of Quanzar[]

The Community of Quanzar was established as a sovereign nation on the Sarrentina Peninsula after the fall of the Sixth Istalian Republic by separatist forces in the aftermath of the military junta led by Tommaso Tivoli, aimed to put an end to an unified Istalia to boast the interests of the peninusula. It was a constituent part of the Union of Quanzar and Alaria between 5033 ans 5074 and of the Istalian Union of Quanzar and Alaria between 5080 and 5103. The separatists and anti-Istalian forces were determined to establish an independentist legacy in contrast with the unified Istalian heritage, convinced that this would have prevented in future the establishment of other dictatorships into the country and that the large majatran minority present on the peninsula has for too long been forcibly overwhelmed by Istalian nationalism. For this reasons, to break with the Istalian unified past, they decided to resume the ancient name of Quanzar and to adopt several other measures to enhance the internal cultural, linguistic and ethnic differences at the expense of the previous unified istalian identity. These policies, however, generated a resurgence of istalian nationalism which soon after the establishment of the Union began to advocate for the re-establishment of an unitarian istalian state, challenging for the next seventy years the separatist forces which at the end of the century, finally, had to give up. However, a peninsular identitarian sentiment developed in any case and both the Second and the current Third Istalian Empire had to recognize it and to organize the country within a federal framework, with the Sarrentine Federal Community as ideal successor of the peninsular Community of Quanzar, although the reference to Quanzar where removed on the impulse of the istalian nationalists.

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