Areltya

Areltya, officially the Kingdom of Areltya, is a country in eastern Sossis.  

Name

Areltya’s name comes from the Hitan “ha ralat-i”, meaning “the green place”. The region the Tarshans called Areltya is within the eastern stretch of the South Sossian Plain, and would have thus been significantly more verdant than the arid Dischitar they had come out of. After the Tarshans were pushed out of Areltya by the Varani Empire, the name had stuck, and the Varani referred to the region as “Арѣлатı̵а” (Arělatya). The reflex of this in Areltyan, gave “Arialtia”, while neighbouring Vreziy gave “Areltya”. Forms of “Arialtia” tend to be used in Eussis (Varaso and Tratian Arjaltia, Chazhdurm Arźaltą), while forms of “Areltya” are used in Sossis and Tira Vella (Dresh Arěltia, Rossan Арелтя, Tira Vellan Αρελτία).  

History

Prehistory

During the Bronze Age, the Cnissites lived in Areltya.  

Areltya Under the Dvekmenu and Varani Empires

Areltya, referred to at the time simply as “the eastern lands”, became an important breadbasket for the empire, along with Derash and Luscovy. The peoples who lived in these lands at the time were not Duekmen, and some were potentially not Oecumeno-Davanians, though unfortunately very little is definitively known about them, though non-Dvekmenu Vannic peoples did live in the northwest. What is clear is that over the course of the reign of the Duekmen, the peoples of Areltya assimilated into Duekmen culture or were replaced by them. By the end of the empire in 618, Areltya and the people living there had become thoroughly Dvekmenu and the non-Dvekmenu languages spoken there before the Dvekmenu conquest had become extinct or moribund.   The region was raided frequently by Dischitic peoples from the south.  

Emergence of Areltya

 

Varaso-Areltyan Wars

Varaso-Areltyan wars Dvekmenu invasions of the Dischitar  

Varaso Conquest and the General Crisis

Areltya would be the only Dvekmenu polity to avoid integration into the Dominion of Dvekmenia  

Orientalising Period

War of the Holy League, conversion, and Varaso cultural influences  

The Xäräy Corridor and Colonial Scramble

Having captured Xäräy (Cherey) from the Sunaïds, Areltya had a port outside the North Sea and was no longer reliant on the Cintra Canal during the autumn and winter months, allowing them as latecomers to the colonial scramble in Aresra. Following the War of Dvekmenian Succession, Dvekmenia’s overseas colonies were transferred to Areltya.