About: The West Republics

Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: The West Republics Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

In 1450 explorers for the Aquitanian Kingdoms discovered the Island of Eire the seat of the High King of the lands of Hibernia. Hibernia at this time was an old celtic culture governed by a patchwork of Lords who swore allegiance to the High King in a medieval fashion. Trade between the Aquitanian and Hibernian Kingdoms was immedietly established a burgeoning trade as Aquitanian merchants purchased the abundant stores of Alpacan wool from the Hibernian Lords in exchange for Gold and Aquitanian Wines.

Attributes	Values
rdfs:label	The West Republics
rdfs:comment	In 1450 explorers for the Aquitanian Kingdoms discovered the Island of Eire the seat of the High King of the lands of Hibernia. Hibernia at this time was an old celtic culture governed by a patchwork of Lords who swore allegiance to the High King in a medieval fashion. Trade between the Aquitanian and Hibernian Kingdoms was immedietly established a burgeoning trade as Aquitanian merchants purchased the abundant stores of Alpacan wool from the Hibernian Lords in exchange for Gold and Aquitanian Wines.
dcterms:subject	Countries
abstract	In 1450 explorers for the Aquitanian Kingdoms discovered the Island of Eire the seat of the High King of the lands of Hibernia. Hibernia at this time was an old celtic culture governed by a patchwork of Lords who swore allegiance to the High King in a medieval fashion. Trade between the Aquitanian and Hibernian Kingdoms was immedietly established a burgeoning trade as Aquitanian merchants purchased the abundant stores of Alpacan wool from the Hibernian Lords in exchange for Gold and Aquitanian Wines. In 1475 a great plague broke out in Hibernia which killed a million people or about a third of the population this occured in confluence with a war of succession between several claimants to the High Throne. This decimated the Hibernian Kingdoms and in 1505 a fleet ships from The Greater Aquitanian Empire landed in Eire and Lord Backer took control of the Capital city. Several Lords in Mainland Hibernia resisted however most recognized the Aquitanians as the new governors and Hibernia was officially declared a colony of The Greater Aquitanian Empire in 1507. After receiving allegiance from Hibernia Aquitania continued to expand conquering and colonizing other kingdoms in the West Walton region (named so as it was land West of Walton an ancient Aquitanian King) including north of Hibernia into the free Kingdoms (Kingdoms not having pledged allegiance to the High King) aswell as lands south accross the Hibernian Gulf in the mostly uninhabited penninsula of Rein (Modern Day Warsaw) Many indigenous lords were replaced over the years with Aquitanian nobility pushing along assimilation of the already similar cultures by 1700 30% of Hibernian nobles could trace their ancestry back to Aquitanian nobility and heritage most of these nobles were placed in the wealthiest and most populous provinces. Many common people immigrated from Aquitania aswell to claim land for themselves as the restrictions on commonors owning land were abolished in 1680. Many became potato or wheat farmers and the brewing of old Hibernian beer became a large export industry along with Hibernias famous wool, this brought new wealth to the colonies and several banks were established which made money offering loans to neighbors in the region especially the Constantinos to the north. In 1740 Aquitania enetered the Wars of Expansion with neighbors in their region. Previously Aquitania had ruled the colonies minimally however with the advent of the war a draft was instituted in the colonies to provide for musketmen in the rifle legions. This caused much tension and at the close of the war even though Aquitania was victorious an export and sales tax was instituted on the colonies to help pay for the war. Smuggling became a national pastime and in response Aquitania sent more ships and soldiers which needed to be housed in the private homes of citizens putting further strain on relations. Along with the strenuous relations between mother country and colony a great wave of enlightenment began as printing press technologies reached Hibernia a national newspaper began to be printed owned by Harris Swann, an old Celtic nobleman, in 1760 called The Eire Gazette which dug up muck on the Aquitanian nobility. In 1765 a Pamphlet called Common Sense was released espousing republican ideals and basic human rights that were being violated by the "Aquitanian regime". In 1776 the first battle of the revolution was fought when Aquitanian riflemen marched on the town of Darry to capture arms that were being stockpiled by an unfriendly local militia. The local militia met the Aquitanian troops just outside the town and shots were fired begginging the War for Independence.

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software