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The history of Atlia includes the beginning of human habitation of the continent from the 9th century AD and on wards. Groups of the Bantu were the first humans to reach Atlia, with Muslim Swahili-speaking traders sailing from seaside cities in Madagascar and reaching the continent around 887. The Swahili traders established outposts on the northern and western coasts of the continent, some of which grew into prominent city states. Limited settled took place further inward, and the Swahili generally remained coastal and highly maritime.

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  • The history of Atlia includes the beginning of human habitation of the continent from the 9th century AD and on wards. Groups of the Bantu were the first humans to reach Atlia, with Muslim Swahili-speaking traders sailing from seaside cities in Madagascar and reaching the continent around 887. The Swahili traders established outposts on the northern and western coasts of the continent, some of which grew into prominent city states. Limited settled took place further inward, and the Swahili generally remained coastal and highly maritime.
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  • The history of Atlia includes the beginning of human habitation of the continent from the 9th century AD and on wards. Groups of the Bantu were the first humans to reach Atlia, with Muslim Swahili-speaking traders sailing from seaside cities in Madagascar and reaching the continent around 887. The Swahili traders established outposts on the northern and western coasts of the continent, some of which grew into prominent city states. Limited settled took place further inward, and the Swahili generally remained coastal and highly maritime. In 1304, Muhammed Hamidi ibn al-Swarizi led the Golden March that unified the Swahili city states, founding the Kinyati Sultanate. The sultanate would continue to rule over the Swahili inhabited lands of Atlia until 1507, when the arrival of the Portuguese navy began to exact strong restrictions on Kinyati trade. This resulted in the short Kinyati-Portuguese War, which saw the destruction of the Kinyati fleet and the creation of a Portuguese hegemony over Atlia. The Portuguese would use the Swahili ports of Atlia as bases of trade for rounding the Cape of Good Hope, and the cities grew with a large influx of Portuguese immigrants. In 1541, after a massive cholera epidemic decimated the population of the islands, the Swahili began open revolt against the Portuguese, leading to the eventual Swahili Exile and the collapse of all but one Portuguese naval stations. The Iberian Union in Europe allowed for the Spanish Empire to set it sights on the Indian Ocean, and the weak presence of any formal settlement on Atlia provided the opportunity to establish a new Spanish colony with a lack of indigenous interference. Hence, in 1591, José Roberto Morrelo Sarquis led a small fleet of colonists to established the port of Santa Catarina, which became the first permanent European civilian colony on Atlia. Santa Catarina quickly prospered, encouraging further Spanish settlement and seeing the creation of the Province of New Murcia in 1612. The Spanish colony became one of the wealthiest in its empire, and in 1643, it was raised to the Viceroyalty of New Murcia. The colonial government also began to offer opportunities of settlement to Sicilians and English Catholics in order to further bolster immigration to the colony. The Italians would congregate on on the idyllic coasts of the colony, while the English would trek inland into the uninhabited forest highlands. This open immigration policy would continue until the War of the Spanish Succession broke out in 1701, prompting colonial authorities to tighten down on foreign settlement.
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