Milevian Confederacy
Milevian Empire | |||||
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Capital | Phamphar (de facto) | ||||
Languages | Imperial Milevian Old High Czisilian Others | ||||
Government | Elective monarchy | ||||
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• | X | name nameson (first) | |||
Legislature | Stewards' Council | ||||
Historical era | Late Middle Ages | ||||
• | Established | 1200s | |||
• | Collapse | 1600s | |||
Today part of | Czisilia Farmosh Kaisen Others |
The Milevian Empire was a somewhat loose confederation of Milevic chiefdoms in eastern Parshita. It existed from X until its collapse in X.
The empire was founded upon and organised around a unique system of clans and sodalities wherein ruling clans of chiefdoms would band together regardless of kin to form a guild that performed a certain function (for example, a fishing sodality). This was a voluntary association as opposed to a system of vassalage, and as such the individual chiefdoms enjoyed a great degree of autonomy prior to the later years of the empire. Within the empire this system allowed regions to become specialised in the provision of a particular good or service. The ruling clans of each region elected a 'steward' to oversee business and resolve disputes.
Terminian influence and attempts to centralise the empire led to its downfall in the 17th Century. In the years following its collapse the former empire was conquered and incorporated into the Terminian Far East.