Bellogaard

Bellogaard, officially the Republic of Bellogaard (Bellogaardian: Ryeblien Beogaardi), is a unitary constitutional republic located in eastern Avanor. Bellogaard is bordered to the north, east, and south by Novogaard, while Yurogaard lies to the southwest, and Cyrogaard to the west. The nation comprises an area of LAND AREA, and is home to 15'771'884 people according to the latest census data. The capital and largest city is Bellogaard, from which the Republic itself gains its name.

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History

History

History

History

Bellogaard is a nation which gained independence and democracy nearly half a century ago, when the Soft Revolutions in eastern Avanor led to the independence of Cyrogaard, Yurogaard, and Olgengaard. Since its modern constitution was founded, the nation has become an emerging democratic power, and has become a tourist hub. According to the Avanor Union, the nation has a robust system of constitutional protections for its people, and systems in place to ensure the rule of law, and free and fair elections. The nation has become a center of development, with its main industries focused in high tech engineering, electronics, machine-building, steel production, automotive manufacturing, and the processing of pharmaceuticals. The nation, however, is primarily a service based economy, with a focus on research and development, software development, nanotechnology, and life sciences. Its main agricultural products are cereals, as well as various meads and other alcoholic beverages.

Etymology
The region we refer to as Bellogaard today gained this name early on, it is believed. When the Gaardic people inhabited the region in the late 200's BCE, it is believed that the lands were referred to as Bollygaard, meaning "beautiful land", and this evolved into Bielygaard, the modern Bellogaardian word for the nation, with the same meaning. The first written account using the name comes, not from the Bellogaardians themselves, but from the Imperials, where certain records from their military outposts in the east dating back to the 150s BCE referred to a people in the far east as Belligae (the Augustine word for Bellogaard), who produced a number of meads and lagers, for which they were given pelts and iron tools. The name Bellogaard was officially adopted when the nation was organized as an Imperial Duchy of the Novogaardian Empire in 1310.

Citizens of Bellogaard are referred to as Bellogaardians.

Prehistory
Bellogaard was originally inhabited by Thanic peoples, who migrated into the region from the east in the 12,000s BCE according to the earliest archeological evidence. Scholars today believe that the first peoples migrated to the region following game such as deer, roaming cattle, horses, and mammoths. Many scholars believe the ancient Thanic people of the region settled along the rivers and hills of the region, likely working with tools of iron and bronze to farm the region. The pre-classical Thanic culture which dominated the north and east of the Avanoran continent was not monolithic, but rather was a collection of tribes and clans which spoke a similar dialect and worshipped similar deities. Many historians today believe that the importance of deities varied by region and clan, as some put more emphasis on different aspects of life than others - such as in Bellogaard, where the god of the rains found its way into many ancient Thanic artworks in the area, and was widely prayed to, likely for the region's agricultural yields, and likely to ensure that the Odierr River did not flood.

It is clear that the Thanic peoples of the region had an advanced trade network, as while Imperial troops never made their way into Bellogaard, nor brought Imperial civilization to the region, many imperial goods, customs, and innovations still made their way into the region via trade routes with other Thanic groups which were closer to the empire.

There has been some speculation amongst historians if Bellogaard was the described "Avinterii" as described by the historian Veter Marciem in his "Compendium of the World", written in 682 BCE, though some argue that the described "Avinterii" could have been Cyrogaard, Novogaard, or even somewhere beyond, though speculation on the matter still continues.

Low Middle Ages
Bellogaard soon became the battleground between the Gaardic and Thanic peoples, as the Gaardic moved into the region, displacing the Thanic tribes that had once lived there, or otherwise assimilating them en masse into the Bellogaardian culture. As the Gaardic people migrated into the region, they settled into former Thanic towns and villages, with the city of Bellogaard becoming the largest in the region by 813 CE. During this period, the Bellogaardians fought several wars with other Gaardic peoples, especially the Petroaardians, for control over the hilly region.

Industrialization
Bellogaard's In 1878, after years of occupation by Novogaardic forces and the withdraw

Geography
Bellogaard is a primarily hilly nation which sits in eastern Avanor, with the nation's geography mainly defined by the features of its many hills, rivers, and forests.

The nation's southern region is home to the Cyril Mountains, which extend southwards into Cyrogaard and then further into the Streltic Peninsula. These mountains become rolling hills throughout the country's central regions, while the Odierr Forest begins in the nation's northeast and extends southwest towards the centre of the country, and then further south towards Morodavia and Cyrogaard.

Bohemia, to the west, consists of a basin drained by the Elbe (Czech: Labe) and the Vltava rivers, surrounded by mostly low mountains, such as the Krkonoše range of the Sudetes. The highest point in the country, Sněžka at 1,603 m (5,259 ft), is located here. Moravia, the eastern part of the country, is also hilly. It is drained mainly by the Morava River, but it also contains the source of the Oder River (Czech: Odra).

Water from the Czech Republic flows to three different seas: the North Sea, Baltic Sea, and Black Sea. The Czech Republic also leases the Moldauhafen, a 30,000-square-meter (7.4-acre) lot in the middle of the Hamburg Docks, which was awarded to Czechoslovakia by Article 363 of the Treaty of Versailles, to allow the landlocked country a place where goods transported down river could be transferred to seagoing ships. The territory reverts to Germany in 2028.

Phytogeographically, the Czech Republic belongs to the Central European province of the Circumboreal Region, within the Boreal Kingdom. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the territory of the Czech Republic can be subdivided into four ecoregions: the Western European broadleaf forests, Central European mixed forests, Pannonian mixed forests, and Carpathian montane conifer forests.

There are four national parks in the Czech Republic. The oldest is Krkonoše National Park (Biosphere Reserve), and the others are Šumava National Park (Biosphere Reserve), Podyjí National Park, and Bohemian Switzerland.

The three historical lands of the Czech Republic (formerly some countries of the Bohemian Crown) correspond with the river basins of the Elbe and the Vltava basin for Bohemia, the Morava one for Moravia, and the Oder river basin for Czech Silesia (in terms of the Czech territory).

Government & Politics
Bellogaard is a constitutional, unitary, parliamentary republic.