Augustine

Augustine, officially the Augustine Republic, is a federal constitutional republic located in southwest Avanor. Bordered to the north by Caliane, to the northeast by Averra, to the east by Nalore, to the south by the Avanoran Sea, and to the west by the Adiantic Sea, the nation's borders encompass nearly LAND AREA square kilometers, and has a population of 101'189'990 people according to the latest census data. The capital and largest city is the ancient city of Augustine, though other important settlements throughout the nation are Nervis, Oea, Flaviae, and Aesica.

Augustine had its origins in the aftermath of the classical period, when Decletian the Great was crowned Emperor in Augustine by the Great Octum in 412 CE. Augustine would go on to fight numerous wars, defeating Thanic invaders from the north, while also conquering Nalore and Caliane by 810 CE. Augustine would become independent under Gaiva I in 1123 after the Imperium was split between the three children of the old emperor.

Augustine is a Great Power, and is a member of the Union of Nations, as well as the Avanor Union. The nation is also a member of the World Council, and the Avanor Defense Organization, taking an active role in world politics, defense, and diplomacy. The nation is also a leading economy, with a strong social market economy, marked by high levels of prosperity and innovation. The economy relies on its reputation for its strong and creative businesses, its innovation, and its reputation as a source of luxury goods. Important industries include tourism, viticulture (having the largest wine production in the world), agriculture, financial services, fashion, machinery, food, and luxury goods.

Prehistory

 * 2800s BCE Augustine as a city is founded as a trading outpost of the classical Paravantene Empire. According to the legends of Augustine, the city was founded by 500 slave children who were left alone on the place where the River Tritius forks into the Green and Blue Tritius. These slave children created a settlement which soon attracted local Auene people to the region, and eventually the city submitted to membership in the Paravantene Empire for protection, but retained its autonomy.
 * 2500 BCE a decline in Paravantene power due to the Second Khudari-Paravantene War led to Augustine operating with basically independence. Between 2200 BCE - 1900 BCE the Augustine subjugated the other Auene cities in its region: mainly Nervis, Flaviae, and Veii to its will.
 * 1700 BCE is when the Augustine truly began its mercantile ways - subjugating cities and towns to its power through trade means, allowing them to keep their cultures and internal structures, as long as the mercantile families, who had organized into the Imperianstrium, were recognized as supreme. By the end of this century, the entirety of modern Augustine would be under the Imperium's control.
 * 1690-1650 BCE are the Nalorene Wars. Paravantir attempted to reassert its waning influence in Nalore, but the Auene peoples in the region called to Augustine for aid. The Imperianstrium invaded and fought three wars before subjugating both Nalore and Paravantir itself to the Imperium. In the process a nomad named Gabriel began preaching against the greedy ways of the Imperium's elite, and preaching "the word of the divine", for which he would be burned at the stake. His followers went on to found the Divine Sanctum.
 * In 1500s BCE the Imperium went on numerous campaigns into Caliane. These wars proved to be difficult on the Imperium, and though the caliantene were eventually subjugated to the Imperium by 1510 BCE, the draining conflicts halted Imperial expansion for the time being.
 * 1400-1200 BCE the First Peaceful Era in which the realm stabilized and introduced a road system to link its mercantile cities.
 * 1100s BCE the Imperium attempts to take the Midlands, and establishes Ansberg as a city from which to launch raids on the Thanic peoples.
 * 1000 BCE the Khudari attempt to retake the Paravantine Peninsula, but fail as the Imperium sends troops to Paravantir's aid.
 * 800 BCE The Divine Sanctum replaces the Auene Faith as the main religion of the Empire.
 * 400 BCE Imperianstrium infighting leads to the lack of payment to the imperium's mercantile forces, leading to many of their soldiers to stop fighting.
 * 300 BCE the Imperiums lack of armies leads to loss of territory in the Midlands by an influx of of Thanic peoples beginning to be pushed west by the incoming Gaardic peoples. Meanwhile the shipping lanes of the south come increasingly under strain by Khudari pirates.
 * 200 BCE Imperial authority on its last legs. Pushed entirely out of the Midlands by this point, the imperium's hold on Nalore and Caliane was only in name as the army struggled even to keep the lucrative southern trade routes open to the capital.
 * 1 BCE: Thanic peoples sack the imperial capital. Ending the Imperium.

Augustine Imperium

 * The Thanic sack of Augustine was fairly light in nature, and it was not truly the sack in itself that caused the imperium's fall, but the loss of authority it suffered from 400 BCE onwards. With the loss of Imperial backing, the puppet kings on the Paravantene peninsula were conquered by the Khudari, with a new Khudari Civilization stretching the entirety of northern Korasha.
 * Richer families from the Imperium were able to repel Thanic invaders and cemented their rule over their manor houses, surrounding areas, and more. Though the Imperial capital was abandoned as peasants left for farms and land in the countryside.
 * Construction of the Gabrieline Palace by the Emperor Aurellius I in 315 CE.
 * 488 CE Nactos I invdes the Nalore and conquers it.
 * 502 CE Caliantene is captured by Decletian III
 * 650-658 CE: war in the Slovecia and Morodavia as attempts to annex the regions into the imperium fail.
 * 743-756 CE: The Khudari are driven out of Paravantir by the Imperium, and the Second Paravantene Empire is founded.
 * 918 CE: War between the Octum and the Emperor breaks out over who holds political power. Octum's forces are subjugated by the efforts of Nactos IV (Nactos the Cruel)