Koxor

Le Koxor (ou Kokhor), officiellement le Royaume Démocratique du Koxor (/kɔˈoʁ/; Koxori: o Akhájeka Zarilyr Koxór [ɔ əˈχɑjɪkə ˈzɑɾɪɫər̥ kʰɔˈχor̥]) est une nation sise dans la région d'Alapet sur le continent de Laranie en Alcris, avec des territoires d'outre-mer en Korache. Elle borde Gazva, la République Eriya et l'Union Daounaise à l'ouest et la Mer du Mithran à l'est. Il couvre une superficie de 3,356,784 km2 (1,296,062 mi2), la rend le plus grand pays en Laranie et le deuxième plus grand dans le monde. Koxor est gouverné par un gouvernment unitaire sous une monarchie semi-constitutionnelle conduite par le roi Hamézu IX. Le pôle principal culturel et économique est centré autour de la vallée fluviale de l'Ankoulen, où la capitale Hamézurakel est située, ainsi que des autres majeures zones urbaines, y compris Jezarin, Karej et Timyran.

Habité par peuples Alapetais depuis plus de 10'000 ans, Koxor a été conquis par beaucoup d'empires différents à travers son histoire. Uni premièrement par les Tougrids au 16e siècle AEC, la région a gagné l'indépendance quand l'empire est tombé au bout du 3e siècle EC. Elle a ensuite été unie sous l'hégémonie du Royaume du Lakéna pendant les 700 ans suivants. Koxor, et Alapet ensemble, ont été assujettis par les Eriyas au début du XIIIe siècle, la règle duquel a formé la base du loi moderne à travers across toute la région.

Étymologie
Le nom Gélenien Koxor vient du nom Gazven pour le pays, tour à tour de l'endonyme Kokhor. Ce nom a référé originellement au groupe ethnolinguistique qui a parlé à la langue Koxorie, un sens qui est préservé aujourd'hui à la différence entre les mots Koxorièque (ou Koxoriek en Koxori, qui réfère au peuple de la nation) et Koxori (qui réfère à sa langue). Le nom a été appliqué à une région géographique pendant la Guerre Koxorièque d'Indépendance (1491–1497) contre l'Empire Eriya, principalement par les chef de la rébellion pour inspirer le sens de l'unité entre les armées diverses qui étaient fidèles à eux. Cet usage provient, via Vieux Koxori Kòxōlä, enfin du mot en Proto-Alapetique *kʊkʰola "peuple (natif)", et ainsi est un cognat avec le Gazven gokoula "indigène" et le Daounais kuhel "tribu".

Histoire
Article principal: Histoire du Koxor

The first evidence of human habitation in Koxor dates to around 11,000 BCE. The Kareleir cave in modern Itekha County contains a series of hand-paintings done by these Neolithic inhabitants of the Ankhulen valley. Written records are non-existent until c. 2500 BCE, with the earliest inscriptions written in the Proto-Khorensin script. By this time, the speakers of the Southern Alapetic languages had become distinct from those of the Northern languages, as is clear from the now-extinct language of these inscriptions. Most of the small city-states that inhabited Alapet at this time were only along the eastern coast, away from the steppe nomads to the east. The coast of this region is infertile, so the cities relied mainly on internal trade to build wealth. One of the cities, Khore, along the Ankhulen river, began to dominate the area in the early 2nd millennium BCE, organising its traditional faith into the first aspects of the Khorensi religion.

Khore reached its height under the reign of Ohyul III (c. 1884 – c. 1850 BCE) and Ikam (c. 1847 – c. 1822 BCE). These two rulers greatly expanded Khoren influence, uniting the cities of the Ankhulen Valley and the surrounding coastlines. After the 1800s BCE, the Khoren kingdom began a gradual decline that would end in c. 1714 BCE when the city was finally sacked and destroyed by a people known as the Ipeduk. This presumed nomadic tribe apparently set up a kingdom that lasted a few decades before its own collapse. The Koxoriek coast returned to the control of separate city-states. Many of these cities attempted to gain dominance in the region and unite it against the repeated raids by tribes from the Alapetek steppe; these included Mironek, Atanula and Itekes, the latter of which had managed to unite most of the Ankhulen valley by the end of the 17th century BCE.

This hegemony was not to last, however: in the early part of the following century, a group of nomadic peoples from the steppe, known to the locals as the Tugrites, invaded the valley. They captured Itekes in 1588 BCE, declaring their own empire. Unlike the Ipeduk a century earlier, this new state was stable enough to avoid collapse, and over the next few centuries would develop into one of the most prosperous empires in Alapet's history. The Tugrites initiated trade with the rest of the southern Laranian coast, opening up the markets of Ankhulenia to the wider world. Alapetek raw materials were exported as far as Paravantir and Avanor. The region entered a golden age of peace and prosperity that would last for over 500 years.

By the mid-11th century BCE, successive weak kings had caused Tugrite control to falter. When King Kulipne III (r. c. 1043 – c. 1030 BCE) died, a civil war split the empire between his four sons. A confederation of Ghazvan tribes under a leader probably called Tseghan took advantage of this instability and invaded, burning the Tugrite capital to the ground and taking control of the empire in c. 1025 BCE. During this time, the Imeniska, the second book of the Khorensi holy text, was written, the beginning of which describes a century of oppression of Khorensi worshippers by the invaders. The historical reliability of this is disputed: in reality, Tseghan probably died around 30 years after the conquest, and his kingdom crumbled soon after. The Imeniska also describes a figure called Deketi who drove out the Ghazvans and allowed the Khorensi and their prophet Imen to live in peace. Though Deketi probably existed, it is more likely that the invaders left of their own accord once their king had died.

With the departure of the steppe raiders, the Middle Period of Tugrite history began. A king named in the Tugrite sources as Duket, who may have been the same person as, or a basis for, the character of Deketi, ruled in the early 900s BCE. In a sort of retaliation, he embarked on a series of campaigns into the steppe to subjugate the tribes there.