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Official Name: Imperivm Svavidici (Umbrial)
Imperium Suavidici (Mercanti)
Ιμπεριυμ Συαυιδικι (Epiphan)
How does one tell the story of the greatest empire ever built? How can the history of the Empire that built monuments that have stood for over two thousand years compare to those who faded into the wastes of time? The history of the Imperium goes back to 753 BC when Kyllian settlers crossed from Iteria to the Insula Palentino. The Great King Suavi defended the settlement from an unnamed Gotic tribe, in honor of the Kings great victories the city was named Suavidicum. The growth of Suavidicum's power began to draw attention from other Kyllian city states along the northern coast of Iteria, the Kyllian league began to assault trading ships coming out of the port of Suavidicum. The conflict came to ahead in 750 when the forces from Suavidicum landed on Iteria and engaged Kyllian forces. After three years of war Suavidici forces crushed the Kyllian league at the battle of Sagentum, where 5,000 Suavidici soldiers crushed a 7,000 man Kyllian army.
Instead of outright conquering the Kyllians, they were made into allies of Suavidicum. The leading sons were sent back to Suavidicum to be hostages, and every year they were required to send a large portion of their young men to serve in the developing legions. The Suavidici began to build many of the public forums that would come to serve as the main gathering places for the Suavidici public life. After the Death of Suavi in 730 BC, the next king Umbra the fat would rein. Umbra is famous for completing the first ring of walls around the city and backing the Palaiologos dynasty in the Epiphani city state of Agopolus. Umbra would die in 725 BC and the next twenty-five years would see three kings rein, all with peaceful expansion of the city of Suavidicum. In 700BC Suavidicum would reach a population of 30,000, expanding outside of its initial walls by several districts. The last king of the Suavidici would be deposed because of his abuses against the vestal virgins, the Imperiums most holy female order at the time. In the monarchies place the Imperium would elect two consuls for a one year term to head their new Respublica, or republic.
Suavidicum and Suavidici control over the Kyllians and the strait continued to expand, harbors and trading posts sprung up along the northern coast of Iteria enriching Patrician families with little to no wealth making its way to the Plebians who did the majority of the labor. Several Plebeian revolts were put down by the legions, eventually the Plebeians being unable to enact reform decided to do a radically different strategy, they left the city. After weeks of the majority of the workforce of the city being unproductive to the Patrician class, political reform granted Plebeians political rights to vote and run for office.
The reforms were tested in 630 BC with the first Kyllian revolt, Suavidici legionaries spent the next five years tearing down Kyllian strongholds and defeating field armies. The peace deal reaffirmed Suavidici control over the Kyllian league, and led to annexations along the northern coast of the continent. Suavidici influence began to spread to the neighboring Kingdom of Hayq. Hayq was a mountain kingdom along the southern boundary of Suavidici control, they were the southern cousins of the Colchis peoples. These kingdoms and peoples were mostly mountain dwellers from Craviter, but the Hayq migrated farther south while land bridges existed across the strait. The other peoples were the Kartveli and the Laege, amongst various other subgroups.
Over the next fifty years the Suavidici and Hayq would enter into numerous border clashes that would eventually lead to the Hayq supporting rebels in the second Kyllian revolt. Over the next ten years Suavidici forces would fight the Kyllians to establish their dominance, until finally they put down the last of the Kyllians and the northern coast of Iteria as fortified. The Sauavidici annexed the Kyllian states and appointed direct governors over the newly formed provinces. The Suavidici and the Hayq would have a seventy years of peace before conflict would arise.
The Suavidici would enter Hayq territory in 500 BC, and within two years the capitol of Hayqan was already besieged the siege lasted three years and Hayqan was razed in 495 BC. Suavidici forces took a third of the people of the city into bondage, a third were killed, and a third were left and integrated into Suavidici society.
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