The Welsh island of Anglesey (Mona) was chief religious centre in Celtic Britain. And I've yet to write a page on how Ansuzlagam syncretizes and converts the resident Druids of the island. I need a few places where Ansuzlagam trandscends beyond being the national cult of the Sweboz by establishing independent cult centres in lands outside the Federation. That way, the native tribal entities of Britain, Scandinavia, and the Celto-Germanic kingdoms of the Bastarnae and the Gutanz (Goths) won't be under some direct theological sway by the Sweboz.
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Aggression and Conquest
Alright, it's time to dig this treasure up again. (Don't bother with pirate jokes.
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So far we've establish the advance of religions, variating from the Ansuzlagam to the Ahuralim, which is, to say the least, quite interesting.
Since I've been taken an interest in Stoicism lately, or at least, I'll still have to purchase the book "Stoic Warriors" by Nancy Sherman, I can't help but wonder about the role Stoicism takes place in this alternate timeline.
Do you find the concept of a kingdom taking on stoicism as absolute truth unusual or interesting? Perhaps a bit more detail is required to specify what I truly mean.
Imagine a kingdom whose warriors and even to a large extent are raised with the concept of being stoic. From the moment they were born they were trained to fight, to kill, to conquer, etc. Similar to what Sparta was said to be like with their infants.
Personally I believe that now Rome is out of the picture, we're kind of missing the "I'll conquer your lands no matter how difficult it may be". The kind of aggression that allowed the Romans to ruthlessly continue the first Punic War, the aggression that made them feared across the known world.
Well, alright, perhaps I'm exaggerating a bit there, but I've made my point. But alright, I'm drifting off from my original point, Stoicism. Are you going to do something with it and if you are, might I ask what?
Note that if Stoicism was already mentioned in the timeline I apologize. It's been a while.
Alright, it's time to dig this treasure up again. (Don't bother with pirate jokes.
)So far we've establish the advance of religions, variating from the Ansuzlagam to the Ahuralim, which is, to say the least, quite interesting.
Since I've been taken an interest in Stoicism lately, or at least, I'll still have to purchase the book "Stoic Warriors" by Nancy Sherman, I can't help but wonder about the role Stoicism takes place in this alternate timeline.
Do you find the concept of a kingdom taking on stoicism as absolute truth unusual or interesting? Perhaps a bit more detail is required to specify what I truly mean.
Imagine a kingdom whose warriors and even to a large extent are raised with the concept of being stoic. From the moment they were born they were trained to fight, to kill, to conquer, etc. Similar to what Sparta was said to be like with their infants.
Personally I believe that now Rome is out of the picture, we're kind of missing the "I'll conquer your lands no matter how difficult it may be". The kind of aggression that allowed the Romans to ruthlessly continue the first Punic War, the aggression that made them feared across the known world.
Well, alright, perhaps I'm exaggerating a bit there, but I've made my point. But alright, I'm drifting off from my original point, Stoicism. Are you going to do something with it and if you are, might I ask what?
Note that if Stoicism was already mentioned in the timeline I apologize. It's been a while.
Stoicism is a brand of philosphy put forward by Zeno of Citium in the Third Century BCE, and was not in its self a religion. But it was a code of ethics and behavior that was followed by upper-class Greeks and Romans. Figures such as Nero's tutor Seneca and the Emperor Marcus Aurelius subscribed to it. It may persist in its purest form among the Hellenic diaspora in the Sweboz Empire.
As for the ATL faiths of Ansuzlagam (Sweboz Polytheism) and Ahuralim (Arabic Zoroastrianism), the former will soon diverge into different sects and denominations by around OTL 2nd or 3rd Century CE, while the latter will be mostly prevelant among Bedouin tribes, as I've decided to allow the old temple-based form of Judaism to survive in the pre-Muslim Sabaean Kingdom. Judea as an independent state isn't long for this TL, being right between two major powers like Aegogenid Egypt and Megale Syria. And even the Galatian-ruled Trocmian Kingdom of Anatolia looks like a goer.
Stoicism is a product of Hellenistic culture, so will continue to exist in various forms in Hellenic communes and nations. As Stoicism seems to be a kind of mind-over-matter and persuit-of-happiness philosphy, I think it might be compatible with the syncretic Helleno-Zoroastrian religion that will evolve in Megale Syria (formerly the Seleucid Empire).
I think the Stoics and the ancient Spartans would have differed somewhat over the treatment of slaves and children.
Not so. The Sweboz Federation will be replaced from within by a new, dynamic and centralized polity that will make itself known in the Mediterraean world. I think "Sweboz" might be changed to "Suebisk"
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"There can be only one."
Come to think about it, since there isn´t a major collapse of civilisation, could something like the industrial revolution occure centhuries earlier?
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BTW,
I really like this, I discovered this story just yesterday evening and have already read everything from page 1 to 16.
I really like this, I discovered this story just yesterday evening and have already read everything from page 1 to 16.
I've been studying some reconstructed Proto-Germanic and Gaulish word dictionaries in my persuit of social ranks, titles, and key phrases to help this TL stand out. Heres a list.
Ambactos: Gaulish word that describes a servant or bodyguard, and is possibly the root for the English Ambassador.
Argenton: A Gaulish silver-smith, also described as a "money-changer".
Arjos/Ario: Gaulish for lord or nobleman.
Ater: Gaulish for "father".
Bagaudas: Gaulish for "to fight". Were often guerilla fighers or bandits.
Bitu: Gaulish for "World". The Bituriges tribe's name meant "Kings of the World".
Bratu: Gaulish for magistrate or judge.
Briva: Gaulish for bridge.
Caddo: Gaulish, describes a holy person, like a saint.
Catu: Gaulish for battle.
Cauarus: Gaulish for "Giant". Often references warriors of particular renown.
Drungus: Gaulish meaning a "crowd" or "group".
Druhtinaz: Proto-Germanic for "lord", specifically a powerful military leader. "Druhti" means "warband". In this TL, Druhtinaz is the title for the leader of the Sweboz Empire, much as Imperator changed from a high military honour to the office of Emperor of Rome.
Dunum: Gaulish for "stronghold" or "fortress". Usually the suffix of a city name, like "Lugdunum" (Lyons) or "Augustodunum" (Autun).
Epos: Gaulish for "horse". Perhaps a cognate of the Latin "Equus".
Gaesum: Gaulish meaning "spear"
Gauen: Proto-Germanic word to describe a county or a province. The root of the modern German "Gau", and related to the Gothic "Gawi" and the Saxon word "Go".
Harjanaz: Proto-Germanic. Denotes a war-leader elected by his peers to lead an expedition. Ariovistus, an OTL Suebi chieftain and an opponent of Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars, may have held the title. Harjanaz might be the root of the Germanic nobility title of "Herzog", the equivalent of "duke".
Kuniz: Proto-Germanic, perhaps linked with "Kuningaz" or "king", a Kuniz denoted a member of the king's service, or might even have been a princely title.
Landa: Gaulish meaning "field".
Lanu: Gaulish for "flat" or "plain".
Lissos: Gaulish for "court". Maybe the royal residence or palace.
Luct: Gaulish that translates as "tribe" or "part". Perhaps describing a sub-tribal unit, or a region belonging to a tribe.
Magus: Gaulish word that describes a servant or a young man. Perhaps the equivalent of a squire.
Maponos: Gaulish meaning "son".
Maru: Gaulish meaning "great"
Nemeton: Gaulish word to describe a a temple or a sacred place.
Odocos: Gaulish for "elder". Perhaps this could also describe a councillor as well.
Ridanz: Proto-Germanic, translates as "rider" or a horseman.
Rix: Gaulish for "king". Possibly a cognate of the Latin "rex" and the Germanic suffix of "ric".
Teuto/Touto: Gaulish word for tribe. "Toutios" means a tribal leader.
Theudanaz: Proto-Germanic word for a tribal chieftain, as theudi means "tribe" or "people". So Theudanaz may mean "lord of the people". In this TL, the title becomes a regency office.
Thuliz: Proto-Germanic, a root of the Old Norse "Thulr" and the Anglo-Saxon "Thyle", a Thuliz meant "recitor" and was something of a master of ceremonies at the royal court, or a chamberlain. Thuliz could be the root also of "fool" as in a court jester, but might have been a more serious position in earlier centuries.
Tigern: Gaulish for "house".
Uiros Uiramos: Celtiberian word to denote a war-leader.
Ueremos: Gaulish meaning "supreme" or "highest".
Ver: Gaulish for "over" or "above", "superior". Vercingetorix translates as "Over-King of the Marching Men.
Ambactos: Gaulish word that describes a servant or bodyguard, and is possibly the root for the English Ambassador.
Argenton: A Gaulish silver-smith, also described as a "money-changer".
Arjos/Ario: Gaulish for lord or nobleman.
Ater: Gaulish for "father".
Bagaudas: Gaulish for "to fight". Were often guerilla fighers or bandits.
Bitu: Gaulish for "World". The Bituriges tribe's name meant "Kings of the World".
Bratu: Gaulish for magistrate or judge.
Briva: Gaulish for bridge.
Caddo: Gaulish, describes a holy person, like a saint.
Catu: Gaulish for battle.
Cauarus: Gaulish for "Giant". Often references warriors of particular renown.
Drungus: Gaulish meaning a "crowd" or "group".
Druhtinaz: Proto-Germanic for "lord", specifically a powerful military leader. "Druhti" means "warband". In this TL, Druhtinaz is the title for the leader of the Sweboz Empire, much as Imperator changed from a high military honour to the office of Emperor of Rome.
Dunum: Gaulish for "stronghold" or "fortress". Usually the suffix of a city name, like "Lugdunum" (Lyons) or "Augustodunum" (Autun).
Epos: Gaulish for "horse". Perhaps a cognate of the Latin "Equus".
Gaesum: Gaulish meaning "spear"
Gauen: Proto-Germanic word to describe a county or a province. The root of the modern German "Gau", and related to the Gothic "Gawi" and the Saxon word "Go".
Harjanaz: Proto-Germanic. Denotes a war-leader elected by his peers to lead an expedition. Ariovistus, an OTL Suebi chieftain and an opponent of Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars, may have held the title. Harjanaz might be the root of the Germanic nobility title of "Herzog", the equivalent of "duke".
Kuniz: Proto-Germanic, perhaps linked with "Kuningaz" or "king", a Kuniz denoted a member of the king's service, or might even have been a princely title.
Landa: Gaulish meaning "field".
Lanu: Gaulish for "flat" or "plain".
Lissos: Gaulish for "court". Maybe the royal residence or palace.
Luct: Gaulish that translates as "tribe" or "part". Perhaps describing a sub-tribal unit, or a region belonging to a tribe.
Magus: Gaulish word that describes a servant or a young man. Perhaps the equivalent of a squire.
Maponos: Gaulish meaning "son".
Maru: Gaulish meaning "great"
Nemeton: Gaulish word to describe a a temple or a sacred place.
Odocos: Gaulish for "elder". Perhaps this could also describe a councillor as well.
Ridanz: Proto-Germanic, translates as "rider" or a horseman.
Rix: Gaulish for "king". Possibly a cognate of the Latin "rex" and the Germanic suffix of "ric".
Teuto/Touto: Gaulish word for tribe. "Toutios" means a tribal leader.
Theudanaz: Proto-Germanic word for a tribal chieftain, as theudi means "tribe" or "people". So Theudanaz may mean "lord of the people". In this TL, the title becomes a regency office.
Thuliz: Proto-Germanic, a root of the Old Norse "Thulr" and the Anglo-Saxon "Thyle", a Thuliz meant "recitor" and was something of a master of ceremonies at the royal court, or a chamberlain. Thuliz could be the root also of "fool" as in a court jester, but might have been a more serious position in earlier centuries.
Tigern: Gaulish for "house".
Uiros Uiramos: Celtiberian word to denote a war-leader.
Ueremos: Gaulish meaning "supreme" or "highest".
Ver: Gaulish for "over" or "above", "superior". Vercingetorix translates as "Over-King of the Marching Men.
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High time I got this started again.
The Year 218 HSF/ 72 BCE.
The Samnone Druhtinaz Osbehrt ordered his vassal lords to lend up a third of their serfs and slaves from their own estates, while contributing up to 5000 of his his own to work as part of a land deveolpment project that will begin the deforestation of both the kingdoms of Samanoheimat and Markomannoheim. The marshlands around the tributaries of the Rhenos (Rhine) and the Albis (Elbe) rivers are bound to be drained also. The High King Osbehrt intends to increase the availability of arable land in his land to encourage settlement. The cities based between the Rhenos and the Albis, such as Hariowolafzburgaz (OTL Berlin) host up to 150,000 people. The Kingdom of Belgalandam (Belgae) is the most highly populated and urbanized of all Osbehrt's dominions. But commercial shipping from its coaustal ports is in frequent danger from raiding by the Armorican and Cimbro navies.
The punitive expedition sent by King Demetrios III of Bactria fails in its objectve to retake the seccessionist satrapy of Aursia (Caspian coast of OTL modern Kazakhstan). Meanwhile, the resurgent Xiongnu make repeated attacks against Bactrian military outposts in the Tarim region.
Death of the King Aegogeos I of Egypt at the age of seventy-one. He is succeeded by his thirty-eight year old son, also named Aegogeos, whom had been the Epitropos of Upper Egypt before his coronation. During this time, the Kingdom of Judea in the north, despite largely being culturally distinct, becomes evermore dependent on the military support of Aegogenid Egypt given the might of Megale Syria. Hyrcanus II marriage to Nuncia, the princess of the Keltoi House of Aegogeos, earns the Hebrew King the contempt his people, despite his close adherence in the laws of his Moses in all else.
The lucrative Spice trade from Arabia, having become controlled by the Gandharan King Zoilos III, earns the jealousy of the Megale Syrians, especially after the Gandharans raise the price on their exports to the ports of the Persian Gulf. The island states of Teylos (Bahrain) becomes the protectorate of Megale Syria after the Emperor Antigonos I uses the ports of Teylos to act as a base of operations for his fleet to attack the Gandharan merchant convoys.
King Apollonios Tercallos of Trocmia appoints his oldest son, the twenty-four year old Prince Toncommios his regent and co-ruler.
219 HSF/ 71 BCE.
The Ard'druide Taranemeton of Lugdunum (high druid of the Temple of Taranis/Thunrez), Lord Caegila moc Drustan petitions the Verrix Chilperix of Arvernotorg and Armorica to establish a sanctuary for the great number urban poor in the city. This is believed to be the beginning of a practice by the Temple of Taranis as a benefactor of the poor, needy, orphans and invalids. Taranis is already viewed in Sweboz culture as the "People's God". A defender of the downtrodden and the disenfranchised.
King Lutarios of Hayasdan (Armenia) makes a trading treaty with the newly independent Kingdom of Aursia north of the Hyrcanian Sea.
Nuncia, the wife of King Hyrcanus II of Judea, dies giving birth. The child is stillborn. This could put a potential strain on his relationship with King Aegogeos II of Egypt. Emissaries from the court of King Apollonios Tercallos of Trocmia arrive in Jerusalem with an offer for the hand of the King's niece, the Princess Isolda. Apollonios Tercallos, while maintaining his formal friendship with the Megale Syrians, wishes to extend his influence south of the Levant. But Hyrcanus II, seeing the Pharisee support of his rule slipping away, respectfully refused the Trocmian offer of marriage, an decided to choose a bride from among the aristocratic families of the Pharisee faction. King Aegogeos II would secretly correspond with Hyrcanus' younger brother, the Prince Aristobulus, a supporter of the Sadducee faction.
The Persian Gulf witnesses the naval warfare between the navies of Megale Syria and the Kingdom of Gandhara. The quadruple-masted and higher-sterned vessels of the Megale Syrian navy outclass the Quingeremes and Triremes of the Gandharan fleet.
King Harewulfz II of Gutenheim, which is increasingly known as "Getiaheimat", assembles a force of 60,000 to invade the Kingdom of Scordesia, which has been weakened in recent years by civil war and swift dynastic turnover.
The Xiongnu, after many years, have re-asserted their former dominance in the Tarim region, and capture or force into submission the number of Bactrian Apoikeia established there in previous decades. King Demetrios III marshals a taskforce of 47,000 to combat the threat on the eastern frontier.
220 HSF/ 70 BCE.
The Gutanz army of King Harewulfz II successfully conquer and occupy the lands of northern Thace and Mikra Scythia. Now they they march on to the lands of Pannonia and Scorcouw (OTL modern Serbia), the ancient home of the Scordisi.
King Demetrios III of Bactria, with the aid of the talented Strategos Cleirches of Alexandropolis, manage to recover the satrapy of Xiyu (Tarim Basin). Over 20,000 captives were taken among the Xiongnu.
To strenghen his friendship with Egypt, King Hyrcanus II allows the settlement of the Jordan River valley members of the Cleruche-class from Egypt's territories. But entrance within the city of Jerusalem is of course restricted, unless they are in the personal service of the King.
The Sweboz Druhtinaz Osbehrt, as part of his ambitious land development project in Samanoheimat and Markomannoheim, intends for the water being drained from the marshlands to be collected into reservoir basins, to act as a water source for remote settlements. The steady deforestation of the eastern Swebolandam interior is to provide for future settlement. This will lead to people from Scandza, Italia and Belgalandam emigrating to Samanoheimat in steady numbers for years to come.
King Virithius II of Lusitannon dies without issue. Feuds erupt among the native nobility, each of the other chieftain families wishing to possess the kingship for themselves. King Liofa of Aquitae and Sunthwalha sends in a Druhti force to restore order to the client-kingdom. With no one powerful enough to oppose his actions, Liofa seizes the kingship of Lusitannon for himself and his heirs in perpetuity. This begins a series of uprisings amongst the native Lusitani people.
The Year 218 HSF/ 72 BCE.
The Samnone Druhtinaz Osbehrt ordered his vassal lords to lend up a third of their serfs and slaves from their own estates, while contributing up to 5000 of his his own to work as part of a land deveolpment project that will begin the deforestation of both the kingdoms of Samanoheimat and Markomannoheim. The marshlands around the tributaries of the Rhenos (Rhine) and the Albis (Elbe) rivers are bound to be drained also. The High King Osbehrt intends to increase the availability of arable land in his land to encourage settlement. The cities based between the Rhenos and the Albis, such as Hariowolafzburgaz (OTL Berlin) host up to 150,000 people. The Kingdom of Belgalandam (Belgae) is the most highly populated and urbanized of all Osbehrt's dominions. But commercial shipping from its coaustal ports is in frequent danger from raiding by the Armorican and Cimbro navies.
The punitive expedition sent by King Demetrios III of Bactria fails in its objectve to retake the seccessionist satrapy of Aursia (Caspian coast of OTL modern Kazakhstan). Meanwhile, the resurgent Xiongnu make repeated attacks against Bactrian military outposts in the Tarim region.
Death of the King Aegogeos I of Egypt at the age of seventy-one. He is succeeded by his thirty-eight year old son, also named Aegogeos, whom had been the Epitropos of Upper Egypt before his coronation. During this time, the Kingdom of Judea in the north, despite largely being culturally distinct, becomes evermore dependent on the military support of Aegogenid Egypt given the might of Megale Syria. Hyrcanus II marriage to Nuncia, the princess of the Keltoi House of Aegogeos, earns the Hebrew King the contempt his people, despite his close adherence in the laws of his Moses in all else.
The lucrative Spice trade from Arabia, having become controlled by the Gandharan King Zoilos III, earns the jealousy of the Megale Syrians, especially after the Gandharans raise the price on their exports to the ports of the Persian Gulf. The island states of Teylos (Bahrain) becomes the protectorate of Megale Syria after the Emperor Antigonos I uses the ports of Teylos to act as a base of operations for his fleet to attack the Gandharan merchant convoys.
King Apollonios Tercallos of Trocmia appoints his oldest son, the twenty-four year old Prince Toncommios his regent and co-ruler.
219 HSF/ 71 BCE.
The Ard'druide Taranemeton of Lugdunum (high druid of the Temple of Taranis/Thunrez), Lord Caegila moc Drustan petitions the Verrix Chilperix of Arvernotorg and Armorica to establish a sanctuary for the great number urban poor in the city. This is believed to be the beginning of a practice by the Temple of Taranis as a benefactor of the poor, needy, orphans and invalids. Taranis is already viewed in Sweboz culture as the "People's God". A defender of the downtrodden and the disenfranchised.
King Lutarios of Hayasdan (Armenia) makes a trading treaty with the newly independent Kingdom of Aursia north of the Hyrcanian Sea.
Nuncia, the wife of King Hyrcanus II of Judea, dies giving birth. The child is stillborn. This could put a potential strain on his relationship with King Aegogeos II of Egypt. Emissaries from the court of King Apollonios Tercallos of Trocmia arrive in Jerusalem with an offer for the hand of the King's niece, the Princess Isolda. Apollonios Tercallos, while maintaining his formal friendship with the Megale Syrians, wishes to extend his influence south of the Levant. But Hyrcanus II, seeing the Pharisee support of his rule slipping away, respectfully refused the Trocmian offer of marriage, an decided to choose a bride from among the aristocratic families of the Pharisee faction. King Aegogeos II would secretly correspond with Hyrcanus' younger brother, the Prince Aristobulus, a supporter of the Sadducee faction.
The Persian Gulf witnesses the naval warfare between the navies of Megale Syria and the Kingdom of Gandhara. The quadruple-masted and higher-sterned vessels of the Megale Syrian navy outclass the Quingeremes and Triremes of the Gandharan fleet.
King Harewulfz II of Gutenheim, which is increasingly known as "Getiaheimat", assembles a force of 60,000 to invade the Kingdom of Scordesia, which has been weakened in recent years by civil war and swift dynastic turnover.
The Xiongnu, after many years, have re-asserted their former dominance in the Tarim region, and capture or force into submission the number of Bactrian Apoikeia established there in previous decades. King Demetrios III marshals a taskforce of 47,000 to combat the threat on the eastern frontier.
220 HSF/ 70 BCE.
The Gutanz army of King Harewulfz II successfully conquer and occupy the lands of northern Thace and Mikra Scythia. Now they they march on to the lands of Pannonia and Scorcouw (OTL modern Serbia), the ancient home of the Scordisi.
King Demetrios III of Bactria, with the aid of the talented Strategos Cleirches of Alexandropolis, manage to recover the satrapy of Xiyu (Tarim Basin). Over 20,000 captives were taken among the Xiongnu.
To strenghen his friendship with Egypt, King Hyrcanus II allows the settlement of the Jordan River valley members of the Cleruche-class from Egypt's territories. But entrance within the city of Jerusalem is of course restricted, unless they are in the personal service of the King.
The Sweboz Druhtinaz Osbehrt, as part of his ambitious land development project in Samanoheimat and Markomannoheim, intends for the water being drained from the marshlands to be collected into reservoir basins, to act as a water source for remote settlements. The steady deforestation of the eastern Swebolandam interior is to provide for future settlement. This will lead to people from Scandza, Italia and Belgalandam emigrating to Samanoheimat in steady numbers for years to come.
King Virithius II of Lusitannon dies without issue. Feuds erupt among the native nobility, each of the other chieftain families wishing to possess the kingship for themselves. King Liofa of Aquitae and Sunthwalha sends in a Druhti force to restore order to the client-kingdom. With no one powerful enough to oppose his actions, Liofa seizes the kingship of Lusitannon for himself and his heirs in perpetuity. This begins a series of uprisings amongst the native Lusitani people.
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The Year 221 HSF/69 BCE.
The Gutanz King Harewulfz II makes a pact with the corrupt Prince Tincommios of Singidunon, the largest city within the Scordisi realm of Scorcouw. Tincommios aspires to become the Verrix of the Scordisi, so Harewulfz would use him as his candidate for the throne, much to the detriment of the current ruler Toccodos.
Hundreds of Indohellenes settle in the southern ports of China, having come by way of the merchant vessels from the kingdoms of Gandhara and Meghada.
The great architect Torvo moc Diuhdan, the son of a Cavari merchant from Avennio (Avignon) and his Massaliote wife, and who had spent his youth studying in the cities of Alexandreia, Syracuse and Rhodos, has supervised the construction of a massive lighthouse tower, known as the "Tor Tarana", which is located in the Artabrian coast in the land of Calleacia (Corunna, Galicia). Torvo moc Diuhdan would be hired to oversee similar projects in Italia and Cimbrolandam.
King Svein of Cimbrolandam dies of old age He is succeeded by his grandson, the twenty-one year old Prince Ralla. The new King of Cimbrolandam, aside from defendng his realm from the Sweboz, would command considerable influence in foreign policy with the British kingdoms and the tribal alliances of Scandza.
King Zoilos III of Gandhara, growing frustrated with the unceasing naval defeats and attacks on his merchant fleet by the Megale Syrian navy, sets his engineers to the task of designing new warships to reverse the recent spate of attacks.
The Year 222 HSF/ 68 BCE.
A merchant vessel from Tartessos, owned and captained by the Iberian trader Vorviros of Gadir, following rumours, sails far out into the Atlantic, and sights a large island after more than six weeks at sea. The island (OTL Terceira, Azores). Vorviros, and his Phoenician associate Ielech of Qoduba (Cordoba), and their crew spend a week investigating the island before returning to Gadir to spread word of their discovery. The island, named "Vorvirolanda" (Land of Vorviros), becomes a port out in the Atlantic.
King Liofa of Aquitae and Sunthwalha creates a chain of fortresses in the north and west of Iberia to control the rebellious native Callaeci and Lusitanti clans. Liofa fears that his peers among the Sweboz monarchs would manipulate the bitterness of his subjects against him.
King Breagho of Helvetis and Italia sends emissaries and gifts to the Megale Syrian Emperor Antigonos I. To maintain the independence of his realms, Breagho wishes to ally himself with the Syrians, and to marry into the imperial family. King Breagho establishes his royal court at the city of Ravenna.
The forces of King Harewulfz II of Gutenheimat unsuccessfully besieges the city of Tylis. A relief force under the command of Prince Tarculo of Apollonia, a second cousin of King Toccodos, inflicted a stinging defeat on the Gutanz army.
Death of King Apollodotos of Meghada at the age of fifty-four. He is succeeded by his son, the twenty-one year old Prince Menander, now King Menander II.
King Lutarios launches a purging of the native nobility of Hayasdan and Kartli (Georgia) after rumours of uprising began to circulate about the kingdom. Thousands of Armenian nobles and their households begin to quietly emigrate to Megale Syria for refuge from their cruel overlord. Those Armenians that give their oaths to the Emperor Antigonos I serve in his forces in Assyria and Phoenicia, while others move to Persis, Khorasane and Media.
The Year 223 HSF/ 67 BCE.
The Judean Prince Aristoboulos, the younger brother of King Hycanus II, seeks the support of the Megale Syrians in gaining the crown of Judea, on the condition that he becomes a vassal of the Syrain Empire.
The Gutanz forces of King Harewulfz II settle behind the borders of Thrace and Scorcouw. Prince Tincommios of Singidunon becomes the client ruler of Scorcouw, the original homeland of the Scordisi. Harewulfz needs Tincommios to rouse support from the local population in order to reduce resistance against the presence of his forces.
King Breagho of Helvetis and Italia marries Princess Thais, the seventeen year old daughter of the Megas Basileus Antigonos I of Megale Syria. Antigonos, having noted the fractious and declining state of the great barbarian Keltoi empire of the Sweboz in Europe, sees Breagho as a potential ally as well as his instrument for his designs in Old Hellas. That other declining Keltoi state, the Scordisi Empire looks ripe for the taking. But his Galatai Trocmian allies in Anatolia would surely object to Antigonos' ambitions. And the Gutanz that now rule over the old Getai lands are yet to distant for his forces to strike against. Antigonos I hopes that perhaps his new son-in-law Breagho could be convinced to invade the Illyrian territories in Scordesia. Then, Antigonos could send troops to establish a foothold in Achaia, Laconia and Pelopennesia.
King Ralla of Cimbrolandam marries the eighteen year old daughter of King Ludd of the Trinovantis, the Princess Danna. The growing urban populace in the thriving towns in Cimbrolandam gives strengh to the kingdom, with some merchants also setting up shop in the British kingdoms.
King Menander II of Meghada establishes a number of Gymnasions and Stoas throughout his kingdom to accomodate the children of the Hellenic and native Hindu nobility under his rule. Many children of the higher princely Hindu families are given as hostages to the court of the Basileus every year to ensure loyalty and good conduct. The various schools are administered by Buddhist monks and Stoics whom personally are employed by the Crown. The vassal princes to the south give their daughters as wives and concubines to the Meghadan superiors, while some of the more loyal among them would marry the daughters and nieces of King Menadner II.
The Xiongnu forces converge on the satrapy of Xiyu once more, and overrun the territory. If that was not enough for the government of King Demetrios III of Bactria to handle, the satraps of Gedrousia and Arachosia, Hippolytas and Zeno were enemies of the Chiliarch Basilikon, Phanakes of Eschate, were denounced as traitors when Phanakes informed his king that they had secretly corresponded with the Syrian Emperor Antigonos I their desire to defect their respective satrapies to Syrian rule. It was true that each satrap had commanded enormous loyalty among their staffs, regional forces and citizens, and the fact that any attempt to remove them would be strongly resisted. However, even though Phanake's assertion of treason was a falsehood, neither Hippolytas and Zeno would risk exposing themselves by reporting to Bactra. Facing no choice, both governors would have send messengers to Seleukeia to genuinely switch their alliegences.
The Year 224 HSF/ 66 BCE.
The Megale Syrians and the partisans of Prince Aristoboulos capture the city of Jerusalem. Aristoboulos becomes King and High Priest of Judea. Hycanus and his followers flee Judea for Egypt, where they become the permanent guests at the court of King Aegogeos II.
King Apollonios Tercallos of Trocmia, whom has transformed his tribal kingdom into that of a regional power in Anatolia, dies at age sixty. He is succeeded by his thirty-year old son and co-ruler, King Toncommios I.
King Harewulfz II assembles another army of 25,000 for his next assault against Scordesia.
The Megale Syrian Emperor Antigonos I marshals a force of 53,000, and ferrie them to Cyprus in the first month of the year. Once the rest of the fleet is assembled, the twenty-nine year old Prince Cassander, a renowned general and heir to the throne, takes command and sails for Hellas, landing in Achaia after two weeks at sea. Athens was unprepared for the invasion and fell within days. Prince Cassander refrained from sacking the city. Emissaries were sent to the Boule of the League of Kydonia in Crete, where they persuaded the Archon Nicanor to lend military aid to the Megale Syrian force. Nineteen thousand Cretan soldiers landed in Sikyon.
The Emperor Antigonos I would also raise an army of 24,000 from Persis, Media and Babylonia to assist the confederate former Bactrian satraps of Gedrousia and Arachosia. Both Zeno and Hippolytas send their sons to Seleukeia Basilike.
Raids from the Numidian pirates in Qorsim (Corsica), Sardin (Sardinia) and Sicilia provoke the Sydrion of Syracuse to assemble another force to punish the Numidians, who were growing increasingly bolder in their expeditions.
King Ralla of Cimbrolandam, after punishing another uprising among the clans of the Scandza Peninsula, orders the defeated chiftains to give him their children to his capital of Alebu(OTL Aalborg) as hostages, and posts up to 30,000 part-time troops to the peninsula. Their families are encouraged to travel with them. Resistance to this measure would be severely punished with the destruction of whole villages and mass enslavement. The native Scandza clans would have to quietly accept their subjugation and the colonization of their ancestral homelands.
The Year 225 HSF/ 65 BCE.
The satrapeia of Xiyu becomes irretrievable to the forces of Bactria after the Battle of Tavasdes, a vast plain in the northern Tarim Basin. The survivors of the military taskforce have been recalled to Bactria by King Demetrios III, as he prepares for the invasion of the rogue satrapies of Gedrousia and Arachosia. The Hellenic colonists in Xiyu have to find what contentment they can get under the rule of the Xiongnu.
Carthage and Thapsos are besieged by a 28,000 strong Sicilian army. Eleven thousand, under the command of the Strategos Doropses of Panai, attempt to capture Thapsos, while the other 16,000 threaten the city of Carthage, under the command of the Polemarchos Achaias of Croton.
After the fall of Sparta to the allied Syrian-Cretan forces led by Prince Cassander, the other cities of Laconia voluntarily submit to the invaders.
King Breagho of Helvetis and Italia, the northern provinces of which are alternately known as "Boialanda" or "Bonnlandam", personally leads a force of up to fifty-thousand troops to the ancient land of Epeiros, which has experienced Scordisi rule for two hundred years. The sacking of cities, such as Ambrakia, Phoenice, Passaron, Chaonia, Molossia, Olympa, Dexaroi, Bothrota and other smaller villages occur, with the enslavement of tens of thousands of native Epirotes, whom were basically serfs of the Scordisi. The Helveti-Boialandan force of Breagho is met by a 14,000 strong Scordisi army under the leadership of the Prince Tychos moc Derchal of Ambrakia. Battles are fought over the spring and summer at Chaones Phoenice, Bouthroton, Cassiopia, and Acheron. The Scordisi defenders roundly defeat the numerically superior forces of King Breagho at Acheron and Cassiopia. But as Prince Tychos was about to finally eject the Helveti-Boianlandan army out of Epeirus, he received orders from King Toccodos to depart the province and march on Macedonia to assist against the Gutanz army of King Harewulfz II. Tychos moc Derchal reluctantly abandons Epeiros.
King Liofa of Sunthwalha and Aquitae allows ships to bypass the Numidian middlemen in trading directly with the League of Han'adama. This infuriates King Juba II, given the lucrative trade in slaves, salt and gold. Juba orders his nephew, the Prince Hanno, to lead an attack against the city of Onuba.
The Year 226 HSF/64 BCE.
King Juba II dies at the age of sixty. He is succeeded by his thirty-two year old son, Prince Micipsa. The city of Onuba falls to the army of Prince Hanno. In a move to secure the route to the Punic League of Han'adama, Liofa of Sunthwalha offers a huge bribe to Hanno, claiming that he will send troops to support Hanno if he were to secede the recently captured Onuba, and become an autonomous ruler of the city. Realizing the loosely controlled nature of Numidian politics, it came as no surprise when King Liofa received an embassy from the new governor of Onuba, delivering tribute and a messege from Prince Hanno of his acceptance of his vassalage to the Kingdom of Sunthwalha.
The Kingdom of Judea collapses into the chaos of civil war, between the Pharisees in support of the exiled King Hyrcanus II and the Sadducees in support of the reigning King Aristoboulos II. The Megale Syrians and the Aegogenid government of Egypt support respectively the Sadducee and Pharisee factions in the civil war.
King Breagho of Helvetis and Bonnlandan withdraws his forces from Epeiros, after having bled that country dry. Hundreds of thousands of Epirote slaves have been sent to the major markets of the former Sweboz Federation.
The city of Thapsos is sacked by the Sicilian forces under the command of Doropses of Panai. And Carthage falls to the troops commanded by the Polmarch Achaias of Croton. The loss of territory in wealthy lands of Zeugitania and Byacezena Hellenic Sicilians is a major blow to the Numidians.
King Krateros I of Cyrenaia sends a force of 20,000 to aid the armies of Megale Syria and the Kydonian League in Hellas. Aetolia falls during the autumn to the military might of Prince Cassander.
The Scordisi city of Byzantion falls to the forces of King Toncommios of Trocmia in the spring. The forces of Harewulfz II of Getiaheimat ravage the countryside of Macedonia. The capital of Brennopolis (Pella) is beseiged, but is relieved by the army of Prince Tychos moc Derchal.
The Year 227 HSF/ 63 BCE.
Death of the Druhtinaz Osbehrt of Samanoheimat, Marcomannoheim and Belgaelandam at the age of forty-nine. His nineteen year old son Prince Osbehrt succeeds him to his realms. The Grand Thuidiringha of Halisweburgaz (Besancon), now nothing more than a ceremonial gathering of nobles and druids, dutifully "elect" the young prince as the Verrix of the Sweboz Federation. Although, none of the other monarchs bother to send tribute or arrive to swear fealty to Osbehrt II. The new Druhtinaz has every intention of uniting the Sweboz realms by force.
The Aegogenid Egyptians launch a new offensive into southern Judea. Among the troops are Pharisee partisans and volunteer Alexandrian Jews. Jerusalem is captured in late springtime. And Hyranus is re-instated as High Priest.
Disputes arise between the Hellenistic allies in Hellas. The Megale Syrians begin to battle the Cretans of the Kydonian League of the cities of Achaia and Aetolia.
King Breagho of Helvetis and Bonnlandan yet again invades the Epirote Gobremorg of the the Scordisi Kingdom. Ambrakia, Epidamnos, Phoenice, and Molossia fall to the armies of King Breagho in the summer.
King Toccodos and Tychos moc Derchal manage to secure the country of Macedonia against the Guntanz before turning to face the forces of King Toncommios of Trocmia.
The Year 228 HSF/ 62 BCE.
The Megale Syrians retain the northern regions of Samaria and Galilee, and install the the recently deposed Aristoboulos II as Ethnarch of Samaria. Aristoboulos holds court in the city of Shomrom.
The Emperor Antigonos I decidess to elevate the status of of Gedrousia and Arachosia to the status of client-kingdoms. This is to free up the available manpower for his wars in the west, while the newly created Basileis of Zeno and Hyppolytas can defend their independently defend their realms, and thus save their new overlord the expense of combatting the Bactrians.
The Druhtinaz Osbehrt II musters a huge army from the Gauen (counties/pagus) of Belgaelandam, Samanoheimat, and Markomannoheim, as he wishes to retake the lands of Arvernotorg, which his father had previously lost to King Chilperic of Armoricae more than a decade earlier. He achieves a victory at the Battle of Nem Arduinna (Ardennes Forest). The 34,000 strong force next besieges the cities of Lugdunon and Viennos. King Chilperic, who was residing in Redon (Rennes) at the beginning of the invasion, rode hastily to Arvernotorg, raising an army of 40,000 on the way, and smashed the mainly Samononaz army of King Osbehrt II at the Battle of Mount Vintur (Mont Ventoux, Provence). Osbehrt II was forced to withdraw back to Lugdunon. The city would fall back into the keeping of Chilperic by the end of summer. And Viennos would also fall to the Armoricans by the first month of autumn. The badly mauled forces of Osbehrt II would abandon their holdings in Arvernotorg before the winter snows came.
In a palace coup, the thirty-nine year old King Demetrios III is killed by his brother, the Prince Euthydemos, along with a cabal of Strategoi and ministers whom were disillusioned with their Basileus' government. King Euthydemos IV ascends the throne of Bactria.
The fighting between the collapsed alliance of Megale Syria and the Kydonian League continues on the soil of ancient Hellas. The League of Sicily sends military aid to the Cretans.
The Trocmian King Toncommios arranges a secret pact with the Basileus Aegogeos II of Egypt. This was after a brief respite between the Scordisi, The Trocmians and the Gutanz, although Toncommios still has his focus west of the Hellespont, despite his official friendship with Megale Syria.
The Year 229 HSF/ 61 BCE.
King Chilperic of Armoricae-est-Arvernotorg musters his armies for the revenge invasion of Belgaelandam, the most productive and properous of Druhtinaz Osbehrt II's three kingdoms. Ganda (Ghent) and Durocortorum (Reims), Menapadunon (Bruges), and Ubiadunon (Cologne). Raids on the supply lines of the Belgae forces slow their response. Osbehrt II has to rouse the militias of Samanoheimat and Markomannoheim.
Chieftains of the subordinate Numidian and Mauri tribes whom still retain their nomadic traditions and way of life in the Shara and Atlas Mountains are recorded to have migrated south of the Sahara. They went as far as to meet the native tribes people trading with the cities of the Han'adama League.
The Numidian King Micipsa II leads his forces in recapturing Carthage, Thapsos and Adrumeto, before completely expelling the Sicilian forces from Zeugitania and Byzacena in a lightning campaign.
King Liofa of Sunthwalha, angry with the Numidian piracy against his merchant ships travveling to Han'adama, musters a force of up to 47,000 among the identifiably Sweboz subjects and the Lusitani and Celtici conscripts in his kingdom to invade Numidian territory in Maura (Morocco). By autumn, Liofa's army captures the city of Tingi (Tangiers). The city will become known as "Tangburgaz".
Due to the chaos aong the Hellenic forces in Aetolia and Laconia, King Breagho of Helvetis-Bonnlandan musters his Harjaz (expeditionary forces) to invade the Sicilian-protectorate cities in Apulia, Kalabria and Lucania. Taras, Rhegion, Croton, Siris, Brundision, Hipponion and Callipolis are captured through the summer. An abortive relief army commanded by the Strategoi Phanagoras of Mytilene and Onamaros of Syracuse is destroyed at the Battle of Penna, a Lucanian village.
King Toncommios of Trocmia renews the invasion of Scordesia with a force of 43,000 after King Harewulfz II of Getiaheimat does likewise.
Prince Cassander of Megale Syria finally defeats his former allies in Hellas, and re-asserts his dominion over the country. Another army of 18,000 is sent by his father Antigonos I, and is ferried to the island of Crete. Under the command of the Strategos Theolekes of Babylonike, the army makes landfall on the southern coast of Crete during the summer. Theolekes captures and sacks the cities of Kydonia, Goteyn, Lyttas and the ancient city of Knossos. The memebers of the Kydonian Ekklesia, as well as the Archon and serving officials, were all put to the sword. The major cities of the island would be garrisoned by troops of Hellene, Persian and Syrian stock. The Kydonian League was no more.
The Year 230 HSF/60 BCE.
The armies of the Han Empire begin invading the Xiongnu lands, even going as far as the recently subjugated Tarim Basin.
Another force of 50,000 is sent into southern Thrace by King Toncommios I of Trocmia, making landfall near Byzantion. The city falls to the Trocmians within a month. Toncommios would march his troops into Ordysia to next capture the fortified city of Tylis.
Apulia is now fully under the control of the Kingdom of Bonnlandan, ruled over by the Verrix Breagho. It would not be long before the countries of Lucania and Kalabria feel the full brunt ofthe armies of Helvetis-Bonnlandan.
The Sicilians problems from the recent losses of territory in Italia and Libya are further compounded by the conquest of the islands of Qorsim (Corsica) and Sardin (Sardina) by the forces of King Micipsa II. The 40,000 strong army of Numidian Libyan tribesmen and Punic mariners under the leadership of the warlord Prince Galussa conquers both islands inside five months. Galussa would continue to govern the islands of Sardin and Qorsim with virtual autonomy.
King Liofa of Sunthwalha sends his son and heir, the twenty year old Prince Ermanar, to lead the force to conquer the Balearic Islands, and render it a naval supply base.
The Bactrian King Euthydemos IV attempts to reconquer the errant former satrapies of Gedrousia and Arachosia. But the 37,000 strong army, led by his brother-in-law, the Strategos Arsakes of Marakanda, are repulsed in a number of skirmishes in the mountains of Arachosia by the forces of Basileus Hyppolytas I.
King Harewulfz II of Getiaheimat secures a mutual border between his gains in Pannonia and Illyria at the expense of the Scordisi, and the conquests in Epeiros by King Breagho of Helvetis-Bonnlandan. They agree on the Tara River as a mutual boundery.
The armies of Armoricae-Arvernotorg completely subdues the Kingdom of Belgaelandam, despite fierce opposition over the spring and summer months from Druhtinaz Osbehrt II. A massive Belgae-Samanonz army of 71,000 is crushingly defeated by the 46,000 troops of King Chilperic in the Moselle Valley.
The Gutanz King Harewulfz II makes a pact with the corrupt Prince Tincommios of Singidunon, the largest city within the Scordisi realm of Scorcouw. Tincommios aspires to become the Verrix of the Scordisi, so Harewulfz would use him as his candidate for the throne, much to the detriment of the current ruler Toccodos.
Hundreds of Indohellenes settle in the southern ports of China, having come by way of the merchant vessels from the kingdoms of Gandhara and Meghada.
The great architect Torvo moc Diuhdan, the son of a Cavari merchant from Avennio (Avignon) and his Massaliote wife, and who had spent his youth studying in the cities of Alexandreia, Syracuse and Rhodos, has supervised the construction of a massive lighthouse tower, known as the "Tor Tarana", which is located in the Artabrian coast in the land of Calleacia (Corunna, Galicia). Torvo moc Diuhdan would be hired to oversee similar projects in Italia and Cimbrolandam.
King Svein of Cimbrolandam dies of old age He is succeeded by his grandson, the twenty-one year old Prince Ralla. The new King of Cimbrolandam, aside from defendng his realm from the Sweboz, would command considerable influence in foreign policy with the British kingdoms and the tribal alliances of Scandza.
King Zoilos III of Gandhara, growing frustrated with the unceasing naval defeats and attacks on his merchant fleet by the Megale Syrian navy, sets his engineers to the task of designing new warships to reverse the recent spate of attacks.
The Year 222 HSF/ 68 BCE.
A merchant vessel from Tartessos, owned and captained by the Iberian trader Vorviros of Gadir, following rumours, sails far out into the Atlantic, and sights a large island after more than six weeks at sea. The island (OTL Terceira, Azores). Vorviros, and his Phoenician associate Ielech of Qoduba (Cordoba), and their crew spend a week investigating the island before returning to Gadir to spread word of their discovery. The island, named "Vorvirolanda" (Land of Vorviros), becomes a port out in the Atlantic.
King Liofa of Aquitae and Sunthwalha creates a chain of fortresses in the north and west of Iberia to control the rebellious native Callaeci and Lusitanti clans. Liofa fears that his peers among the Sweboz monarchs would manipulate the bitterness of his subjects against him.
King Breagho of Helvetis and Italia sends emissaries and gifts to the Megale Syrian Emperor Antigonos I. To maintain the independence of his realms, Breagho wishes to ally himself with the Syrians, and to marry into the imperial family. King Breagho establishes his royal court at the city of Ravenna.
The forces of King Harewulfz II of Gutenheimat unsuccessfully besieges the city of Tylis. A relief force under the command of Prince Tarculo of Apollonia, a second cousin of King Toccodos, inflicted a stinging defeat on the Gutanz army.
Death of King Apollodotos of Meghada at the age of fifty-four. He is succeeded by his son, the twenty-one year old Prince Menander, now King Menander II.
King Lutarios launches a purging of the native nobility of Hayasdan and Kartli (Georgia) after rumours of uprising began to circulate about the kingdom. Thousands of Armenian nobles and their households begin to quietly emigrate to Megale Syria for refuge from their cruel overlord. Those Armenians that give their oaths to the Emperor Antigonos I serve in his forces in Assyria and Phoenicia, while others move to Persis, Khorasane and Media.
The Year 223 HSF/ 67 BCE.
The Judean Prince Aristoboulos, the younger brother of King Hycanus II, seeks the support of the Megale Syrians in gaining the crown of Judea, on the condition that he becomes a vassal of the Syrain Empire.
The Gutanz forces of King Harewulfz II settle behind the borders of Thrace and Scorcouw. Prince Tincommios of Singidunon becomes the client ruler of Scorcouw, the original homeland of the Scordisi. Harewulfz needs Tincommios to rouse support from the local population in order to reduce resistance against the presence of his forces.
King Breagho of Helvetis and Italia marries Princess Thais, the seventeen year old daughter of the Megas Basileus Antigonos I of Megale Syria. Antigonos, having noted the fractious and declining state of the great barbarian Keltoi empire of the Sweboz in Europe, sees Breagho as a potential ally as well as his instrument for his designs in Old Hellas. That other declining Keltoi state, the Scordisi Empire looks ripe for the taking. But his Galatai Trocmian allies in Anatolia would surely object to Antigonos' ambitions. And the Gutanz that now rule over the old Getai lands are yet to distant for his forces to strike against. Antigonos I hopes that perhaps his new son-in-law Breagho could be convinced to invade the Illyrian territories in Scordesia. Then, Antigonos could send troops to establish a foothold in Achaia, Laconia and Pelopennesia.
King Ralla of Cimbrolandam marries the eighteen year old daughter of King Ludd of the Trinovantis, the Princess Danna. The growing urban populace in the thriving towns in Cimbrolandam gives strengh to the kingdom, with some merchants also setting up shop in the British kingdoms.
King Menander II of Meghada establishes a number of Gymnasions and Stoas throughout his kingdom to accomodate the children of the Hellenic and native Hindu nobility under his rule. Many children of the higher princely Hindu families are given as hostages to the court of the Basileus every year to ensure loyalty and good conduct. The various schools are administered by Buddhist monks and Stoics whom personally are employed by the Crown. The vassal princes to the south give their daughters as wives and concubines to the Meghadan superiors, while some of the more loyal among them would marry the daughters and nieces of King Menadner II.
The Xiongnu forces converge on the satrapy of Xiyu once more, and overrun the territory. If that was not enough for the government of King Demetrios III of Bactria to handle, the satraps of Gedrousia and Arachosia, Hippolytas and Zeno were enemies of the Chiliarch Basilikon, Phanakes of Eschate, were denounced as traitors when Phanakes informed his king that they had secretly corresponded with the Syrian Emperor Antigonos I their desire to defect their respective satrapies to Syrian rule. It was true that each satrap had commanded enormous loyalty among their staffs, regional forces and citizens, and the fact that any attempt to remove them would be strongly resisted. However, even though Phanake's assertion of treason was a falsehood, neither Hippolytas and Zeno would risk exposing themselves by reporting to Bactra. Facing no choice, both governors would have send messengers to Seleukeia to genuinely switch their alliegences.
The Year 224 HSF/ 66 BCE.
The Megale Syrians and the partisans of Prince Aristoboulos capture the city of Jerusalem. Aristoboulos becomes King and High Priest of Judea. Hycanus and his followers flee Judea for Egypt, where they become the permanent guests at the court of King Aegogeos II.
King Apollonios Tercallos of Trocmia, whom has transformed his tribal kingdom into that of a regional power in Anatolia, dies at age sixty. He is succeeded by his thirty-year old son and co-ruler, King Toncommios I.
King Harewulfz II assembles another army of 25,000 for his next assault against Scordesia.
The Megale Syrian Emperor Antigonos I marshals a force of 53,000, and ferrie them to Cyprus in the first month of the year. Once the rest of the fleet is assembled, the twenty-nine year old Prince Cassander, a renowned general and heir to the throne, takes command and sails for Hellas, landing in Achaia after two weeks at sea. Athens was unprepared for the invasion and fell within days. Prince Cassander refrained from sacking the city. Emissaries were sent to the Boule of the League of Kydonia in Crete, where they persuaded the Archon Nicanor to lend military aid to the Megale Syrian force. Nineteen thousand Cretan soldiers landed in Sikyon.
The Emperor Antigonos I would also raise an army of 24,000 from Persis, Media and Babylonia to assist the confederate former Bactrian satraps of Gedrousia and Arachosia. Both Zeno and Hippolytas send their sons to Seleukeia Basilike.
Raids from the Numidian pirates in Qorsim (Corsica), Sardin (Sardinia) and Sicilia provoke the Sydrion of Syracuse to assemble another force to punish the Numidians, who were growing increasingly bolder in their expeditions.
King Ralla of Cimbrolandam, after punishing another uprising among the clans of the Scandza Peninsula, orders the defeated chiftains to give him their children to his capital of Alebu(OTL Aalborg) as hostages, and posts up to 30,000 part-time troops to the peninsula. Their families are encouraged to travel with them. Resistance to this measure would be severely punished with the destruction of whole villages and mass enslavement. The native Scandza clans would have to quietly accept their subjugation and the colonization of their ancestral homelands.
The Year 225 HSF/ 65 BCE.
The satrapeia of Xiyu becomes irretrievable to the forces of Bactria after the Battle of Tavasdes, a vast plain in the northern Tarim Basin. The survivors of the military taskforce have been recalled to Bactria by King Demetrios III, as he prepares for the invasion of the rogue satrapies of Gedrousia and Arachosia. The Hellenic colonists in Xiyu have to find what contentment they can get under the rule of the Xiongnu.
Carthage and Thapsos are besieged by a 28,000 strong Sicilian army. Eleven thousand, under the command of the Strategos Doropses of Panai, attempt to capture Thapsos, while the other 16,000 threaten the city of Carthage, under the command of the Polemarchos Achaias of Croton.
After the fall of Sparta to the allied Syrian-Cretan forces led by Prince Cassander, the other cities of Laconia voluntarily submit to the invaders.
King Breagho of Helvetis and Italia, the northern provinces of which are alternately known as "Boialanda" or "Bonnlandam", personally leads a force of up to fifty-thousand troops to the ancient land of Epeiros, which has experienced Scordisi rule for two hundred years. The sacking of cities, such as Ambrakia, Phoenice, Passaron, Chaonia, Molossia, Olympa, Dexaroi, Bothrota and other smaller villages occur, with the enslavement of tens of thousands of native Epirotes, whom were basically serfs of the Scordisi. The Helveti-Boialandan force of Breagho is met by a 14,000 strong Scordisi army under the leadership of the Prince Tychos moc Derchal of Ambrakia. Battles are fought over the spring and summer at Chaones Phoenice, Bouthroton, Cassiopia, and Acheron. The Scordisi defenders roundly defeat the numerically superior forces of King Breagho at Acheron and Cassiopia. But as Prince Tychos was about to finally eject the Helveti-Boianlandan army out of Epeirus, he received orders from King Toccodos to depart the province and march on Macedonia to assist against the Gutanz army of King Harewulfz II. Tychos moc Derchal reluctantly abandons Epeiros.
King Liofa of Sunthwalha and Aquitae allows ships to bypass the Numidian middlemen in trading directly with the League of Han'adama. This infuriates King Juba II, given the lucrative trade in slaves, salt and gold. Juba orders his nephew, the Prince Hanno, to lead an attack against the city of Onuba.
The Year 226 HSF/64 BCE.
King Juba II dies at the age of sixty. He is succeeded by his thirty-two year old son, Prince Micipsa. The city of Onuba falls to the army of Prince Hanno. In a move to secure the route to the Punic League of Han'adama, Liofa of Sunthwalha offers a huge bribe to Hanno, claiming that he will send troops to support Hanno if he were to secede the recently captured Onuba, and become an autonomous ruler of the city. Realizing the loosely controlled nature of Numidian politics, it came as no surprise when King Liofa received an embassy from the new governor of Onuba, delivering tribute and a messege from Prince Hanno of his acceptance of his vassalage to the Kingdom of Sunthwalha.
The Kingdom of Judea collapses into the chaos of civil war, between the Pharisees in support of the exiled King Hyrcanus II and the Sadducees in support of the reigning King Aristoboulos II. The Megale Syrians and the Aegogenid government of Egypt support respectively the Sadducee and Pharisee factions in the civil war.
King Breagho of Helvetis and Bonnlandan withdraws his forces from Epeiros, after having bled that country dry. Hundreds of thousands of Epirote slaves have been sent to the major markets of the former Sweboz Federation.
The city of Thapsos is sacked by the Sicilian forces under the command of Doropses of Panai. And Carthage falls to the troops commanded by the Polmarch Achaias of Croton. The loss of territory in wealthy lands of Zeugitania and Byacezena Hellenic Sicilians is a major blow to the Numidians.
King Krateros I of Cyrenaia sends a force of 20,000 to aid the armies of Megale Syria and the Kydonian League in Hellas. Aetolia falls during the autumn to the military might of Prince Cassander.
The Scordisi city of Byzantion falls to the forces of King Toncommios of Trocmia in the spring. The forces of Harewulfz II of Getiaheimat ravage the countryside of Macedonia. The capital of Brennopolis (Pella) is beseiged, but is relieved by the army of Prince Tychos moc Derchal.
The Year 227 HSF/ 63 BCE.
Death of the Druhtinaz Osbehrt of Samanoheimat, Marcomannoheim and Belgaelandam at the age of forty-nine. His nineteen year old son Prince Osbehrt succeeds him to his realms. The Grand Thuidiringha of Halisweburgaz (Besancon), now nothing more than a ceremonial gathering of nobles and druids, dutifully "elect" the young prince as the Verrix of the Sweboz Federation. Although, none of the other monarchs bother to send tribute or arrive to swear fealty to Osbehrt II. The new Druhtinaz has every intention of uniting the Sweboz realms by force.
The Aegogenid Egyptians launch a new offensive into southern Judea. Among the troops are Pharisee partisans and volunteer Alexandrian Jews. Jerusalem is captured in late springtime. And Hyranus is re-instated as High Priest.
Disputes arise between the Hellenistic allies in Hellas. The Megale Syrians begin to battle the Cretans of the Kydonian League of the cities of Achaia and Aetolia.
King Breagho of Helvetis and Bonnlandan yet again invades the Epirote Gobremorg of the the Scordisi Kingdom. Ambrakia, Epidamnos, Phoenice, and Molossia fall to the armies of King Breagho in the summer.
King Toccodos and Tychos moc Derchal manage to secure the country of Macedonia against the Guntanz before turning to face the forces of King Toncommios of Trocmia.
The Year 228 HSF/ 62 BCE.
The Megale Syrians retain the northern regions of Samaria and Galilee, and install the the recently deposed Aristoboulos II as Ethnarch of Samaria. Aristoboulos holds court in the city of Shomrom.
The Emperor Antigonos I decidess to elevate the status of of Gedrousia and Arachosia to the status of client-kingdoms. This is to free up the available manpower for his wars in the west, while the newly created Basileis of Zeno and Hyppolytas can defend their independently defend their realms, and thus save their new overlord the expense of combatting the Bactrians.
The Druhtinaz Osbehrt II musters a huge army from the Gauen (counties/pagus) of Belgaelandam, Samanoheimat, and Markomannoheim, as he wishes to retake the lands of Arvernotorg, which his father had previously lost to King Chilperic of Armoricae more than a decade earlier. He achieves a victory at the Battle of Nem Arduinna (Ardennes Forest). The 34,000 strong force next besieges the cities of Lugdunon and Viennos. King Chilperic, who was residing in Redon (Rennes) at the beginning of the invasion, rode hastily to Arvernotorg, raising an army of 40,000 on the way, and smashed the mainly Samononaz army of King Osbehrt II at the Battle of Mount Vintur (Mont Ventoux, Provence). Osbehrt II was forced to withdraw back to Lugdunon. The city would fall back into the keeping of Chilperic by the end of summer. And Viennos would also fall to the Armoricans by the first month of autumn. The badly mauled forces of Osbehrt II would abandon their holdings in Arvernotorg before the winter snows came.
In a palace coup, the thirty-nine year old King Demetrios III is killed by his brother, the Prince Euthydemos, along with a cabal of Strategoi and ministers whom were disillusioned with their Basileus' government. King Euthydemos IV ascends the throne of Bactria.
The fighting between the collapsed alliance of Megale Syria and the Kydonian League continues on the soil of ancient Hellas. The League of Sicily sends military aid to the Cretans.
The Trocmian King Toncommios arranges a secret pact with the Basileus Aegogeos II of Egypt. This was after a brief respite between the Scordisi, The Trocmians and the Gutanz, although Toncommios still has his focus west of the Hellespont, despite his official friendship with Megale Syria.
The Year 229 HSF/ 61 BCE.
King Chilperic of Armoricae-est-Arvernotorg musters his armies for the revenge invasion of Belgaelandam, the most productive and properous of Druhtinaz Osbehrt II's three kingdoms. Ganda (Ghent) and Durocortorum (Reims), Menapadunon (Bruges), and Ubiadunon (Cologne). Raids on the supply lines of the Belgae forces slow their response. Osbehrt II has to rouse the militias of Samanoheimat and Markomannoheim.
Chieftains of the subordinate Numidian and Mauri tribes whom still retain their nomadic traditions and way of life in the Shara and Atlas Mountains are recorded to have migrated south of the Sahara. They went as far as to meet the native tribes people trading with the cities of the Han'adama League.
The Numidian King Micipsa II leads his forces in recapturing Carthage, Thapsos and Adrumeto, before completely expelling the Sicilian forces from Zeugitania and Byzacena in a lightning campaign.
King Liofa of Sunthwalha, angry with the Numidian piracy against his merchant ships travveling to Han'adama, musters a force of up to 47,000 among the identifiably Sweboz subjects and the Lusitani and Celtici conscripts in his kingdom to invade Numidian territory in Maura (Morocco). By autumn, Liofa's army captures the city of Tingi (Tangiers). The city will become known as "Tangburgaz".
Due to the chaos aong the Hellenic forces in Aetolia and Laconia, King Breagho of Helvetis-Bonnlandan musters his Harjaz (expeditionary forces) to invade the Sicilian-protectorate cities in Apulia, Kalabria and Lucania. Taras, Rhegion, Croton, Siris, Brundision, Hipponion and Callipolis are captured through the summer. An abortive relief army commanded by the Strategoi Phanagoras of Mytilene and Onamaros of Syracuse is destroyed at the Battle of Penna, a Lucanian village.
King Toncommios of Trocmia renews the invasion of Scordesia with a force of 43,000 after King Harewulfz II of Getiaheimat does likewise.
Prince Cassander of Megale Syria finally defeats his former allies in Hellas, and re-asserts his dominion over the country. Another army of 18,000 is sent by his father Antigonos I, and is ferried to the island of Crete. Under the command of the Strategos Theolekes of Babylonike, the army makes landfall on the southern coast of Crete during the summer. Theolekes captures and sacks the cities of Kydonia, Goteyn, Lyttas and the ancient city of Knossos. The memebers of the Kydonian Ekklesia, as well as the Archon and serving officials, were all put to the sword. The major cities of the island would be garrisoned by troops of Hellene, Persian and Syrian stock. The Kydonian League was no more.
The Year 230 HSF/60 BCE.
The armies of the Han Empire begin invading the Xiongnu lands, even going as far as the recently subjugated Tarim Basin.
Another force of 50,000 is sent into southern Thrace by King Toncommios I of Trocmia, making landfall near Byzantion. The city falls to the Trocmians within a month. Toncommios would march his troops into Ordysia to next capture the fortified city of Tylis.
Apulia is now fully under the control of the Kingdom of Bonnlandan, ruled over by the Verrix Breagho. It would not be long before the countries of Lucania and Kalabria feel the full brunt ofthe armies of Helvetis-Bonnlandan.
The Sicilians problems from the recent losses of territory in Italia and Libya are further compounded by the conquest of the islands of Qorsim (Corsica) and Sardin (Sardina) by the forces of King Micipsa II. The 40,000 strong army of Numidian Libyan tribesmen and Punic mariners under the leadership of the warlord Prince Galussa conquers both islands inside five months. Galussa would continue to govern the islands of Sardin and Qorsim with virtual autonomy.
King Liofa of Sunthwalha sends his son and heir, the twenty year old Prince Ermanar, to lead the force to conquer the Balearic Islands, and render it a naval supply base.
The Bactrian King Euthydemos IV attempts to reconquer the errant former satrapies of Gedrousia and Arachosia. But the 37,000 strong army, led by his brother-in-law, the Strategos Arsakes of Marakanda, are repulsed in a number of skirmishes in the mountains of Arachosia by the forces of Basileus Hyppolytas I.
King Harewulfz II of Getiaheimat secures a mutual border between his gains in Pannonia and Illyria at the expense of the Scordisi, and the conquests in Epeiros by King Breagho of Helvetis-Bonnlandan. They agree on the Tara River as a mutual boundery.
The armies of Armoricae-Arvernotorg completely subdues the Kingdom of Belgaelandam, despite fierce opposition over the spring and summer months from Druhtinaz Osbehrt II. A massive Belgae-Samanonz army of 71,000 is crushingly defeated by the 46,000 troops of King Chilperic in the Moselle Valley.
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The Year 231 HSF/59 BCE.
Lucania and Kalabria are now within the dominion of the Kingdom of Bonlandan. Rhegion is sacked by Bonnai troops personally led by King Breagho himself. Breagho has every wish to reduce the League of Sicilia to ruin.
The cities of Tylis, Orestias (Edirne), Pyrgos (Burgas), and Philoppoupolis (Plovdiv) all fall to the armies of the Trocmian King Toncommios I. Although Toncommios maintains order among his troops, and punishes looters and other malcontents, believing that creating rapport with the local populace would do more to retain his conquests.
King Krateros of Cyrenaia dies unexpectantly. Rival parties among the kingdom's Hellenic aristocracy vie for the kingship. The Basileus Aegogeos II despatches an army numbering 23,000, and appoints his cousin Aelymacos of Fayyoum as the Strategos of the army. Aegogeos has entered negotiations with the faction headed by the Archon of Cyrenaia, Hermais Megastheniou, and to officially support his regime.
The Verrix Liofa of Aquitae and Sunthwalha dies at the age of forty-five from food poisoning. He is succeeded by his ambitious and valorous son, the twenty-one year old Prince Ermanar, whom would become known in the historic record as "Ermanarix" (Ermanar the King) upon his coronation. While maintaining the alliance with his late father's cousin, the Armorican Verrix Chilperic, Ermanaric intends to expand his empire into the Mediterranean.
Chilperic plans on invading the realms of Samanoheimat and Marcomannoheim, the original northern homelands of the Sweboz. He musters a force of 60,000 during the springtime, and penetrates the Heruska Gauen (Cherusci homeland) in the northern Rhineland. His army wins victories aagainst the hastily raised militia forces at the battles of Muscawald (Osnabruck), Arataburgaz (Hanover), and Wasogartha (Achim).With the Armorica-Arvernan military foothold of Heruskalandam firmly secure, King Chilperic goes on to smash the main Druhtiz force of Osbehrt II of Samanoheimat.
The Year 232 HSF/58 BCE.
After winter skirmishes on the fringes of Heruskalandam, the Armorica-Arvernan forces of King Chilperic triumph over the army of the Druhtinaz Osbehrt once again. The Samanoz army was decimated at the Battle of Diggerta, a village fifteen miles south of the city Hariowolafzburgaz (Berlin), the capital of Samanoheimat. However, King Chilperic was slain during a cavalry charge. Due to the death of their sovereign lord, the Armorican-Arvernan officers were reluctant to peruse their advantage. The twenty-one year old Prince Brochvalos, whom had led hisfather's cavalry Harjaz, assumed command of the army of the Armorican-Arvernans. Taking control of the situation, Brochvalos led the army to besiege the city of Hariowolafzburgaz after the ceremonial burial of his father. The city fell to Brochvalos within two weeks, before the spring came. Brochvalos refrained from sacking the city of Hariowolafz, and sacrificed in thanksgiving at the Nemeton of Wodanaz. With Osbehrt II's support among the Samanoz nobility lacking, he fled to his strongholds in Marcomannoheim. The newly crowned King Brochvalos hastily rode to the city of Haliswebaburgaz (Besancon), and through bribery and threats, persuaded the Thuidiringha into electing him the new Druhtinaz, even though Osbehrt II was still alive and at large.
Hermias Megastheniou, with the backing of the soldiers of his Egyptian ally, the Basileus Aegogeos II, destroys his rivals in Cyrenaia, and is happily installed as the ruler of the country.
King Breagho I of Bonnlandan and Helvetis raises an army of 46,000, and launches a seaborne invasion of Messana, one of the chief cities of the League of Sicilia, during the first month of spring. Attempt to relieve the siege by the 34,000 strong force of the Polmarch Arepippos of Panormos meets with failure. With the aid of siege artillery such as Ballisti and Onagers, the Bonnai forces bombard the walls of Messana before stormng into the city. Breagho lays waste and enslaves the local Hellenes.
The Numidians take further advantage of the Sicilian's problems when they invade the southern lands of Syrthim (Libya). Numerous Libyan clans move into the country, raiding the Hellenic Sicilian towns and farms for livestock and slaves.
Ermanarix of Aquitae and Sunthwalha commisions the construction of the Royal Ermanalissodun (Ermanar's Court and Citadel), a 47-acre wide, 7-storey palace, located north of Nemausos (Nimes). The chief architects were the Massaliote Plotinos and the native Arecomisci (Volcae tribe) Coroach moc Dennoros.
The Bactrian King Euthydemos IV is assassinated by the Chiliarch Basilikon Acelydon of Eschate. Acelydon's attempt to seize the throne fails when his co-conspirators betray him to Prince Timon of Marakanda, the cousin of the late king. Some of the Strategoi whom supported Acelydon's coup muster their troops in rebellion when Prince Timon executes Acelydon.
King Toccodos of Scordesia successfully negotiates a ceasefire with the Gutanz King Harewulfz II, whom agrees to settle his new frontier between the Mikra Prespa Lake and the Erigon River.
The Year 233 HSF/57 BCE.
King Breagho of Helvetis-Bonnlandan, at the head of his huge army, sacks the cities of Leontinoi, Katane, Naxos, and Megale Hyblaia. The citizen-militias of the Sicilian Leugue fail to stop the Bonnai onslaught of their homeland and against their people. The cities of Gela, Kamarina, Segesta, Akragas and Motya send emissaries to Breagho's encampments, to submit on the behalf of their cities, wishing to spare them from predations. Breagho detains the embassies to ensure their honesty.
The North African land of Syrthim is overrun by Numidian and Libyans pastoralist clans. Citizens of the Hellenic Sicilian colonies have the choice of submitting to the authority of the Numidian warlords, or seeking military aide from the eastern Kingdom of Cyrenaia. Syrthim degenrates into a wilderness as the two ethnic groups battle one another.
King Toccodos negotiates a peace treaty with King Toncommios I of Trocmia, allowing him to keep the lands of Odrysia. Toncommios agrees for the time being.
The Antidruhtinaz Brochvalos summons as many as 50,000 from his professional Druhtiz and the regional militia bands, and launches his invasion of the Kingdom of Marcomannoheim, so as to absorb its lands and capture Osbehrt II, who is still widely considered the legal and rightful Druhtinaz of the Sweboz Federation. He conquers the region within less than five months. Come the first month of autumn, Brochvalos had entrapped the fugitive Osbehrt II inside the city walls of Markomannogart, the capital of the ancient tribal territory, and the site of what is believed to be the home village of the Sweboz founder Hariowolafz. The city is taken by storm. Brochvalos was merciful to the inhabitants of the city, but his rival, taken captive during the fighting, was quietly put to death. Now undisputed as the formal overlord of the Sweboz, Brochvalos rode back to Haliswebaburgaz to silence his detractors by having them executed. Brochvalos would become the founder of the politically centralized Marurigion Swebaheimat (Maru Rigion/Great Kingdom).
King Luithard of the Bastarnae dies of great age. His grandson, the twenty-six year old Prince Fritigern, ascends to the throne.
Death of King Ludd of the Casse-Trinovantis. The ribal confederation collapses as individual chieftain egos flare up.
Prince Timon of Marakanda brutally eliminates the rebellious factions of the Bactrian nobility in a series of quick battles before formally assuming the throne of Bactria. The largest element among Timon's support base are the Hellenized ethnic Tocharians, many of whom serve in the Katapract and Hippotoxotoi squadrons. Timon, who himself has maternal Tocharian ancestry, makes his first official act to make peace with both the Xiongnu in the east, and the Megale Syrians in the west.
Prince Cassander has full control of Laconia, Attica, Aetolia now. Euboia and Pelopennesia are due to be subordinated. Cassander appoints the new Archons of the reconquered cities of Hellas.
The Year 234 HSF/56 BCE.
Euboia and Pelopennesia have been completely subdued and pacified by the armies of Megale Syria, under the command of Prince Cassander. Hellas is now under the military rule of Megale Syria. Within a month of the conquest, however, the thirty-nine year old Cassander receives word from Antioch that Antigonos I, his father, has died at the age of sixty-three. The political and economic infrastructure of Hellas has been torn apart by frequent warfare and famine, causing the death of thousands, while others had over the ten year Syrian-Scordisi War to flee to Egypt, Trocmian Anatolia, or Sicilia. The new Megale Syrian Emperor Cassander II encourages the recolonization of Hellas, settling repatriated Hellenes as well as Syrians, Medes and Persians in the country. The occupation army consists of 44,000 troops, garrisoned in Akras built across the peninsula.
The Armoric-Arvernan Druhtinaz Brochvalos began his military reforms of the Sweboz forces. The traditional fyrd-levy system of the constituent kingdoms was abolished. So no ambitious military governors, nor surviving members of the previous dynasties could use them in rebellion against the Druhtinaz. The royal Druhtiz army was expanded to include more Harjaz-divisions, and each enlisted soldier was required to swear a sacred oath before an engraved image of Brochvalos and in the names of Wodanaz-Lugus, Tiw-Camulos and Taranis that his first loyalty was to the Druhtinaz himself, lest he suffer unholy torments in the hereafter. Armouries were set up in the Druhtiz citadels of Swebaheimat, featuring workshops where the mass-production of high quality chainmail vests and rimmed bronze helmets, inscribed with the Druhtinaz' family crest of a prancing horse ahead of the sun was featured on the front of the helmets. The soldiers would be paid a regular salary of up to 20 Siluskatt a year. Brochvalos I was creating a truly professional army.
King Ralla of Cimbrolandam takes advantage of the deteriorating political state of the former Casse confederation in southern Britain by sending an army under the command of his friend and trustee, the Eorlaz Cyrnig. Having been appointed the Harjanaz, Cyrnig lands his troops on the eastern shores of the Iceni Kingdom. The Cimbro army consists of 35,000 troops, 12,000 of which are Scandza clan-warriors sent by the client-chieftains. Lord Cyrnig arrives under a truce at the court of the Iceni King Tugodunos, claiming that King Ralla has sent him to support his bid for the High Kingship of the Belgic kingdoms of southern Britain. King Ermanarix of Aquitae and Sunthwalha deals with the further rebellions of the resentful native Lusitani nobles in his kingdom. Thousands of Lusitani landowners arew killed and their families and dependents are enslaved. Their properties and holdings are confiscated and parcelled among the troops ordered to undertake the great harrying of Lusitanna.
King Fritigern of Bastarnoheimat recruits a huge army of 6000 horse-archers, 5000 Thuidi-Sarmatian heavy lancers, and as many as 51,000 spear and bow-armed levied infantry to under take the conquest of the Hellenistic Tauri Peninsula.
Death of King Toccodos of Scordesia after a long illness. He had no living children. A group of Scordisi nobles, fearful that the wars with Syria, the Gutanz and the Helveti-Bonnai would start all over again, offer the throne to the Trocmian King Toncommios I. At the head of a 9,000 strong army, Toncommios peacefully enters Scordisi country, marching to Brennopolis in triumph. He is crowned the ruler of the war-shrunken kingdom. This event would put him at serious odds with the Gutanz King Harewulfz II.
Rabbel III, the Malik (king) of the Arabian state of Sabaea, is beset by treachery, instigated by his brother, the Prince Ayyub, who is supported in his plotting by most of the nobles in Ma'rib and the Priesthood of Athtar, whom deems that the prince is less than pious and is a wastrel. The coup is successful for a time, but Rabbel and a few servants go to the city of Sabata, and stay in hiding as their are a number of armed men in the city whom know of the bounty placed upun the deposed Malik. Rabbel and his followers, who have taken some of the royal treasury with them. He spends time with the politically neutral Jewish community in Sabata, many of them merchants or exiles from Judea. Rabbel promises them much loot in return for his safety and if they help him regain his throne. After months of gathering support from Bedouin bandits, Rabbel and his army of rogues secretly enter Ma'rib, overpower the palace guards, and massacre the leaders of the coup, including the traitor Ayyub. The treacherous elements of the Athtar Priesthood is also put to the sword. And an even larger purging of the nobility in Ma'rib ensues. Grateful of the help rendered to him by the Sabatan Jews and the Bedouins, he bequeaths the confiscated properties of the traitors to them. The Sabatan Jewish leaders would take even more advantage of the favour granted to them by King Rabbel III. And their community would begin to thrive from there.
The Year 235 HSF/55 BCE.
King Harewulfz II of the Gutanz signs a treaty with King Toncommios of Trocmia, and recognize a mutual border, that being the Aimos Mountains (Balkan mountains), with the Gutanze-held city of Naissos serving as the main gateway into Troco-Scordesian territory. King Toncommios would later decide to relocate the capital of Trocmia in Orestias (Edirne).
In his invasion of the Taurian lands, King Fritigern of Bastarnoheimat captures the cities of Borysthenes and Chersonesos. The League of Tanais, led by the Hegemon Komon of Phanagoria, musters some 127,000 Polistai and Metikoi to arms, including some professional Mistophoroi Hippeis, Hoplitai and Toxotoi, to arms, in his bid to combat the invasion.
King Breagho of Helvetis-Bonnlandan secures his hold over the country of Epeiros across the Adriatic Sea. Due to burdensome taxation levied by their conquerors, many thousands of Sicilian and Kalabrian Polistai make the decision to flee to either Megale Syria, Egypt, or the Sweboz protectorate of Massalia, or even the Kingdom of Sunthwalha in the west.
The Druhtinaz Brochvalos I creates an auxiliary extension of the Druhtiz, known as the "Cintusos", or youth levy. Every young man aged from sixteen to twenty is expected to serve to years of military duty. Exceptions are given to those in the Druidic or Bardic castes, as well as the infirm or mentally unabled. While the sons of merchants are expected to to serve in non-combatants roles as sutlers and messengers. Unlike the professional soldiers of the Druhtiz, the young conscripts are expected, in addition to combat drill, to police the smaller town, the roadways, and provide labour for civil engineering projects in the kingdom. Archery is reported in the historical record as taken on more popularity among the class of free-peasants of the Sweboz Marurigion. Yew bows appear increasingly in the ranks of the new Cintusos force.
King Aristoboulos II of Judea instigates a new purging of the aristocracy in Samaria and Galilee, whom he fears to harbour a number of pro-Pharisee sympathizers. The whispers of restoring his deposed older brother have gotten louder. Nearly 3000 nobles are thought to have been arrested and executed during the year. This prompts many highborn families to either genuinely switch sides and flee to Judea in the south where Hyrcanus II rules at Egyptian pleasure. While others merely flee to Babylonia and Persia, where their kind have lived undisturbed for hundreds of years.
The Year 236 HSF/ 54 BCE.
The major Temple-Sanctuaries of Wodan-Lugus, Taranis, Cernonnus, and Tiw-Camulos, having long become pivotal to the general function of Swebozez society, have become repositories of both public and private wealth. The trustworthiness and discretion of Ansutonion priests is beyond criticism. Cernonnon Ansutonion are responsible for the keeping of the keeping of the public treasury and tax records, while the priesthood of Taranis are the regulators of the charities for the poor, the orphans, and the invalids.
The Lord Galba moc Caratac, a senior Ansutonion cleric as well as a first cousin of King Breagho of Helvetis-Bonnlandan, leads an embassy to the royal court of the Megale Syrian Megas Basileus Cassander II in Seleucia Basilike (Seleucia Tigris) in Mesopotamia. Lord Galba writes an account of all he sees. He also record meetings with theMegale Syrian Emperor, and other diplomatic delegations from parts of the wider world. He writes with particular interest the Indohellene diplomats from Gandhara and Meghada. And of course the Han delegation. Galba befriends the Han ambassador, called Jing Yi. They communicate in the Koinon Hellenic language of their hosts, and learn alot of each other's origins. Galba moc Caratac is intrigued with the great kingdom of China. After returning to the Bonnai capital of Ravenna four months later, Galba informs his cousin of China, and enthuses of opening direct diplomatic dialogue with them. King Breagho, however, is not convinced, as the journey east may would take many thousands of miles through unknown territory. Letdown by the lack of endorsement, Lord Galba takes his case to the Druhtinaz Brochvalos I, whom held court in the city of Bibracte. After outlining his intent to Brochvalos, the Druhtinaz assembles a party of nobles, guards and Ansutonion clerics to accompany Lord Galba on his mission, which he believes would take a year and seven months to reach the court of the Han Emperor.
King Micipsa II of Numidia succumbs to a plot led by his nephew, the eighteen year old Prince Ozacles. After the forty year old King was drowned in his bath, his wife and two young children were quietly murdered too. Many related princes and Numidian noblity suspected Ozalcles of the regicide, and the new king had to contend with rebellion by his own subjects.
King Lutarios I of Hayasdan dies at the age of sixty-two. He is succeeded by his thirty-two year old son, also named Lutarios.
The Bastarnae forces of King Fritigern destroy all Tauri allied armies sent against them. Theodosia, Pantikapaion, Nymphaion, Kimmerikon, and Kerkinitis have fallen in the past year. Olbia, having held out against a token Bastarnae army led by the Harjanaz Estes oi Decabalo, surrenders in exchange for milder terms, as does the city of Tyras the following month. Now only those cities of the League of Tanais that are situated on the opposite shores of the Maotian Lake remain to challenge the might of King Fritigern.
King Harewulfz II dies at the age of sixty-seven. His successor is the eighteen year old Prince Dromichaetes. The boy was given a Getic Thracian name as part of the acculturation of Gutenic nobility in Getia. During his reign, the native cult of Zalmoxis regains some of its past importance, even though the new King is an avowed Ansumannoz (singular: Ansuz Man, or follower).
The Year 237 HSF/53 BCE.
The ambassador Galba moc Caratac embarks on his journey east, leading a party of fifty noble-born diplomats, Druhtambacti (Royal Retainers), and servants. Among them is the nineteen year old Princess Chiomara, the unwed younger sister of the Druhtinaz Brochvalos, and an accomplished diplomat in her own right. It was her initiative to join the mission, although the Druhtinaz had some misgivings about her choice. They set sail from Massalia before the spring, arriving at the port of Antioch in Syria five weeks later.
The Numidian King Ozalces I tries to establish friendly relations with the Verrix Ermanarix of Sunthwalha. He sends his half-sister, the fifteen year old Princess Dihya, as a bride to Ermanarix, who marries her during the spring.
King Breagho sends a new force of 50,000 to the Gobremorg of Epeiros, since the exiled Scordisi noble Prince Tychos moc Derchal returns to the country, and stirs up sedition. Breagho must also contend with rebellion in Sicilia, which is instigated by Endymion of Naulochos.
King Fritigern musters a fleet in the ports of Dionysospolis, Tyras and Olbia to ferry his troops to attack the remaining free cities of the League of Tanais.
Death of Basileus Menander II of Meghada at the age of thirty-seven from malaria. The crown is inherited by Menander's younger brother, thirty-one year old Prince Heraclios. The new Basileus Heraclios I would open up to nine philosophical schools in the Kingdom of Meghada. A consummate diplomat, Heraclios betroths his seven year old daughter, the Princess Thais, to the youngest son of the Gandharan King Zoilos III, the seven year old Prince Phillipos.
Exiled Judean nobles and scholars with Pharisiac symphaphies and alliegences are known to have appeared in the Jewish communities in Sabaea, to curry favour with King Rabbel III.
The Year 238 HSF/ 52 BCE.
The League of Tanais is devastated by te Bastarnae invasion. By the summer, the leading city of Tanais is besieged by a force of 20,000 Bastarnae troops, commanded personally commanded by the aggressive King Fritigern.
Galba moc Caratac, the Princess Chiomara and their retinue had presented themselves at the Basileus' court in Seleucia Basilike before riding eastward through Persian satrapies. At the beginning of the year, they reach the royal court of Bactra, to present themselves before the Bactrian Basileus Timon I. As in Seleucia, they present gifts of exquisite jewellery on behalf of the Druhtinaz Brochvalos of Swebaheimat. King Timon becomes smitten with the Princess Chiomara, and she remains at the Bactrian royal court as the rest of the Sweboz delegation continue the journey. Chiomara is taken as Timon's wife. Opening a permanent channel with the Sweboz Marurigion.
The Hayasdani King Lutarios II recruits settled Scythians on the northern marches of his kingdom to combat yearly raids by the Sarmatian clans in the north. Horse-archers become a regular feature in the Keltoi-Hayasdani forces.
The Sicilian rebellion led by Endymion of Naulochos is utterly crushed by the Helveti-Bonnai forces, commanded by the Harjanaz Divicaicos Metellus. Endymion, now on the run, commits suicide to avoid betrayal by his countrymen. Syracuse is sacked, and garrisons are installed in Himera, Messana, Lilybeaum, Naxos, Gela, Megale Hyblaia, Motya and Leontinoi.
Artillery, such as Ballistai, Magonals, Onagers, and the Polybolos (Scorpion) become a regular feature in the armies of Swebaheimat, Aquitae-Sunthwalha, and Helvetis-Bonnlandan.
The Sabaean King Rabbel III hosts a number of exiled Judean nobles at his royal court in Ma'rib, most of which are Pharisees. Sabaea has for two hundred years, possibly longer, has possessed a growing number of Jews, numbering roughly a hundred thousand, most of which were born in Sabaea. Rabbel has grown personally interested in their faith, and has taken for wife Rebekah, the sixteen year old daughter of an exiled Pharisee noble courtier named Gideon ben Nahum. Rebekah is soon with child. She goes on to give birth to a healthy boy named Rabbel Ishak. The young Prince is the key to the future for Judaism in Sabaea.
The alliance of the Cimbri and the Iceni successfully gain the capitulation of the confederation led by the Catuvellauni.
The Year 239 HSF/51 BCE.
The Druhtinaz Brochvalos of Swebaheimat amasses a fleet carrying an army of 36,000 to invade the western British tribal lands of the Silures (Gwent), the Ordivices (Gwynedd), and the Gangani (Llyn Peninsula, Wales). This was a calculated move to secure the territory surrounding the holy island of Mona, the holiest place in all of Britain, the "Island of the Gods". The over-kings of the Silures, the Ordovices and the Gangani were seperately forced to surrender in a lightening campaign directed by the Harjanaz Albanos moc Aethelnoth. The kings were forced to send sons and daughters as hostages to the court of Druhtinaz Brochvalos I.
The Sweboz diplomatic delegation led by the Ansutoni Galba moc Caratac reaches the territory of the Xiongnu, and pay their respects to the supreme ruler, or "Shan-Yu" (Majesty Son of Heaven) named Zhizhi. The Majestic Son of Heaven was generous enough to provide an escort to the exotic Sweboz delegation as far as Han territory. Within three months, Galba and his party were admitted into the presence of the Han Emperor, where they prostrated themselves before the throne of Xuan of Han. Galba was recognized by Jing Yi, who was present at the Han court at that time.
Tanais and the remaining League cities of Tauri are sacked by the Bastarnae forces of King Fritigern, who now has complete control over the country.
The Basileus Timon I of Bactria establishes a permanent peace with Megale Syria by offering his younger sister, the seventeen year old Princess Tamikka, to the fifteen year old Prince Perdiccas. The wedding takes place in Seleukeia Basilike.
The Year 240 HSF/50 BCE.
Galba moc Caratac returns to Seleukeia, minus the Princess Chiomara, whom was now the consort of the Bactrian King Timon I, who was entranced by the girls beauty and intellect. Before too long, Swebozez merchants would make regular trips through Megale Syria and the Pontic Steppe.
Aristoboulos II, who was merely the Megale Syrian puppet-king of Samaria and Galilee, had died, apparently of over-drinking despite whispers of murder. His young son Antigonos ascended the throne of Samaria, with the sought approval of the Megale Syrian Emperor Cassander II. Antigonos' trusted regent, Antipater, a man of Idumean birth, would govern in his name.
King Fritigern of the Bastarnae relocates the his capital at Hellenic city of Chersonesos. He also forces the submission of a number of sedentary Sarmatian clans in the north.
The city of Gloudunon (Gloucester) is founded on the eastern bank Severn River. This becomes the centre of Sweboz authority in the west of Britain.
Prince Tychos moc Derchal dies during the Battle Arachthos River. His body is dismembered before the King Breagho of Helvetis-Bonnlandan. The Epirote rebellion is extinguished. And Tychos moc Derchal is remembered as a folk-hero in Epeiros.
Lucania and Kalabria are now within the dominion of the Kingdom of Bonlandan. Rhegion is sacked by Bonnai troops personally led by King Breagho himself. Breagho has every wish to reduce the League of Sicilia to ruin.
The cities of Tylis, Orestias (Edirne), Pyrgos (Burgas), and Philoppoupolis (Plovdiv) all fall to the armies of the Trocmian King Toncommios I. Although Toncommios maintains order among his troops, and punishes looters and other malcontents, believing that creating rapport with the local populace would do more to retain his conquests.
King Krateros of Cyrenaia dies unexpectantly. Rival parties among the kingdom's Hellenic aristocracy vie for the kingship. The Basileus Aegogeos II despatches an army numbering 23,000, and appoints his cousin Aelymacos of Fayyoum as the Strategos of the army. Aegogeos has entered negotiations with the faction headed by the Archon of Cyrenaia, Hermais Megastheniou, and to officially support his regime.
The Verrix Liofa of Aquitae and Sunthwalha dies at the age of forty-five from food poisoning. He is succeeded by his ambitious and valorous son, the twenty-one year old Prince Ermanar, whom would become known in the historic record as "Ermanarix" (Ermanar the King) upon his coronation. While maintaining the alliance with his late father's cousin, the Armorican Verrix Chilperic, Ermanaric intends to expand his empire into the Mediterranean.
Chilperic plans on invading the realms of Samanoheimat and Marcomannoheim, the original northern homelands of the Sweboz. He musters a force of 60,000 during the springtime, and penetrates the Heruska Gauen (Cherusci homeland) in the northern Rhineland. His army wins victories aagainst the hastily raised militia forces at the battles of Muscawald (Osnabruck), Arataburgaz (Hanover), and Wasogartha (Achim).With the Armorica-Arvernan military foothold of Heruskalandam firmly secure, King Chilperic goes on to smash the main Druhtiz force of Osbehrt II of Samanoheimat.
The Year 232 HSF/58 BCE.
After winter skirmishes on the fringes of Heruskalandam, the Armorica-Arvernan forces of King Chilperic triumph over the army of the Druhtinaz Osbehrt once again. The Samanoz army was decimated at the Battle of Diggerta, a village fifteen miles south of the city Hariowolafzburgaz (Berlin), the capital of Samanoheimat. However, King Chilperic was slain during a cavalry charge. Due to the death of their sovereign lord, the Armorican-Arvernan officers were reluctant to peruse their advantage. The twenty-one year old Prince Brochvalos, whom had led hisfather's cavalry Harjaz, assumed command of the army of the Armorican-Arvernans. Taking control of the situation, Brochvalos led the army to besiege the city of Hariowolafzburgaz after the ceremonial burial of his father. The city fell to Brochvalos within two weeks, before the spring came. Brochvalos refrained from sacking the city of Hariowolafz, and sacrificed in thanksgiving at the Nemeton of Wodanaz. With Osbehrt II's support among the Samanoz nobility lacking, he fled to his strongholds in Marcomannoheim. The newly crowned King Brochvalos hastily rode to the city of Haliswebaburgaz (Besancon), and through bribery and threats, persuaded the Thuidiringha into electing him the new Druhtinaz, even though Osbehrt II was still alive and at large.
Hermias Megastheniou, with the backing of the soldiers of his Egyptian ally, the Basileus Aegogeos II, destroys his rivals in Cyrenaia, and is happily installed as the ruler of the country.
King Breagho I of Bonnlandan and Helvetis raises an army of 46,000, and launches a seaborne invasion of Messana, one of the chief cities of the League of Sicilia, during the first month of spring. Attempt to relieve the siege by the 34,000 strong force of the Polmarch Arepippos of Panormos meets with failure. With the aid of siege artillery such as Ballisti and Onagers, the Bonnai forces bombard the walls of Messana before stormng into the city. Breagho lays waste and enslaves the local Hellenes.
The Numidians take further advantage of the Sicilian's problems when they invade the southern lands of Syrthim (Libya). Numerous Libyan clans move into the country, raiding the Hellenic Sicilian towns and farms for livestock and slaves.
Ermanarix of Aquitae and Sunthwalha commisions the construction of the Royal Ermanalissodun (Ermanar's Court and Citadel), a 47-acre wide, 7-storey palace, located north of Nemausos (Nimes). The chief architects were the Massaliote Plotinos and the native Arecomisci (Volcae tribe) Coroach moc Dennoros.
The Bactrian King Euthydemos IV is assassinated by the Chiliarch Basilikon Acelydon of Eschate. Acelydon's attempt to seize the throne fails when his co-conspirators betray him to Prince Timon of Marakanda, the cousin of the late king. Some of the Strategoi whom supported Acelydon's coup muster their troops in rebellion when Prince Timon executes Acelydon.
King Toccodos of Scordesia successfully negotiates a ceasefire with the Gutanz King Harewulfz II, whom agrees to settle his new frontier between the Mikra Prespa Lake and the Erigon River.
The Year 233 HSF/57 BCE.
King Breagho of Helvetis-Bonnlandan, at the head of his huge army, sacks the cities of Leontinoi, Katane, Naxos, and Megale Hyblaia. The citizen-militias of the Sicilian Leugue fail to stop the Bonnai onslaught of their homeland and against their people. The cities of Gela, Kamarina, Segesta, Akragas and Motya send emissaries to Breagho's encampments, to submit on the behalf of their cities, wishing to spare them from predations. Breagho detains the embassies to ensure their honesty.
The North African land of Syrthim is overrun by Numidian and Libyans pastoralist clans. Citizens of the Hellenic Sicilian colonies have the choice of submitting to the authority of the Numidian warlords, or seeking military aide from the eastern Kingdom of Cyrenaia. Syrthim degenrates into a wilderness as the two ethnic groups battle one another.
King Toccodos negotiates a peace treaty with King Toncommios I of Trocmia, allowing him to keep the lands of Odrysia. Toncommios agrees for the time being.
The Antidruhtinaz Brochvalos summons as many as 50,000 from his professional Druhtiz and the regional militia bands, and launches his invasion of the Kingdom of Marcomannoheim, so as to absorb its lands and capture Osbehrt II, who is still widely considered the legal and rightful Druhtinaz of the Sweboz Federation. He conquers the region within less than five months. Come the first month of autumn, Brochvalos had entrapped the fugitive Osbehrt II inside the city walls of Markomannogart, the capital of the ancient tribal territory, and the site of what is believed to be the home village of the Sweboz founder Hariowolafz. The city is taken by storm. Brochvalos was merciful to the inhabitants of the city, but his rival, taken captive during the fighting, was quietly put to death. Now undisputed as the formal overlord of the Sweboz, Brochvalos rode back to Haliswebaburgaz to silence his detractors by having them executed. Brochvalos would become the founder of the politically centralized Marurigion Swebaheimat (Maru Rigion/Great Kingdom).
King Luithard of the Bastarnae dies of great age. His grandson, the twenty-six year old Prince Fritigern, ascends to the throne.
Death of King Ludd of the Casse-Trinovantis. The ribal confederation collapses as individual chieftain egos flare up.
Prince Timon of Marakanda brutally eliminates the rebellious factions of the Bactrian nobility in a series of quick battles before formally assuming the throne of Bactria. The largest element among Timon's support base are the Hellenized ethnic Tocharians, many of whom serve in the Katapract and Hippotoxotoi squadrons. Timon, who himself has maternal Tocharian ancestry, makes his first official act to make peace with both the Xiongnu in the east, and the Megale Syrians in the west.
Prince Cassander has full control of Laconia, Attica, Aetolia now. Euboia and Pelopennesia are due to be subordinated. Cassander appoints the new Archons of the reconquered cities of Hellas.
The Year 234 HSF/56 BCE.
Euboia and Pelopennesia have been completely subdued and pacified by the armies of Megale Syria, under the command of Prince Cassander. Hellas is now under the military rule of Megale Syria. Within a month of the conquest, however, the thirty-nine year old Cassander receives word from Antioch that Antigonos I, his father, has died at the age of sixty-three. The political and economic infrastructure of Hellas has been torn apart by frequent warfare and famine, causing the death of thousands, while others had over the ten year Syrian-Scordisi War to flee to Egypt, Trocmian Anatolia, or Sicilia. The new Megale Syrian Emperor Cassander II encourages the recolonization of Hellas, settling repatriated Hellenes as well as Syrians, Medes and Persians in the country. The occupation army consists of 44,000 troops, garrisoned in Akras built across the peninsula.
The Armoric-Arvernan Druhtinaz Brochvalos began his military reforms of the Sweboz forces. The traditional fyrd-levy system of the constituent kingdoms was abolished. So no ambitious military governors, nor surviving members of the previous dynasties could use them in rebellion against the Druhtinaz. The royal Druhtiz army was expanded to include more Harjaz-divisions, and each enlisted soldier was required to swear a sacred oath before an engraved image of Brochvalos and in the names of Wodanaz-Lugus, Tiw-Camulos and Taranis that his first loyalty was to the Druhtinaz himself, lest he suffer unholy torments in the hereafter. Armouries were set up in the Druhtiz citadels of Swebaheimat, featuring workshops where the mass-production of high quality chainmail vests and rimmed bronze helmets, inscribed with the Druhtinaz' family crest of a prancing horse ahead of the sun was featured on the front of the helmets. The soldiers would be paid a regular salary of up to 20 Siluskatt a year. Brochvalos I was creating a truly professional army.
King Ralla of Cimbrolandam takes advantage of the deteriorating political state of the former Casse confederation in southern Britain by sending an army under the command of his friend and trustee, the Eorlaz Cyrnig. Having been appointed the Harjanaz, Cyrnig lands his troops on the eastern shores of the Iceni Kingdom. The Cimbro army consists of 35,000 troops, 12,000 of which are Scandza clan-warriors sent by the client-chieftains. Lord Cyrnig arrives under a truce at the court of the Iceni King Tugodunos, claiming that King Ralla has sent him to support his bid for the High Kingship of the Belgic kingdoms of southern Britain. King Ermanarix of Aquitae and Sunthwalha deals with the further rebellions of the resentful native Lusitani nobles in his kingdom. Thousands of Lusitani landowners arew killed and their families and dependents are enslaved. Their properties and holdings are confiscated and parcelled among the troops ordered to undertake the great harrying of Lusitanna.
King Fritigern of Bastarnoheimat recruits a huge army of 6000 horse-archers, 5000 Thuidi-Sarmatian heavy lancers, and as many as 51,000 spear and bow-armed levied infantry to under take the conquest of the Hellenistic Tauri Peninsula.
Death of King Toccodos of Scordesia after a long illness. He had no living children. A group of Scordisi nobles, fearful that the wars with Syria, the Gutanz and the Helveti-Bonnai would start all over again, offer the throne to the Trocmian King Toncommios I. At the head of a 9,000 strong army, Toncommios peacefully enters Scordisi country, marching to Brennopolis in triumph. He is crowned the ruler of the war-shrunken kingdom. This event would put him at serious odds with the Gutanz King Harewulfz II.
Rabbel III, the Malik (king) of the Arabian state of Sabaea, is beset by treachery, instigated by his brother, the Prince Ayyub, who is supported in his plotting by most of the nobles in Ma'rib and the Priesthood of Athtar, whom deems that the prince is less than pious and is a wastrel. The coup is successful for a time, but Rabbel and a few servants go to the city of Sabata, and stay in hiding as their are a number of armed men in the city whom know of the bounty placed upun the deposed Malik. Rabbel and his followers, who have taken some of the royal treasury with them. He spends time with the politically neutral Jewish community in Sabata, many of them merchants or exiles from Judea. Rabbel promises them much loot in return for his safety and if they help him regain his throne. After months of gathering support from Bedouin bandits, Rabbel and his army of rogues secretly enter Ma'rib, overpower the palace guards, and massacre the leaders of the coup, including the traitor Ayyub. The treacherous elements of the Athtar Priesthood is also put to the sword. And an even larger purging of the nobility in Ma'rib ensues. Grateful of the help rendered to him by the Sabatan Jews and the Bedouins, he bequeaths the confiscated properties of the traitors to them. The Sabatan Jewish leaders would take even more advantage of the favour granted to them by King Rabbel III. And their community would begin to thrive from there.
The Year 235 HSF/55 BCE.
King Harewulfz II of the Gutanz signs a treaty with King Toncommios of Trocmia, and recognize a mutual border, that being the Aimos Mountains (Balkan mountains), with the Gutanze-held city of Naissos serving as the main gateway into Troco-Scordesian territory. King Toncommios would later decide to relocate the capital of Trocmia in Orestias (Edirne).
In his invasion of the Taurian lands, King Fritigern of Bastarnoheimat captures the cities of Borysthenes and Chersonesos. The League of Tanais, led by the Hegemon Komon of Phanagoria, musters some 127,000 Polistai and Metikoi to arms, including some professional Mistophoroi Hippeis, Hoplitai and Toxotoi, to arms, in his bid to combat the invasion.
King Breagho of Helvetis-Bonnlandan secures his hold over the country of Epeiros across the Adriatic Sea. Due to burdensome taxation levied by their conquerors, many thousands of Sicilian and Kalabrian Polistai make the decision to flee to either Megale Syria, Egypt, or the Sweboz protectorate of Massalia, or even the Kingdom of Sunthwalha in the west.
The Druhtinaz Brochvalos I creates an auxiliary extension of the Druhtiz, known as the "Cintusos", or youth levy. Every young man aged from sixteen to twenty is expected to serve to years of military duty. Exceptions are given to those in the Druidic or Bardic castes, as well as the infirm or mentally unabled. While the sons of merchants are expected to to serve in non-combatants roles as sutlers and messengers. Unlike the professional soldiers of the Druhtiz, the young conscripts are expected, in addition to combat drill, to police the smaller town, the roadways, and provide labour for civil engineering projects in the kingdom. Archery is reported in the historical record as taken on more popularity among the class of free-peasants of the Sweboz Marurigion. Yew bows appear increasingly in the ranks of the new Cintusos force.
King Aristoboulos II of Judea instigates a new purging of the aristocracy in Samaria and Galilee, whom he fears to harbour a number of pro-Pharisee sympathizers. The whispers of restoring his deposed older brother have gotten louder. Nearly 3000 nobles are thought to have been arrested and executed during the year. This prompts many highborn families to either genuinely switch sides and flee to Judea in the south where Hyrcanus II rules at Egyptian pleasure. While others merely flee to Babylonia and Persia, where their kind have lived undisturbed for hundreds of years.
The Year 236 HSF/ 54 BCE.
The major Temple-Sanctuaries of Wodan-Lugus, Taranis, Cernonnus, and Tiw-Camulos, having long become pivotal to the general function of Swebozez society, have become repositories of both public and private wealth. The trustworthiness and discretion of Ansutonion priests is beyond criticism. Cernonnon Ansutonion are responsible for the keeping of the keeping of the public treasury and tax records, while the priesthood of Taranis are the regulators of the charities for the poor, the orphans, and the invalids.
The Lord Galba moc Caratac, a senior Ansutonion cleric as well as a first cousin of King Breagho of Helvetis-Bonnlandan, leads an embassy to the royal court of the Megale Syrian Megas Basileus Cassander II in Seleucia Basilike (Seleucia Tigris) in Mesopotamia. Lord Galba writes an account of all he sees. He also record meetings with theMegale Syrian Emperor, and other diplomatic delegations from parts of the wider world. He writes with particular interest the Indohellene diplomats from Gandhara and Meghada. And of course the Han delegation. Galba befriends the Han ambassador, called Jing Yi. They communicate in the Koinon Hellenic language of their hosts, and learn alot of each other's origins. Galba moc Caratac is intrigued with the great kingdom of China. After returning to the Bonnai capital of Ravenna four months later, Galba informs his cousin of China, and enthuses of opening direct diplomatic dialogue with them. King Breagho, however, is not convinced, as the journey east may would take many thousands of miles through unknown territory. Letdown by the lack of endorsement, Lord Galba takes his case to the Druhtinaz Brochvalos I, whom held court in the city of Bibracte. After outlining his intent to Brochvalos, the Druhtinaz assembles a party of nobles, guards and Ansutonion clerics to accompany Lord Galba on his mission, which he believes would take a year and seven months to reach the court of the Han Emperor.
King Micipsa II of Numidia succumbs to a plot led by his nephew, the eighteen year old Prince Ozacles. After the forty year old King was drowned in his bath, his wife and two young children were quietly murdered too. Many related princes and Numidian noblity suspected Ozalcles of the regicide, and the new king had to contend with rebellion by his own subjects.
King Lutarios I of Hayasdan dies at the age of sixty-two. He is succeeded by his thirty-two year old son, also named Lutarios.
The Bastarnae forces of King Fritigern destroy all Tauri allied armies sent against them. Theodosia, Pantikapaion, Nymphaion, Kimmerikon, and Kerkinitis have fallen in the past year. Olbia, having held out against a token Bastarnae army led by the Harjanaz Estes oi Decabalo, surrenders in exchange for milder terms, as does the city of Tyras the following month. Now only those cities of the League of Tanais that are situated on the opposite shores of the Maotian Lake remain to challenge the might of King Fritigern.
King Harewulfz II dies at the age of sixty-seven. His successor is the eighteen year old Prince Dromichaetes. The boy was given a Getic Thracian name as part of the acculturation of Gutenic nobility in Getia. During his reign, the native cult of Zalmoxis regains some of its past importance, even though the new King is an avowed Ansumannoz (singular: Ansuz Man, or follower).
The Year 237 HSF/53 BCE.
The ambassador Galba moc Caratac embarks on his journey east, leading a party of fifty noble-born diplomats, Druhtambacti (Royal Retainers), and servants. Among them is the nineteen year old Princess Chiomara, the unwed younger sister of the Druhtinaz Brochvalos, and an accomplished diplomat in her own right. It was her initiative to join the mission, although the Druhtinaz had some misgivings about her choice. They set sail from Massalia before the spring, arriving at the port of Antioch in Syria five weeks later.
The Numidian King Ozalces I tries to establish friendly relations with the Verrix Ermanarix of Sunthwalha. He sends his half-sister, the fifteen year old Princess Dihya, as a bride to Ermanarix, who marries her during the spring.
King Breagho sends a new force of 50,000 to the Gobremorg of Epeiros, since the exiled Scordisi noble Prince Tychos moc Derchal returns to the country, and stirs up sedition. Breagho must also contend with rebellion in Sicilia, which is instigated by Endymion of Naulochos.
King Fritigern musters a fleet in the ports of Dionysospolis, Tyras and Olbia to ferry his troops to attack the remaining free cities of the League of Tanais.
Death of Basileus Menander II of Meghada at the age of thirty-seven from malaria. The crown is inherited by Menander's younger brother, thirty-one year old Prince Heraclios. The new Basileus Heraclios I would open up to nine philosophical schools in the Kingdom of Meghada. A consummate diplomat, Heraclios betroths his seven year old daughter, the Princess Thais, to the youngest son of the Gandharan King Zoilos III, the seven year old Prince Phillipos.
Exiled Judean nobles and scholars with Pharisiac symphaphies and alliegences are known to have appeared in the Jewish communities in Sabaea, to curry favour with King Rabbel III.
The Year 238 HSF/ 52 BCE.
The League of Tanais is devastated by te Bastarnae invasion. By the summer, the leading city of Tanais is besieged by a force of 20,000 Bastarnae troops, commanded personally commanded by the aggressive King Fritigern.
Galba moc Caratac, the Princess Chiomara and their retinue had presented themselves at the Basileus' court in Seleucia Basilike before riding eastward through Persian satrapies. At the beginning of the year, they reach the royal court of Bactra, to present themselves before the Bactrian Basileus Timon I. As in Seleucia, they present gifts of exquisite jewellery on behalf of the Druhtinaz Brochvalos of Swebaheimat. King Timon becomes smitten with the Princess Chiomara, and she remains at the Bactrian royal court as the rest of the Sweboz delegation continue the journey. Chiomara is taken as Timon's wife. Opening a permanent channel with the Sweboz Marurigion.
The Hayasdani King Lutarios II recruits settled Scythians on the northern marches of his kingdom to combat yearly raids by the Sarmatian clans in the north. Horse-archers become a regular feature in the Keltoi-Hayasdani forces.
The Sicilian rebellion led by Endymion of Naulochos is utterly crushed by the Helveti-Bonnai forces, commanded by the Harjanaz Divicaicos Metellus. Endymion, now on the run, commits suicide to avoid betrayal by his countrymen. Syracuse is sacked, and garrisons are installed in Himera, Messana, Lilybeaum, Naxos, Gela, Megale Hyblaia, Motya and Leontinoi.
Artillery, such as Ballistai, Magonals, Onagers, and the Polybolos (Scorpion) become a regular feature in the armies of Swebaheimat, Aquitae-Sunthwalha, and Helvetis-Bonnlandan.
The Sabaean King Rabbel III hosts a number of exiled Judean nobles at his royal court in Ma'rib, most of which are Pharisees. Sabaea has for two hundred years, possibly longer, has possessed a growing number of Jews, numbering roughly a hundred thousand, most of which were born in Sabaea. Rabbel has grown personally interested in their faith, and has taken for wife Rebekah, the sixteen year old daughter of an exiled Pharisee noble courtier named Gideon ben Nahum. Rebekah is soon with child. She goes on to give birth to a healthy boy named Rabbel Ishak. The young Prince is the key to the future for Judaism in Sabaea.
The alliance of the Cimbri and the Iceni successfully gain the capitulation of the confederation led by the Catuvellauni.
The Year 239 HSF/51 BCE.
The Druhtinaz Brochvalos of Swebaheimat amasses a fleet carrying an army of 36,000 to invade the western British tribal lands of the Silures (Gwent), the Ordivices (Gwynedd), and the Gangani (Llyn Peninsula, Wales). This was a calculated move to secure the territory surrounding the holy island of Mona, the holiest place in all of Britain, the "Island of the Gods". The over-kings of the Silures, the Ordovices and the Gangani were seperately forced to surrender in a lightening campaign directed by the Harjanaz Albanos moc Aethelnoth. The kings were forced to send sons and daughters as hostages to the court of Druhtinaz Brochvalos I.
The Sweboz diplomatic delegation led by the Ansutoni Galba moc Caratac reaches the territory of the Xiongnu, and pay their respects to the supreme ruler, or "Shan-Yu" (Majesty Son of Heaven) named Zhizhi. The Majestic Son of Heaven was generous enough to provide an escort to the exotic Sweboz delegation as far as Han territory. Within three months, Galba and his party were admitted into the presence of the Han Emperor, where they prostrated themselves before the throne of Xuan of Han. Galba was recognized by Jing Yi, who was present at the Han court at that time.
Tanais and the remaining League cities of Tauri are sacked by the Bastarnae forces of King Fritigern, who now has complete control over the country.
The Basileus Timon I of Bactria establishes a permanent peace with Megale Syria by offering his younger sister, the seventeen year old Princess Tamikka, to the fifteen year old Prince Perdiccas. The wedding takes place in Seleukeia Basilike.
The Year 240 HSF/50 BCE.
Galba moc Caratac returns to Seleukeia, minus the Princess Chiomara, whom was now the consort of the Bactrian King Timon I, who was entranced by the girls beauty and intellect. Before too long, Swebozez merchants would make regular trips through Megale Syria and the Pontic Steppe.
Aristoboulos II, who was merely the Megale Syrian puppet-king of Samaria and Galilee, had died, apparently of over-drinking despite whispers of murder. His young son Antigonos ascended the throne of Samaria, with the sought approval of the Megale Syrian Emperor Cassander II. Antigonos' trusted regent, Antipater, a man of Idumean birth, would govern in his name.
King Fritigern of the Bastarnae relocates the his capital at Hellenic city of Chersonesos. He also forces the submission of a number of sedentary Sarmatian clans in the north.
The city of Gloudunon (Gloucester) is founded on the eastern bank Severn River. This becomes the centre of Sweboz authority in the west of Britain.
Prince Tychos moc Derchal dies during the Battle Arachthos River. His body is dismembered before the King Breagho of Helvetis-Bonnlandan. The Epirote rebellion is extinguished. And Tychos moc Derchal is remembered as a folk-hero in Epeiros.
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The bulk of the old Sweboz Federation, consisting of Germania, Belgica, and most of Gaul, is solidly reunited as the new and politically centralized Marurigion (Gallic words for great kingdom). The Druhtinaz Brochvalos, the heir to the constituent Sweboz kingdoms of Gaul and the conqueror of the eastern Germanic lands, will follow up his military and political reforms by co-creating an official agency for Ansuzlagam. The Druidic priesthoods have effectively coalesced into solid pillars of Sweboz civil society, and have been something of a counterbalance to royalist authority, even when they generally support it. Since the conquest of the Gallic kingdoms by Marubod, some tribes such as the Belgic Nervii and Remi, and the Aedui and Carnutes had placed their support behind the Sweboz conquerors, and became part of the new order that dominated Gaul. The support of the Druids was the key to the stability of Sweboz rule. And in that stability, higher-level institutions had evolved within the first two hundred years, as the ancient class of holymen and judges, doctors and lore-keepers gradually became a coherent and focused bureaucracy.
During the second decade of Brochvalos's reign, a historical milestone will be reached in Sweboz culture, when the urban Druidic priesthoods become algamated into a single governing body:
The "Bitunemeton".
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During the second decade of Brochvalos's reign, a historical milestone will be reached in Sweboz culture, when the urban Druidic priesthoods become algamated into a single governing body:
The "Bitunemeton".
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I intend to release another of update of this thread over the weekend. As I've mentioned before, this comes with revelations on the organizational structure for the new pillar of the Ansuzlagam faith in the Sweboz kingdoms. The Bitunemeton (world temple, curtesy of Gaulish Concise Dictionary) will be a professional clerical hierarchy manned by the caste of Celtic Druids and Germanic Gudjons in Sweboz society.
The Year 241 HSF/ 49 BCE.
The Druids of Mona are recorded as making a political alliance with the Sweboz Druhtinaz Brochvalos. The next fifty years will see the ideology of Ansuzlagam be gradually embraced by the Druids and Vates, whom are the centre of all faith in Prydenn (Britain). The growth of centralized hierarchy would be adopted internally by the holymen of Mona.
Galba moc Caratac and his entourage sail across the Hyrcanian Sea to the shores of Arhuank (Caucasian Albania), a province of the Kingdom Hayasdan. Galba would soon seek an audience with King Lutarios II. Lutarios wishes for Galba moc Caratac to carry a message to Brochvalos of the Sweboz to enquire about the possibility of dynastic relations between their families. The Ansutoni Galba is given gifts of gold and some Scythian slave-girls before he and his party departed west.
The Numidian King Ozalces survives an assassination attempt by his own courtiers. He relies increasingly on his foreign bodyguards, being of Hellenic and Keltoi origins, to protect him from his treacherous vassals.
King Tharamar of Teutalandam dies without issue at the age of forty-three. The Thuidiringa of Teutalandam convenes on the election to chose for the kingship which members of the late King Tharamar's extended family should succeed him. Tharamar was in life an increasingly paranoid man, whom ruled over an isolated kingdom. There were purgings among the nobility and even members of his own family had suffered his murderous rages. The issue of succession would not be resolved soon enough before infighting broke out between the nobles of the Thuidiringa. Those bitter rivalries would breakout into open battles between the retinues of the various Kuniz's (chieftains). The late king's nephew, the twenty-two year old Prince Budic, whom had previously fled with his mother to Cimbrolandam when his uncle tried to have them proscribed, made his claim to the throne with the aid of Thuliz and the Druhtiwardon. The resident nobility would be forced to recognize the legitimacy of Budic's reign. But Budic was politically inexperienced and would rely increasingly on the counsel of the Ansutonion at court, along with a force of Luguwan (Lugii) warriors.
The Verrix Ermanar of Sunthwalha sends a force of 4000 troops to the island of Malta, which alarms the Numidians and the Helveti-Bonnai. Ermanar wishes to land troops in Africa in the near future.
The Han Emperor Xuan dies.
The Year 242 HSF/ 48 BCE.
Clans of the Sarmatian Roxsalani begin to appear on the eastern fringes of Tetalandam. King Budic permits them to settle in the region in return for lending him a quota of warriors to serve in his forces.
King Fritigern, the Bastarnoz overlord of Scythia and Tauri, marries a princess of the Budini of Gelonus, a wealthy trading power in the north. Goar, the King of the Budini sends emissaries to Teutalandam, the Gutanz of Getia, Cimbrolandam and Sweboheimat. Galba moc Caratac returns to Europe via the Pontos Euxine, sails through the mouth of the Ister River (Danube), before reaching Norica. He returns to the court of Brochvalos in Bibracte. Lord Galba become a hero among his people. His acheivements would inspire both scholars and adventurers.
King Ralla of Cimbrolandam negotiates secretly with the Verrix Ermanar of Sunthwalha, as they both view the increasing military might of the Druhtinaz Brochvalos as a threat to the security of their realms.
The Megas Basileus Cassander II makes his eighteen year old son, Prince Perdiccas, his co-ruler of Megale Syria.
The Year 243 HSF/ 47 BCE.
King Budic of Teutalandam marries the younger sister of the Gatanz King Dromichaetes I, the Princess Zismala. Teutalandam is home to a large number of the Gutanz tribe, and is the original homeland of the kindred that now composes the small aristocracy that currently rules Getia, also known as Gutanheimat. The two kingdoms see themselves as natural allies.
The Numidian King Ozalces flees the country after his subject nobles openly rebel agisnt him, seizing control of major cities such as Carthage, Adrumeto, Thapsos and Kirta. Ozalces decides to sails with a small following of retainers and family to the court of King Ermanar of Sunthwalha, requesting his help to restore him to his throne. This is the pretext for the invasion of Numidia that Ermanar had been waiting for.
The young King Perdiccas establishes his own court in Damascus in Koile-Syria. His father, the Emperor Cassander II, continues to rule the Empire from the city of Seleukeia on the Tigris River in Mesopotamia. Cassander begins to dictate his ideas for a number of civic administration reforms in Megale Syria.
Death of the Verrix Breagho of Helvetis-Bonnlandam at the age of fifty from a fever. He is succeeded by his son, the twenty-one year old Prince Totilios Totilios inherits an empire consisting of the Alpine regions of Helvetis, the northern Italian lands of Bonnlandam, Lucania, Bruttium, Apulia, Calabria , Sicila, Dalmata and Epeiros.
The Year 244 HSF/ 46 BCE.
The Pharoah Aegogeos II dies at the age of sixty-five. He is succeeded by his thirty-two year old son Prince Aegogeos, whose reign will prove disastrous for Egypt.
"Gutanheimat" is increasingly refered to as "Getiaheimat" in literary sources. The distinctions of the national Getic cultural heritage and that of the dominant Gutanz ruling power will become blurred over time. Zalmoxis is by now acknowledged by the Ansutonion in Getia, given the profound reverence for Him by the Thracian people. He is considered a son of the Great God Lugus-Gebeleizis. This steady adaptation of Getic cultural norms will inflence the way Ansuzlagam is practiced in this country.
The Numidian cities of Carthage, Utica, Thapsos and Adrumeto have been recaptured by partisans of the exiled King Ozalces, who are aided by the allies from Sunthwalha. King Ozalces purges the Numidian nobility of hostile elements before conscripting Libyans nomads and Punim peasants into his forces, which he intends to lead into the heartlands of Numidia against the remaining rebels.
The Sweboz Marurigion enters into a brief war with the Kingdom of Cimbrolandam over the supremacy of Prydenn. The invasion of Catuvellauni territory by the Sweboz and the submission of the former weakens the Cimbros' power in eastern Prydenn. Brochvalos leads the campaign personally. The naval battle off the coast of Dubron (Dover) results in the devastation of the Cimbrian warfleet. King Ralla, suffering from high-stress levels and worn down by old age, reluctantly agrees to an unequal treaty, allowing the Sweboz to take the remaining Cimbroz fortresses in Ratae, Elmeta and Briganta. Ralla also agreed to allow Sweboz Ansutoni to preach and supervise the temples in his kingdom, and to re-affirm Cimbrolandam as a client-kingdom once more. With Cimbrolandam nominally brought back within the Sweboz fold, Brochvalos was now the virtual overlord of the Prydenni kingdoms. Hostages from the former Cimbri client-tribes would be transported to the custody of the royal court of the Sweboz Druhtinaz.
The 245 HSF/ 45 BCE.
The Numidian King Ozalces permits that the recently recaptured city of Hippone (Hippo Regius/modern Annaba, Algeria) be granted to his Sunthwalhan allies as a port and base of naval operations. Support within the Kingdom of Numidia for the person of King Ozalces is still weak, so he is forced to make such concessions for his allies, for they are helping him to retain his hold on power.
King Lutarios II of Hayasdan suppresses a number of uprisings against his authority by the Nekharar (native Armenian nobility), all of them led by persons claiming descent from the long-deposed Yervanduni House (Orontids). The tribes of the land of "Aluank" (Caucasian Albania), under the leadership of the native chieftain Tigranes, successfully secede from the rule of Lutarid Hayasdan.
An abortive rebellion by among the Markomannoz Sibbes (clans) is crushed by a Harja (military contingent) sent by the Druhtinaz Brochvalos. Some two hundred Earlaz (lower noblemen) leading the insurrection are publically executed. The reason for the rebellion was due to the increase in land-tax, along with Brochvalos' reduction of the provincial Thengaz' ability to exercise its authority.
King Totilios of Helvetis-Bonnlandam faces down a number of local revolts against his rule in Epeiros and Dalmatia.
Bonnai (Italian Boii) merchants in Syria establish an informal enclave on the mouth of the Orontes River. This community consists of some four hundred persons. Helvetis-Bonnlandam retains its strong diplomatic relationship with Megale Syria.
The Year 246 HSF/ 44 BCE.
King Totilios of Helvetis-Bonnlandam continues to brutally quell further uprisings, this time among the Hellenic peoples in Kalabria and Sikilia. Atrocities are committed against the local populace. Whole villages are razed to the ground.
Death of King Wulfhere of Norica at the age of fifty-three from a long drawn out illness. Wulfhere has left no legitimate children after him, although he was married to three women. However, the children he did have were bastards sired off slave girls. The Rigo-Thulis of Norica, Lord Vocionus moc Rennodotoros, in an effort to avoid civil conflict within the autonomous Sweboz Kingdom of Norica between the main Taurisci Arjos (nobles), offers the throne personally to King Brochvalos himself, on the condition that he allows the kingdom to retain its seperate autonomy, as well as the support of Vocionus as the perpetual regent of Norica. Brochvalos is happy to accept this condition, and visits Norica in state to accept the crown. The Thuliz Vocionus continues to govern the kingdom in Brochvalos' name.
King Lutarios II of Hayasdan arranges a political marriage between his son, Prince Bagradates, and a daughter of King Kuluk of Aursa (Aorsi/Alans), whom rules the former Megale Syrian satrapy on the northern coast of the Hyrcanian Sea. Some 3000 Aorsi horsemen accompany the princess, named Rauyana, to her wedding in Lutarkert.
King Timon I of Baktria organizes a military campaign against the Xiongnu, the enemies of his mother's people, the Tocharians. He leads an army of 79,000, including some 15,000 Tocharian client tribal warriors from the plains of Ariana. After leading them through the Hexi Corridor, Timon and his Bactro-Tocharian army captures the city of Euthydemopolis (OTL Jiuquan) in the early days of spring. The Han Empire becomes quickly embroiled in the conflict when Zhizhi Chanyu (Xiongnu emperor) requested aid from the Han Emperor Wudi. The Han forces, under the command of the Protector-General Chen Tang, secured the city of Liangzhou (modern Wuwei, Gansu). Timon and his forces successfully besiege the city of Dunhuang in the late summer, despite attempts by the Han to relieve their Xiongnu allies besieged in the city. By the end of the year, Ganzhou (Zhangye) remains as the main Xiongnu stronghold in the Hexi Corridor. Hundred of Tocharian soldiers in Baktrian service were posted in forts built in the passes of the Tian Shan mountains to keep sentinal on the movements of the Saka to the far north.
The Year 247 HSF/ 43 BCE.
Organizational reforms of Megale Syrian civil administration take place. Metropolitan regions, such as Antiocheia, Seleukeia, Damascus, Babylon, Ekbatana, Hekatompylos, Apameia, Persepolis, Susa, Charax and Edessa, all the major cities, are henceforth to be supervised on a local sub-satrapal level by an official called an Episkopos (Overseer). This is to decrease the civil authority of the Satraps.
King Timon I of Baktria leads his forces in breaching the defences of Ganzhou and sacks the oasis city. He then negotiates a peace treaty with the Han Empire. The Han would retain the city of Liangzhou and the surrounding Guanzhong region would remain unmolested by either Tocharian or Baktrian forces.
Death of Antipater ben Hanan, the chief minister of Antigonos II Mattathias. His sons, Phaesal and Herod, respectively the governors of Samaria and Galilee on behalf of King Antigonos Mattathias.
Carvilios of Avaricon, a high priest of Wodan-Lugos in the city of Avaricon and a renowned theologian, is credited with the authorship of the "Book of Aedhos", the legendary Aedui Druid whom served as an advisor to the first Sweboz Druhtinaz Hariowolafz. Aedhos is also considered by many as the true founder of the Ansuzlagam religion. He is said to have been buried in the woods outside the city of Autricon, where a shrine is dedicated to him in the sacred district of the city. The Ansutoni cleric Carvilios is already well acquainted to the reigning Druhtinaz Brochvalos.
The Year 248 HSF/ 42 BCE.
King Ozalces dies at the age of thirty-two. He was murdered by memebrs of his court, who saw him as too amenable to his Sunthwalhan allies. Without any clear successors, and none of his surviving children being older than ten years, factions from across the kingdom begin to compete violently for the kingship of Numidia. The Sunthwalhan Verrix Ermanar assembles a new army of 36,000 and appoints the Harjanaz Calgacos of Bascui to command them. The Aquita-Sunthwalhan force lands in Hippone in early spring and marches inland to Cirta. The capital is atken after two months. Further battles and skirmishes ensue between the different tribal chiefs and city-based princes and suffets. The cities of Carthage, Atiqa/Utica, Adrumeto and Thapsos assume virtual autonomy in the absence of central authority.
Death of Kings Lutarios II OF Hayasdan at the age of forty-three. He is succeeded by his seventeen year old son, Prince Bagradates.
The co-Basileus of Megale Syria, Perdiccas, persuades his father, Cassander II, to sanction a military campaign against Egypt, given the weak state of the government of King Aegogeos III. Aegogeos' indifference to his duties as Egypt's ruler has alienated him from his subordinates and his subjects. Perdiccas sails to Egypt at the head of an army of 89,000, most of whom were levied in Syria, Assyrie, Cilicia, Cyprus and Phoenicia. They land west of Alexandreia. The city is captured by mid-summer. Megale Syrian troops continue to rampage through Lower Egypt. The Pharoah Aegogeos III and his court flee to Memphis and fortify themselves there. Meanwhile, on the orders of Perdiccas, troops storm the Alexandreum sanctuary in the "Soma" district of Alexandreia to take the body of the city's founder, the legendary Megas Alexandros. Priests of the Alexandreum are pushed aside as Syrian soldiers drag the sarcophogus of the Conqueror of the World, which provokes a riot inthe Royal Quarter of Alexandreia. The riot is bloodily suppressed. The body of Alexander is then shipped to Antioch. Afterwards, the body is transported under heavy guard on the road to Seleukeia in Mesopotamia. The Megas Basileus Cassander eagerly pays his respects to the body of Alexander, before making arrangements for the construction of a new sanctuary home for The Body. Millions will flock to Seleukeia in many future pilgrimages for centuries to come. Perhaps forseeing the difficulties of maintaining military control over Egypt, Perdiccas wished to justify his position by carrying away Egypts most sacred relic. The Royal Library was raided as well during the Syrian occupation of Egypt.
King Toncommios of Trocmia, in response to the Megale Syrian invasion of Egypt, amasses an army of 65,000 and invades the Satrapy of Cilicia, capturing the cities of Pendosis, Adana, Zephyrion and Tarsos.
The Kingdom of Atropatene, a client-state of Megale Syria Empire in the southern Caucasus, chooses to align himself with the Hayasdani kingdom, adding strengh to the cause of King Bagradates. This would put the Armenians at odds with Megale Syria.
The Year 249 HSF/ 41 BCE.
The Druhtinaz Brochvalos calls for the First Council of Autricon (Chartres) to establish the official doctrine of the new Bitunemeton (World Temple), the first official governing body of the Ansuzlagam religion. Brochvalos wished to further solidify the spiritual primacy over the Ansuthuidi states of Sunthwalha (Iberia), Bonnlandam (Italy), Getiaheimat, Bastarnoheimat (Bastarnae homeland/Moldovia-western Ukraine), Cimbrolandam (Denmark), Teutalandam (north-western Poland) and the tribal kingdoms of Albaha (Britain). Another purpose was to create a formal administrative network for Swebaheimat, along with reconciling the urban-based priesthoods that Ansuzlagam was built on with the distinct communities of Druids and Gudjons that remained seperate from the Ansuzlagam hierarchy. These communities were refered to by many of the common pepole as the "Caddo" (the holy ones).
Death of the Gandharan King Zoilos III at the age of fifty-eight. He is succeeded by his seven year old grandson, Prince Pantaleon. The Chiliarchos Basilikon Euclideas of Nalanda acts as the regent of the young Pantaleon III.
After securing the conquest of Cilicia, Toncommios raises another 20,000 and sails for Egypt, landing close to Alexandreia. The ailing Megas Basileus Cassander II marshals another army of 90,000, recruited from the satrapies of Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Elymais, Media and Parthia, and sends them under the command of the Strategos Mopsos of Susa. When this army reached Cilicia, they were defeated by the 87,000 strong Trocmian force, commanded by Prince Bolgios of Sinope. The Trocmian forces in Egypt meanwhile captures the city of Alexandreia from the Syrians, under the command of Antimachos of Margiana, before linking up with their Aegogenid Egyptian allies, who were still holding the Nomes around Memphis. Perdiccas, who was leading his forces in the subjugation of Upper Egypt, withdrew to the coast of the Red Sea, taking ship to the Sinai Peninsula.
King Bagradates of Hayasdan cements an alliance with the Kingdom of Trocmia. King Toncommios is grateful with this alliance, given his conflict with the powerful Megale Syrians.
Megale Syrian forces, commanded by the Strategos Dionysos of Apameia, aided by the 9,000 strong force of ex-patriot Armenioi led by the warlord Zariadres, push into the south-west of Hayasdan, in the country of Sophene. The cities of Karkathiokerta and Amida are taken during the summer. The Megas Basileus Cassander II invests the Armenian general, Prince Zariadres, a purported descendent of the Orontid dynasty, as the new King of Sophene, making the conquered territory into a new client-kingdom of Megale Syria. Some 80,000 exiled Armenioi from Syria and Phoenicia are re-settled in Sophene.
The Year 250 HSF/ 40 BCE.
Phaesal, the Tetrarch of Samaria, with the permission of Cassander II, assembles a force 35,000, and travels by ship down the coast to land in the Sinai to aid his overlord, King Perdiccas. After joining forces with the Syrian army, they meet the Troco-Egyptian alliance at Mitla Pass. Phaesal of Samaria dies from a sword-thrust from a Trocmian officer during the heat of battle. Having lost the Battle of Mitla Pass to the Troco-Egyptians under the command of King Tincommios, the Syro-Samarian army retreat into southern Judea.
King Totilios of Helvetis-Bonnlandam forces the Numidian ruler of Qorsim and Sardin, the Prince Galussa, to cease his raids on Bonnai shipping in the Mediterranean after landing troops in Qorsim. Galussa becomes a vassal of Totilios.
King Timon I of Baktria organizes the new client-kingdom of Tocharia (Gansu), installing as its king his younger brother, the twenty-eight year old Prince Clearches. Further military campaigns would be made against the Xiongnu through the year to capture the cities of Aksu, Korla, Turpan, Khocho (Gaochang), Loulan, Shule (Kashgar) and Kuga. The newly annointed King Clearches I of Tocharia, an experienced and skilled general in his own right, would command the Hellenistic Tocharian forces against the western Xiongnu for much of his reign.
The Druhtinaz Brochvalos brutally suppresses an insurrection in the Belgae, Heruskoz (Cherusci) and Hattingaz (Chatti) regions, which were instigated by the "Caddo" (holy ones), the independently living communities of Druids and Gudjons whom remain seperate from the formal Ansuzlagam hierarchy in Sweboz society. With the endorsement of the Ansutonion priesthood, Brochvalos orders his soldiers to destroy the more troublesome communities. Some twenty-seven villages are recorded as being put to the sword by the Druhtine forces. It is also reported that the inhabitants were ritually killed in the "old way". One account reports that men, women and children are said to have been garroted and thrown into the marshes.
The Druids of Mona are recorded as making a political alliance with the Sweboz Druhtinaz Brochvalos. The next fifty years will see the ideology of Ansuzlagam be gradually embraced by the Druids and Vates, whom are the centre of all faith in Prydenn (Britain). The growth of centralized hierarchy would be adopted internally by the holymen of Mona.
Galba moc Caratac and his entourage sail across the Hyrcanian Sea to the shores of Arhuank (Caucasian Albania), a province of the Kingdom Hayasdan. Galba would soon seek an audience with King Lutarios II. Lutarios wishes for Galba moc Caratac to carry a message to Brochvalos of the Sweboz to enquire about the possibility of dynastic relations between their families. The Ansutoni Galba is given gifts of gold and some Scythian slave-girls before he and his party departed west.
The Numidian King Ozalces survives an assassination attempt by his own courtiers. He relies increasingly on his foreign bodyguards, being of Hellenic and Keltoi origins, to protect him from his treacherous vassals.
King Tharamar of Teutalandam dies without issue at the age of forty-three. The Thuidiringa of Teutalandam convenes on the election to chose for the kingship which members of the late King Tharamar's extended family should succeed him. Tharamar was in life an increasingly paranoid man, whom ruled over an isolated kingdom. There were purgings among the nobility and even members of his own family had suffered his murderous rages. The issue of succession would not be resolved soon enough before infighting broke out between the nobles of the Thuidiringa. Those bitter rivalries would breakout into open battles between the retinues of the various Kuniz's (chieftains). The late king's nephew, the twenty-two year old Prince Budic, whom had previously fled with his mother to Cimbrolandam when his uncle tried to have them proscribed, made his claim to the throne with the aid of Thuliz and the Druhtiwardon. The resident nobility would be forced to recognize the legitimacy of Budic's reign. But Budic was politically inexperienced and would rely increasingly on the counsel of the Ansutonion at court, along with a force of Luguwan (Lugii) warriors.
The Verrix Ermanar of Sunthwalha sends a force of 4000 troops to the island of Malta, which alarms the Numidians and the Helveti-Bonnai. Ermanar wishes to land troops in Africa in the near future.
The Han Emperor Xuan dies.
The Year 242 HSF/ 48 BCE.
Clans of the Sarmatian Roxsalani begin to appear on the eastern fringes of Tetalandam. King Budic permits them to settle in the region in return for lending him a quota of warriors to serve in his forces.
King Fritigern, the Bastarnoz overlord of Scythia and Tauri, marries a princess of the Budini of Gelonus, a wealthy trading power in the north. Goar, the King of the Budini sends emissaries to Teutalandam, the Gutanz of Getia, Cimbrolandam and Sweboheimat. Galba moc Caratac returns to Europe via the Pontos Euxine, sails through the mouth of the Ister River (Danube), before reaching Norica. He returns to the court of Brochvalos in Bibracte. Lord Galba become a hero among his people. His acheivements would inspire both scholars and adventurers.
King Ralla of Cimbrolandam negotiates secretly with the Verrix Ermanar of Sunthwalha, as they both view the increasing military might of the Druhtinaz Brochvalos as a threat to the security of their realms.
The Megas Basileus Cassander II makes his eighteen year old son, Prince Perdiccas, his co-ruler of Megale Syria.
The Year 243 HSF/ 47 BCE.
King Budic of Teutalandam marries the younger sister of the Gatanz King Dromichaetes I, the Princess Zismala. Teutalandam is home to a large number of the Gutanz tribe, and is the original homeland of the kindred that now composes the small aristocracy that currently rules Getia, also known as Gutanheimat. The two kingdoms see themselves as natural allies.
The Numidian King Ozalces flees the country after his subject nobles openly rebel agisnt him, seizing control of major cities such as Carthage, Adrumeto, Thapsos and Kirta. Ozalces decides to sails with a small following of retainers and family to the court of King Ermanar of Sunthwalha, requesting his help to restore him to his throne. This is the pretext for the invasion of Numidia that Ermanar had been waiting for.
The young King Perdiccas establishes his own court in Damascus in Koile-Syria. His father, the Emperor Cassander II, continues to rule the Empire from the city of Seleukeia on the Tigris River in Mesopotamia. Cassander begins to dictate his ideas for a number of civic administration reforms in Megale Syria.
Death of the Verrix Breagho of Helvetis-Bonnlandam at the age of fifty from a fever. He is succeeded by his son, the twenty-one year old Prince Totilios Totilios inherits an empire consisting of the Alpine regions of Helvetis, the northern Italian lands of Bonnlandam, Lucania, Bruttium, Apulia, Calabria , Sicila, Dalmata and Epeiros.
The Year 244 HSF/ 46 BCE.
The Pharoah Aegogeos II dies at the age of sixty-five. He is succeeded by his thirty-two year old son Prince Aegogeos, whose reign will prove disastrous for Egypt.
"Gutanheimat" is increasingly refered to as "Getiaheimat" in literary sources. The distinctions of the national Getic cultural heritage and that of the dominant Gutanz ruling power will become blurred over time. Zalmoxis is by now acknowledged by the Ansutonion in Getia, given the profound reverence for Him by the Thracian people. He is considered a son of the Great God Lugus-Gebeleizis. This steady adaptation of Getic cultural norms will inflence the way Ansuzlagam is practiced in this country.
The Numidian cities of Carthage, Utica, Thapsos and Adrumeto have been recaptured by partisans of the exiled King Ozalces, who are aided by the allies from Sunthwalha. King Ozalces purges the Numidian nobility of hostile elements before conscripting Libyans nomads and Punim peasants into his forces, which he intends to lead into the heartlands of Numidia against the remaining rebels.
The Sweboz Marurigion enters into a brief war with the Kingdom of Cimbrolandam over the supremacy of Prydenn. The invasion of Catuvellauni territory by the Sweboz and the submission of the former weakens the Cimbros' power in eastern Prydenn. Brochvalos leads the campaign personally. The naval battle off the coast of Dubron (Dover) results in the devastation of the Cimbrian warfleet. King Ralla, suffering from high-stress levels and worn down by old age, reluctantly agrees to an unequal treaty, allowing the Sweboz to take the remaining Cimbroz fortresses in Ratae, Elmeta and Briganta. Ralla also agreed to allow Sweboz Ansutoni to preach and supervise the temples in his kingdom, and to re-affirm Cimbrolandam as a client-kingdom once more. With Cimbrolandam nominally brought back within the Sweboz fold, Brochvalos was now the virtual overlord of the Prydenni kingdoms. Hostages from the former Cimbri client-tribes would be transported to the custody of the royal court of the Sweboz Druhtinaz.
The 245 HSF/ 45 BCE.
The Numidian King Ozalces permits that the recently recaptured city of Hippone (Hippo Regius/modern Annaba, Algeria) be granted to his Sunthwalhan allies as a port and base of naval operations. Support within the Kingdom of Numidia for the person of King Ozalces is still weak, so he is forced to make such concessions for his allies, for they are helping him to retain his hold on power.
King Lutarios II of Hayasdan suppresses a number of uprisings against his authority by the Nekharar (native Armenian nobility), all of them led by persons claiming descent from the long-deposed Yervanduni House (Orontids). The tribes of the land of "Aluank" (Caucasian Albania), under the leadership of the native chieftain Tigranes, successfully secede from the rule of Lutarid Hayasdan.
An abortive rebellion by among the Markomannoz Sibbes (clans) is crushed by a Harja (military contingent) sent by the Druhtinaz Brochvalos. Some two hundred Earlaz (lower noblemen) leading the insurrection are publically executed. The reason for the rebellion was due to the increase in land-tax, along with Brochvalos' reduction of the provincial Thengaz' ability to exercise its authority.
King Totilios of Helvetis-Bonnlandam faces down a number of local revolts against his rule in Epeiros and Dalmatia.
Bonnai (Italian Boii) merchants in Syria establish an informal enclave on the mouth of the Orontes River. This community consists of some four hundred persons. Helvetis-Bonnlandam retains its strong diplomatic relationship with Megale Syria.
The Year 246 HSF/ 44 BCE.
King Totilios of Helvetis-Bonnlandam continues to brutally quell further uprisings, this time among the Hellenic peoples in Kalabria and Sikilia. Atrocities are committed against the local populace. Whole villages are razed to the ground.
Death of King Wulfhere of Norica at the age of fifty-three from a long drawn out illness. Wulfhere has left no legitimate children after him, although he was married to three women. However, the children he did have were bastards sired off slave girls. The Rigo-Thulis of Norica, Lord Vocionus moc Rennodotoros, in an effort to avoid civil conflict within the autonomous Sweboz Kingdom of Norica between the main Taurisci Arjos (nobles), offers the throne personally to King Brochvalos himself, on the condition that he allows the kingdom to retain its seperate autonomy, as well as the support of Vocionus as the perpetual regent of Norica. Brochvalos is happy to accept this condition, and visits Norica in state to accept the crown. The Thuliz Vocionus continues to govern the kingdom in Brochvalos' name.
King Lutarios II of Hayasdan arranges a political marriage between his son, Prince Bagradates, and a daughter of King Kuluk of Aursa (Aorsi/Alans), whom rules the former Megale Syrian satrapy on the northern coast of the Hyrcanian Sea. Some 3000 Aorsi horsemen accompany the princess, named Rauyana, to her wedding in Lutarkert.
King Timon I of Baktria organizes a military campaign against the Xiongnu, the enemies of his mother's people, the Tocharians. He leads an army of 79,000, including some 15,000 Tocharian client tribal warriors from the plains of Ariana. After leading them through the Hexi Corridor, Timon and his Bactro-Tocharian army captures the city of Euthydemopolis (OTL Jiuquan) in the early days of spring. The Han Empire becomes quickly embroiled in the conflict when Zhizhi Chanyu (Xiongnu emperor) requested aid from the Han Emperor Wudi. The Han forces, under the command of the Protector-General Chen Tang, secured the city of Liangzhou (modern Wuwei, Gansu). Timon and his forces successfully besiege the city of Dunhuang in the late summer, despite attempts by the Han to relieve their Xiongnu allies besieged in the city. By the end of the year, Ganzhou (Zhangye) remains as the main Xiongnu stronghold in the Hexi Corridor. Hundred of Tocharian soldiers in Baktrian service were posted in forts built in the passes of the Tian Shan mountains to keep sentinal on the movements of the Saka to the far north.
The Year 247 HSF/ 43 BCE.
Organizational reforms of Megale Syrian civil administration take place. Metropolitan regions, such as Antiocheia, Seleukeia, Damascus, Babylon, Ekbatana, Hekatompylos, Apameia, Persepolis, Susa, Charax and Edessa, all the major cities, are henceforth to be supervised on a local sub-satrapal level by an official called an Episkopos (Overseer). This is to decrease the civil authority of the Satraps.
King Timon I of Baktria leads his forces in breaching the defences of Ganzhou and sacks the oasis city. He then negotiates a peace treaty with the Han Empire. The Han would retain the city of Liangzhou and the surrounding Guanzhong region would remain unmolested by either Tocharian or Baktrian forces.
Death of Antipater ben Hanan, the chief minister of Antigonos II Mattathias. His sons, Phaesal and Herod, respectively the governors of Samaria and Galilee on behalf of King Antigonos Mattathias.
Carvilios of Avaricon, a high priest of Wodan-Lugos in the city of Avaricon and a renowned theologian, is credited with the authorship of the "Book of Aedhos", the legendary Aedui Druid whom served as an advisor to the first Sweboz Druhtinaz Hariowolafz. Aedhos is also considered by many as the true founder of the Ansuzlagam religion. He is said to have been buried in the woods outside the city of Autricon, where a shrine is dedicated to him in the sacred district of the city. The Ansutoni cleric Carvilios is already well acquainted to the reigning Druhtinaz Brochvalos.
The Year 248 HSF/ 42 BCE.
King Ozalces dies at the age of thirty-two. He was murdered by memebrs of his court, who saw him as too amenable to his Sunthwalhan allies. Without any clear successors, and none of his surviving children being older than ten years, factions from across the kingdom begin to compete violently for the kingship of Numidia. The Sunthwalhan Verrix Ermanar assembles a new army of 36,000 and appoints the Harjanaz Calgacos of Bascui to command them. The Aquita-Sunthwalhan force lands in Hippone in early spring and marches inland to Cirta. The capital is atken after two months. Further battles and skirmishes ensue between the different tribal chiefs and city-based princes and suffets. The cities of Carthage, Atiqa/Utica, Adrumeto and Thapsos assume virtual autonomy in the absence of central authority.
Death of Kings Lutarios II OF Hayasdan at the age of forty-three. He is succeeded by his seventeen year old son, Prince Bagradates.
The co-Basileus of Megale Syria, Perdiccas, persuades his father, Cassander II, to sanction a military campaign against Egypt, given the weak state of the government of King Aegogeos III. Aegogeos' indifference to his duties as Egypt's ruler has alienated him from his subordinates and his subjects. Perdiccas sails to Egypt at the head of an army of 89,000, most of whom were levied in Syria, Assyrie, Cilicia, Cyprus and Phoenicia. They land west of Alexandreia. The city is captured by mid-summer. Megale Syrian troops continue to rampage through Lower Egypt. The Pharoah Aegogeos III and his court flee to Memphis and fortify themselves there. Meanwhile, on the orders of Perdiccas, troops storm the Alexandreum sanctuary in the "Soma" district of Alexandreia to take the body of the city's founder, the legendary Megas Alexandros. Priests of the Alexandreum are pushed aside as Syrian soldiers drag the sarcophogus of the Conqueror of the World, which provokes a riot inthe Royal Quarter of Alexandreia. The riot is bloodily suppressed. The body of Alexander is then shipped to Antioch. Afterwards, the body is transported under heavy guard on the road to Seleukeia in Mesopotamia. The Megas Basileus Cassander eagerly pays his respects to the body of Alexander, before making arrangements for the construction of a new sanctuary home for The Body. Millions will flock to Seleukeia in many future pilgrimages for centuries to come. Perhaps forseeing the difficulties of maintaining military control over Egypt, Perdiccas wished to justify his position by carrying away Egypts most sacred relic. The Royal Library was raided as well during the Syrian occupation of Egypt.
King Toncommios of Trocmia, in response to the Megale Syrian invasion of Egypt, amasses an army of 65,000 and invades the Satrapy of Cilicia, capturing the cities of Pendosis, Adana, Zephyrion and Tarsos.
The Kingdom of Atropatene, a client-state of Megale Syria Empire in the southern Caucasus, chooses to align himself with the Hayasdani kingdom, adding strengh to the cause of King Bagradates. This would put the Armenians at odds with Megale Syria.
The Year 249 HSF/ 41 BCE.
The Druhtinaz Brochvalos calls for the First Council of Autricon (Chartres) to establish the official doctrine of the new Bitunemeton (World Temple), the first official governing body of the Ansuzlagam religion. Brochvalos wished to further solidify the spiritual primacy over the Ansuthuidi states of Sunthwalha (Iberia), Bonnlandam (Italy), Getiaheimat, Bastarnoheimat (Bastarnae homeland/Moldovia-western Ukraine), Cimbrolandam (Denmark), Teutalandam (north-western Poland) and the tribal kingdoms of Albaha (Britain). Another purpose was to create a formal administrative network for Swebaheimat, along with reconciling the urban-based priesthoods that Ansuzlagam was built on with the distinct communities of Druids and Gudjons that remained seperate from the Ansuzlagam hierarchy. These communities were refered to by many of the common pepole as the "Caddo" (the holy ones).
Death of the Gandharan King Zoilos III at the age of fifty-eight. He is succeeded by his seven year old grandson, Prince Pantaleon. The Chiliarchos Basilikon Euclideas of Nalanda acts as the regent of the young Pantaleon III.
After securing the conquest of Cilicia, Toncommios raises another 20,000 and sails for Egypt, landing close to Alexandreia. The ailing Megas Basileus Cassander II marshals another army of 90,000, recruited from the satrapies of Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Elymais, Media and Parthia, and sends them under the command of the Strategos Mopsos of Susa. When this army reached Cilicia, they were defeated by the 87,000 strong Trocmian force, commanded by Prince Bolgios of Sinope. The Trocmian forces in Egypt meanwhile captures the city of Alexandreia from the Syrians, under the command of Antimachos of Margiana, before linking up with their Aegogenid Egyptian allies, who were still holding the Nomes around Memphis. Perdiccas, who was leading his forces in the subjugation of Upper Egypt, withdrew to the coast of the Red Sea, taking ship to the Sinai Peninsula.
King Bagradates of Hayasdan cements an alliance with the Kingdom of Trocmia. King Toncommios is grateful with this alliance, given his conflict with the powerful Megale Syrians.
Megale Syrian forces, commanded by the Strategos Dionysos of Apameia, aided by the 9,000 strong force of ex-patriot Armenioi led by the warlord Zariadres, push into the south-west of Hayasdan, in the country of Sophene. The cities of Karkathiokerta and Amida are taken during the summer. The Megas Basileus Cassander II invests the Armenian general, Prince Zariadres, a purported descendent of the Orontid dynasty, as the new King of Sophene, making the conquered territory into a new client-kingdom of Megale Syria. Some 80,000 exiled Armenioi from Syria and Phoenicia are re-settled in Sophene.
The Year 250 HSF/ 40 BCE.
Phaesal, the Tetrarch of Samaria, with the permission of Cassander II, assembles a force 35,000, and travels by ship down the coast to land in the Sinai to aid his overlord, King Perdiccas. After joining forces with the Syrian army, they meet the Troco-Egyptian alliance at Mitla Pass. Phaesal of Samaria dies from a sword-thrust from a Trocmian officer during the heat of battle. Having lost the Battle of Mitla Pass to the Troco-Egyptians under the command of King Tincommios, the Syro-Samarian army retreat into southern Judea.
King Totilios of Helvetis-Bonnlandam forces the Numidian ruler of Qorsim and Sardin, the Prince Galussa, to cease his raids on Bonnai shipping in the Mediterranean after landing troops in Qorsim. Galussa becomes a vassal of Totilios.
King Timon I of Baktria organizes the new client-kingdom of Tocharia (Gansu), installing as its king his younger brother, the twenty-eight year old Prince Clearches. Further military campaigns would be made against the Xiongnu through the year to capture the cities of Aksu, Korla, Turpan, Khocho (Gaochang), Loulan, Shule (Kashgar) and Kuga. The newly annointed King Clearches I of Tocharia, an experienced and skilled general in his own right, would command the Hellenistic Tocharian forces against the western Xiongnu for much of his reign.
The Druhtinaz Brochvalos brutally suppresses an insurrection in the Belgae, Heruskoz (Cherusci) and Hattingaz (Chatti) regions, which were instigated by the "Caddo" (holy ones), the independently living communities of Druids and Gudjons whom remain seperate from the formal Ansuzlagam hierarchy in Sweboz society. With the endorsement of the Ansutonion priesthood, Brochvalos orders his soldiers to destroy the more troublesome communities. Some twenty-seven villages are recorded as being put to the sword by the Druhtine forces. It is also reported that the inhabitants were ritually killed in the "old way". One account reports that men, women and children are said to have been garroted and thrown into the marshes.
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The bedrock of the formal Bitunemeton organization would be the semi-hereditary caste of Gaulish Druids, mostly descended from the local Aedui and Carnute nobility, whom decided to join the Sweboz invaders in the mid-Third Century BCE ,ITTL. During the last two hundred years, they have steadily evolved their institutions, sent out colonies into newly conquered Sweboz provinces and into lands as far as Scandinavia, Britain, Italy and Spain. The Ansutonion, the professional priesthood of the Ansuzlagam religion, are now going to write about the central tenets of their faith. I have yet to write about the complexities within the theology of this ATL religion. So any advice would be welcome.
Thank you.
Lugus, or Lugh, has been syncretized with the Germanic God Wodan, due to shared, key qualities. Wodan was a particularly favoured God by the branch of the Sweboz/Suebi that took control in this TL. In the two hundred plus years since this occured, the God has increased in importance, becoming the head of the Sweboz pantheon. The Sweboz priesthood espouse a common religion of mingled gods and traditions, but the next part is to write sacred articles to define their central doctrine (their own equivelent bible) and the rise of the Bitunemeton (their own church).
The Sack of Markomannogert.
October 233 HSF.
After a month of siege, the sapping of the western wall of the city of Markomannogert, the capital of the Sweboz Kingdom of Marcomannoheimaz, had paid off. The stonework of the wall crumbled as the ground beneath collapsed in on itself. Within moments, the Gaizaz* of the Armorican infantry ran headlong into the breach. Spurred on by the captains, they crashed into the weary Markomannoz defenders, spearing them and hacking them to death. The rest of the city's defenders were not able to reinforce the sentries of the westward wall before up to four thousand men of the besieging army was brought to bear against them.
Having slaughtered the guards on the westward wall, the attackers of the Armorican-Arverni army spilled into the closed residential streets in an orgy of violence. Fresh troops on horseback followed in the wake of the destruction. Among the squadrons were the Royal Ambacti*, accompanying the person of whom his followers saw as the rightful Druhtinaz of the Sweboz. Brochvalos, a Prince of Armorica and son of the late King Chilperix, rode hard into the upper streets among the houses of the Arjos*. Ordering his men to dismount, Brochvalos then led his soldiers into smashing their way into the homes of the Markomannogert notables and began to brutally interrogate them into betraying their sovereign lord, the King Osbehrt. Osbehrt and his remaining troops were sealed off in their citadel at the city's northern wall. Brochvalos would find a willing traitor, a merchant-born man by the name of Sihwulfa. An erstwhile clerk in the Samanoz household whom has recently fallen foul of the king. Sihwulfa informed the Armorican Druhtinaz of a secret tunnel that ran beneath the highstreet from the Daurdanoch* to the city's southward wall. Brochvalos ordered his troops to the southward wall, under the direction of Sihwulfa, to locate the exit. Brochvalos would then go on to restore order among his army before they could kill anymore of the city's inhabitants.
In time, they spotted some armed retainers of the Samanoz Household guiding some servants out of the tunnel entrance that ran alongside a sewage canal. The Armorican soldiers charged at the would-be evacuees, cutting them down. The Samonoz were loading a number of strongboxes onto a train of rather common-looking wagons. The Armorican-Arverni squadron then went through the tunnel, eventually finding themselves within the lower cellers of the citadel-palace. By late evening, the group would manage to open the foregate of the citadel, allowing the army of King Brochvalos into the citadel. Osbehrt II and his family where found in the central feasting hall. Brochvalos entered the feasting hall, ordering Osbehrt and his retainers to lay down their arms so no harm would come to them. Osbehrt, fearing for his wife and children's safety, reluctantly accepted the offer of leniancy.
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Bellovesedunon (Fort Bellovesus), on the road six miles west of Bibracte.
234 HSF.
Four months later, Osbehrt was taken from his cell and brought to a courtyard behind the palace in Gergova. There, he saw his conqueror, King Brochvalos, five Ambacti, and his wife Fregga.
Brochvalos, resplendent in his purple robe with gold-threaded patterns of swans, gold neck-ring and red shoes topped with silver braiding, had his hand clamped over the shoulder of Fregga, whom in comparison was dressed in a grey, threadbare shrift and was barefoot, much like a slave woman. The guards, dressed in mail, with scarlet cloaks and gleaming bronze helmets, gazed impassively at the broken man who was brought out before them.
"I really thought that sparing your life that day was a wise decision, brother. But alas, you continue to abuse my charity my conspiring from that cosy little bedchamber."
Brochvalos started to snake his arm around Fregga's neck. Fregga was a beautiful young woman in her early twenty's with very blonde hair and innocent-looking green eyes. She was trembling slightly at the touch of Brochvalos. She gazed at her husband with a pleading look. Osbehrt swallowed hard.
"I don't know what you've been told, my lord. I cannot have been plotting against you. Your jailers would not talk to me. And the servants you provide me are forbidden to communicate with me."
Brochvalos shook his head with a sneering expression.
"Do you think that I know not of your freedman? Little Timeaos, whom told us everything as we peeled away the skin on his back and broke his fingers. Timeaos whom screamed for mercy as we poured salt on his raw skin."
Osbehrt's stolid look of nonchalance began to turn to one of alarm and dispair. Brochvalos began to chuckle as his hand reached under the tunic of Fregga, whose' eyes began to prick with tears.
"Your Timeaos shouted of all the names of the Samanoz and Markomannoz worthies that you were corresponded with from your prison. I've sent out orders for their arrests." Fregga yelped as Brochvalos started squeezing her hard.
With a vengeful roar, Osbehrt launched himself at Brochvalos, but was stopped in his tracks when he was punched in the face by one of the Ambacti. Two others pinioned Osbehrts arms behind his back as Fregga was crying helplessly. Brochvalos grabbed Fregga by her hair and slapped her hard across her face. Brochvalos then turned to face the Ambactos whom struck Osbehrt.
"Do it now," he ordered curtly. The ambactos then produced a cord from under his belt, swiftly looped it around Osbehrt's neck and tightened it hard. Brochvalos then led the sobbing Fregga out of the fort that served as her husband's prison these past months. As her husband was dying behind her, Brochvalos led Fregga to the entrance where he took her to his carriage, which was flanked by mounted guards. He forced her into the vehicle.
"Now, my sweet," he spoke to the crying Fregga, "let us discuss your future".
1*Spears
2*Bodyguards, retainers.
3*Nobility.
October 233 HSF.
After a month of siege, the sapping of the western wall of the city of Markomannogert, the capital of the Sweboz Kingdom of Marcomannoheimaz, had paid off. The stonework of the wall crumbled as the ground beneath collapsed in on itself. Within moments, the Gaizaz* of the Armorican infantry ran headlong into the breach. Spurred on by the captains, they crashed into the weary Markomannoz defenders, spearing them and hacking them to death. The rest of the city's defenders were not able to reinforce the sentries of the westward wall before up to four thousand men of the besieging army was brought to bear against them.
Having slaughtered the guards on the westward wall, the attackers of the Armorican-Arverni army spilled into the closed residential streets in an orgy of violence. Fresh troops on horseback followed in the wake of the destruction. Among the squadrons were the Royal Ambacti*, accompanying the person of whom his followers saw as the rightful Druhtinaz of the Sweboz. Brochvalos, a Prince of Armorica and son of the late King Chilperix, rode hard into the upper streets among the houses of the Arjos*. Ordering his men to dismount, Brochvalos then led his soldiers into smashing their way into the homes of the Markomannogert notables and began to brutally interrogate them into betraying their sovereign lord, the King Osbehrt. Osbehrt and his remaining troops were sealed off in their citadel at the city's northern wall. Brochvalos would find a willing traitor, a merchant-born man by the name of Sihwulfa. An erstwhile clerk in the Samanoz household whom has recently fallen foul of the king. Sihwulfa informed the Armorican Druhtinaz of a secret tunnel that ran beneath the highstreet from the Daurdanoch* to the city's southward wall. Brochvalos ordered his troops to the southward wall, under the direction of Sihwulfa, to locate the exit. Brochvalos would then go on to restore order among his army before they could kill anymore of the city's inhabitants.
In time, they spotted some armed retainers of the Samanoz Household guiding some servants out of the tunnel entrance that ran alongside a sewage canal. The Armorican soldiers charged at the would-be evacuees, cutting them down. The Samonoz were loading a number of strongboxes onto a train of rather common-looking wagons. The Armorican-Arverni squadron then went through the tunnel, eventually finding themselves within the lower cellers of the citadel-palace. By late evening, the group would manage to open the foregate of the citadel, allowing the army of King Brochvalos into the citadel. Osbehrt II and his family where found in the central feasting hall. Brochvalos entered the feasting hall, ordering Osbehrt and his retainers to lay down their arms so no harm would come to them. Osbehrt, fearing for his wife and children's safety, reluctantly accepted the offer of leniancy.
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Bellovesedunon (Fort Bellovesus), on the road six miles west of Bibracte.
234 HSF.
Four months later, Osbehrt was taken from his cell and brought to a courtyard behind the palace in Gergova. There, he saw his conqueror, King Brochvalos, five Ambacti, and his wife Fregga.
Brochvalos, resplendent in his purple robe with gold-threaded patterns of swans, gold neck-ring and red shoes topped with silver braiding, had his hand clamped over the shoulder of Fregga, whom in comparison was dressed in a grey, threadbare shrift and was barefoot, much like a slave woman. The guards, dressed in mail, with scarlet cloaks and gleaming bronze helmets, gazed impassively at the broken man who was brought out before them.
"I really thought that sparing your life that day was a wise decision, brother. But alas, you continue to abuse my charity my conspiring from that cosy little bedchamber."
Brochvalos started to snake his arm around Fregga's neck. Fregga was a beautiful young woman in her early twenty's with very blonde hair and innocent-looking green eyes. She was trembling slightly at the touch of Brochvalos. She gazed at her husband with a pleading look. Osbehrt swallowed hard.
"I don't know what you've been told, my lord. I cannot have been plotting against you. Your jailers would not talk to me. And the servants you provide me are forbidden to communicate with me."
Brochvalos shook his head with a sneering expression.
"Do you think that I know not of your freedman? Little Timeaos, whom told us everything as we peeled away the skin on his back and broke his fingers. Timeaos whom screamed for mercy as we poured salt on his raw skin."
Osbehrt's stolid look of nonchalance began to turn to one of alarm and dispair. Brochvalos began to chuckle as his hand reached under the tunic of Fregga, whose' eyes began to prick with tears.
"Your Timeaos shouted of all the names of the Samanoz and Markomannoz worthies that you were corresponded with from your prison. I've sent out orders for their arrests." Fregga yelped as Brochvalos started squeezing her hard.
With a vengeful roar, Osbehrt launched himself at Brochvalos, but was stopped in his tracks when he was punched in the face by one of the Ambacti. Two others pinioned Osbehrts arms behind his back as Fregga was crying helplessly. Brochvalos grabbed Fregga by her hair and slapped her hard across her face. Brochvalos then turned to face the Ambactos whom struck Osbehrt.
"Do it now," he ordered curtly. The ambactos then produced a cord from under his belt, swiftly looped it around Osbehrt's neck and tightened it hard. Brochvalos then led the sobbing Fregga out of the fort that served as her husband's prison these past months. As her husband was dying behind her, Brochvalos led Fregga to the entrance where he took her to his carriage, which was flanked by mounted guards. He forced her into the vehicle.
"Now, my sweet," he spoke to the crying Fregga, "let us discuss your future".
1*Spears
2*Bodyguards, retainers.
3*Nobility.
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An excellent timeline Lysandros! This addresses probably one of the most interesting ah questions there is (at least to me): WI A Barbarian State rose to become an Empire? This timeline deserves way more attention then what you've been receiving; I would've given up way back on page one or two, but you've kept going and created a monster of a timeline. Great work!
Thanks. Its hard to find time for an update these days.
Have you read the earlier pages, where TTL's Rome lost the First Punic War by default to the Carthaginians? This was due to invasions of the allied Suebi-Boii forces from the north. Several decades later, Rome and Carthage collaborate in invading the Sweboz Federation, which by than includes Gaul. Their armies were led jointly by Hannibal and Scipio. I guess when I first started this, I was very eager to eliminate Rome from the picture.