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'''Arlavia''' (Arlavian: ''Arzìlóro'')'','' officially entitled the '''Confederated Tzitade of Arlavia''', is a country in the west of [[Novaris]]. It shares a substantive land border with [[Celanora]] to the south, as well as an eastern maritime border with [[Transnalpia]]. While the nation has no official capital, a majority of governmental institutions are headquartered in Città del Arzìlóro, its largest city.
While historic civilizations have inhabited Arlavia since the Bronze Age in Novaris, much of the history of Arlavia is limited to its interactions with the Celanor Empire. This is primarily due to the unavailability of Arlavian writings due both to a strong oral tradition and the inability of contemporary philologists to decipher the ancient Arlavic script. While such factors therefore make written records from the region's population difficult, Arlavian societies were notable in conveying information and historic events through the medium of images and symbols carved into stones, which were later worn around the neck or across the shoulder on a leather strap. These stones, known as ''Pietre di Maudt'' or ''Ilyámen'' provide examples of the use of chariots pulled by a form of [[W:Equidae|Equidae]] theorized to have later been driven to extinction through incursions by the Celanor Empire and a series of diseases which led to the culling and burning of a significant portion of its population.
Under the Celanor Empire, Arlavia, named by the Norvians after the residing Írlāvé people, grew as a region economically important yet culturally distinct region. The Arlavian language, after adopting the Norvian script and developing closer ties to the language of its overlords, was still primarily used as the ''lingua franca'' of the territory, with local dialects of Norvian adopting some features of the language in order to better communicate with the population - later leading to the modern formation of Arlavian as a relative of Norvian used by the majority of people in the country.
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