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The '''Imperial Kingdom of Great Morstaybishlia''', commonly known as '''Great Morstaybishlia''' (officially '''
Great Morstaybishlia is a [[wikipedia:Constitutional monarchy|constitutional monarchy]] with a two-House parliament system. The current monarch is [[Lambertus VII]], who has reigned since 1991 and the heir apparent is [[Princess Rosamund|Rosamund]]. The capital is [[Sani Bursil]], a [[wikipedia:global city|global city]] and [[wikipedia:financial centre|financial centre]] with an urban area population of 50 million in 2019, the largest in Aurora, largest in the [[United Nations of the Auroran Continent]] and largest in [[Urth]]. Other major urban areas in Great Morstaybishlia include [[Damezkador]], Kirdintayos, Lamburtupol, Valeron, Redrugus, [[Fort Jubrayn]], Imbazdu, Fort Vitaryn and Kasidura. The nearby [[Frorkstolm]] and [[Necraties Islands]] are not part of Great Morstaybishlia, being Crown dependencies with the government responsible for defence and international representation.
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[[File:Neolithic megalith in Horkalo.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Grengan dolmen, a neolithic megalith 3.8 miles from Horilan, Horkalo Province.]] ''Main articles: [[Staynes#History|History of Staynes]], [[Kaltarus#History|History of Kaltarus]], [[Valeria#History|History of Valeria]], [[Justelvard#History|History of Justelvard]]''
The earliest traces of [[wikipedia:Homo|human life]] in what is now any part of Aurora began in what today consists of areas in Staynes and Kaltarus approximately 1.7 million years ago. During this period, the Strathepolic Ridge connected the continents of [[Aurora]] to [[
After strong demographic and agricultural development between the 5th and 4th millennia BCE, metallurgy appeared at the end of the 4th millennium, initially working gold, copper and [[wikipedia:Bronze|bronze]], and later iron. Morstaybishlia has numerous [[wikipedia:megalith|megalithic]] sites from the Neolithic period. The Strathepolic culture would refine itself in the 3rd millennium BCE. Culutral groups across Morstaybishlia existed, separated into three distinct groups; the Stanks, the Kalts and the Vals. The Krösnauen conquest into what is now Valeria in 109 CE saw the Krösnauen Empire annex all of the land south of the [[Zycannes]] in one fell swoop, and then in 159 CE led an series of campaigns above the Zycannes into the Kingdoms of Kostaen, the Kingdom of Hortaen and the Kingdom of Burtael which made up modern Staynes. The Stayn people, the collective ethnicity of the three kingdoms, fought with determination and resilience, but faced a superior, professional army, and it is likely that between 400,000 and 650,000 may have perished in the conquest period.
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Many species endemic to the Necratie Isles were pushed to extinction from the arrival of people and pests. [[wikipedia:Stilt-owl|Gold-tipped owls]] were a species of owl that was hunted for their feathers and rendered extinct in the wild in the latter of the 18th century. Despite persistent attempts to re-introduce the captive populations into the wild, the species was declared fully extinct in 1974.
The Necraties, Frorkstolm, the [[Morstaybishlian West Pacific Territories]] and in particular the Arcturian Territories saw a spur of piracy in the mid to late 16th to mid 19th centuries. Rebels and pirates saw these trading outposts and islands as perfect hiding places in the war against piracy, as well as perfect areas to manoeuvre the pirating business to its greatest heights between 1660 and 1730. Pirates were a common pest in the several bodies of water until the [[Imperial Navy]] killed the last of seven Pirate Captain in the Battle of Valna Bay in 1821. Continuous efforts by the navies of the southern
=====Morsto-Justelvardic War=====
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During the First Posolic War (1795-1810), Morstaybishlia's eastern border reclined drastically as a coalition between [[Ethalria (Grand Matriarchy)|Ethalria]] and [[Baykalia]] defeated Morstaybishlia in two big battles; at Fort Nocturnia and Lambertupol. Morstaybishlia reclined back to near-similar borders before the Seven Years' War, behind the Ider River. When the Treaty of Cavenhelm was formed in 1796, Morstaybishlia was forced to give up Aurus and Forchemech, which saw a long evacuation of over twenty thousand troops.
Bittered by its defeat, Morstaybishlia's congregated its army from across the empire, including from the Kormistazic principality and from nearby colonies. Reconstruction of its fleet did not reach Ethalrian or Baykalian intelligence, and war was declared again when Morstaybishlia retook Lambertupol, which established a corridor on the eastern bank of the river. Preventing Ethalrian access to the northern seas was so important to Morstaybishlia because it would keep them as the hegemonic power in the region; that Viceroys from the western Auroran, Arcturian and
Meanwhile, Ethalria expanded the independent Kormistazic regions, landing forces there and also in southern Staynes (today Valeria), aiming to cut off Morstaybishlia's strangehold on southwestern Aurora. Morstaybishlia was now unable to travel through the Kormistazic principality because a fleet of mainly Ethalrian warships stunned them at the Battle of Montinay in the same year. Since Ethalria had preempted Morstaybishlian movements across the Zycannes, their forces had to take harsher undefended passageways such as Dragon's End and across the West Coddles. A winter in 1798 was the coldest recorded in over fifty years, bringing below freezing temperatures into the continental centre, including over the Zycannes where the forces were passing through. Straddled down in valley settlements, including Birchlea and Emptingdale, food and wood supplies were occasionally intercepted by Ethalria, which killed a large portion of the force to starvation and the elements. Ethalria made enormous territorial gains after two long years of sieges to Morstaybishlian cities in southern Staynes, who surrendered because they ran out of supplies.
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With almost a thousand species, of which roughly ⅔ are endemic to the region, the Zycannes are the most important region in the world for amphibians. The diversity of animals in the Zycannes is high, with almost 650 species of mammals (15 percent endemic), more than 1,800 species of bird (about 30 percent endemic), more than 650 species of reptiles (about 48 percent endemic) and 420 species of fish (around 35 percent endemic).
The [[Wikipedia:Vicuña|Zycuna]] can be found living in the Zycannes plateau, the widest part of the mountain range and are similar to camelids in
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Great Morstaybishlia's de facto official language is Staynish and Kalt. As a first language, it is estimated that 90.7 percent of the MBE's population speak Staynish, whilst 3.5 percent speak Ethalrian, 3 percent speak Kalt, 0.7 percent speaks Horkalic, 0.7 percent speaks Salovian, 0.3 percent speak Axdelian and 1.1 percent speak other languages as a first language.
4 percent of the population are estimated to speak languages brought to the MBE as a result of relatively recent immigration. Cerenerian and Yasterian languages, including [[Packilvania|Packilvanian]]
There are two recognized regional languages spoken across Great Morstaybishlia: Horkalic and Justelvardic. They are recognized as regional or minority languages, by the United Nations of the Auroran Continent, under the Auroran Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. As it is a UNAC member state, this therefore obliges the Great Morstaybishlian government to provide them specific measures of protection and promotion.
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Images of musical instruments begin to appear in Valerian artifacts in 3500 BC or earlier. Beginning around 3000 BC, Valerian (elven) culture began delineating two distinct classes of musical instruments due to division of labour and the evolving class system. Popular instruments, simple and playable by anyone, evolved differently from professional instruments whose development focused on effectiveness and skill. Only few examples from these time periods have been recovered. Even the process of assigning names to these instruments is challenging since there is no clear distinction among various instruments and the words used to describe them. Although Valerian artists mainly depicted ceremonial instruments, historians have distinguished that wind-based and string-based instruments were prominent in earlier Valerian society, creating [[Wikipedia:African harp|bow harps]], [[Wikipedia:Harps|harps]] and [[Wikipedia:Lyres|lyres]], as well as [[Wikipedia:Paleolithic flutes|bone flutes]].
During the period of time loosely referred to as the Middle Ages, Staynes and Kaltarus developed their own traditions of integrating musical influence from other regions. The first record of this type of influence is in 401 CE, when Staynes (then the second Maltervenian Empire) established an orchestra in its royal court after a conquest in the Kingdom of Corstania. Influences from other Auroran cultures, as well as
[[File:ISFJ - 1.JPG|left|thumb|200px|The [[Wikipedia:Slide trumpet|slide trumpet]] was invented in 18th century Staynes.]]
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Each of the four countries of Great Morstaybishlia has its own diverse and distinctive [[Wikipedia:Folk music|folk music]] forms. Folk music has existed here since antiquity, and flourished until the era of industrialisation when it began to be replaced by new forms of popular music, including [[Wikipedia:Music hall|music hall]] and [[Wikipedia:Brass band|brass bands]]. Realisation of this led to academics and amateur scholars taking note of the musical traditions being lost, and over three waves, one in the late-19th century, one in the mid-20th century and one at the start of the 21st century; initiated various efforts to preserve the music of the people. The most notable effort involved was the collection of the texts of over three hundred [[Wikipedia:Ballads|ballads]] in the Staynish and Kalt traditions, by Alemin Thompson-Fisher (called the Thompson-Fisher Ballads), some of which predate the 15th century. Valerian folklore, which had been a lifeline to their pre-Morstaybishlian kingdom before the 13th century, was widely lost in the industrial revolution, though scholars and amateur scholars preserved many of the vanishing ballads and folk dance songs. Valerian folklore has a revivalist movement which began in the mid 20th century. Overall, folk music as an important sub-culture within Morstaybishlian society.
Forms of popular music, including folk music, [[Wikipedia:Jazz|jazz]], [[Wikipedia:Rapping|rapping]]/[[Wikipedia:Hip hop music|hip hop]], [[Wikipedia:Pop music|pop]] and [[Wikipedia:Rock music|rock music]], have particularly flourished in Great Morstaybishlia since the twentieth century. Morstaybishlia has had a large influence on popular music due to its size, and due to its linguistic and cultural links with many countries, particularly [[Peregrinia]] and [[Emberwood Coast]] and many of its former colonies, and its capacity for invention, innovation and fusion, which has led to the development of, or participation in, many of the major trends in popular music. In the early-20th century, influences from
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