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==First Tavari-Banian War==
In response to threatening actions by Tavari naval vessels to Banian merchant ships moving through the area, [[Federation of Bana|Bana]] launches an effort to take Metrati Anar. Their effort fails, but
==Second War==
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In 1668, Tavaris establishes a colony on the Gondwanan mainland, Emerald Coast, in areas that had once been part of Ni-Rao but had since been abandoned. The territory, while on the other side of the mountains, is immediately to the south of Bana (as New Rania had not yet been founded.) Bana sees this as an escalation and launches an attack on the colony in 1670. The Fourth War is fought primarily in the colony. In 1676, Ni-Rao joins the war on the side of the Banians. While Tavari forces fight two fronts, the Banians burn East Harbor to the ground on Avnatra in 1677.
Citing a national emergency, the Queen of Tavaris imposes a “national impressment” in which every able-bodied adult is conscripted into the military.
In 1680, the Banians are expelled from Avnatra. Free to focus on the colony, Tavaris ramps-up troops in the area to push back Ni-Rao. Ni-Rao, technologically outmatched now that they face the full force of Tavaris, immediately agrees to restore the status quo ante bellum. The Tavari begin to attack the Banian-held areas in the Emerald Coast and push them out as well. In 1683, Tavaris launches an assault on the city of Bana. Bana’s defenses fail and, faced with the now-massive Tavari war effort focused entirely on their territory, Bana surrenders and agrees to pay war reparations to Tavaris. Between 1.5 million and 3 million people in total died, making it by far the deadliest standalone conflict between Tavaris and Bana.
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==The Great War==
Tavaris declared neutrality in the [[Great War]] when it began in 1904. However, Tavaris had long maintained a closer relationship with the [[Great Morstaybishlia|Morst]] than with [[Asendavia]], as it was easier to trade across water with Morst colony [[Lunaria]] than it was across the land border with Asendavian territory [[
In contrast to Tavaris, Bana had enjoyed a somewhat warmer relationship with Asendavia. The nationalist government decides to support the Asendavians in the war and join a month later. However, Banian participation in the war was largely limited to bombing campaigns along the east of Tavaris and the seizure of Metrati Anar, with almost no Banian troops serving outside that theater. Bana seized Metrati Anar in 1908 and held it until 1919, nearly two years after the war's end most places in the world. In 1915, [[Ekvatora]] declared independence and laid claim to the [[Metrati Anar#Northern Four|Northern Four]] islands of Metrati Anar, joining the war in opposing Tavaris. Bana had no interest in involving itself with the Ekvatoran conflict and withdrew from the Northern Four. The Tavaris-Bana/Ekvatora theater of the war is commonly described as "[[Metrati War]]" and sometimes as "the Sixth Tavari-Banian War."
==Banian Civil War==
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In 1969, there is a diplomatic dispute over Tavari military flights near Banian airspace. Bana would later pass a law forbidding Tavari military and civil aircraft from coming within one-quarter of a nautical mile of the Banian border, to be enforced by military action. Tavaris refuses to comply, saying Bana does not have the authority to police airspace that is international territory. Bana backs down from using military force to police the law, but terminates formal relations in 1970. There is little diplomatic communication between the two countries until 2012, when the countries decide to establish "informal formal" back-channels of communication through the [[Asilica|Asilican]] embassies in each country.
Later in 2020, Bana joins the [[Alliance of Northwest Gondwana]] and re-establishes formal relations with
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