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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 an Acronian counter-attack on the city of Bana is repelled. The war ends with the status quo ante bellum. The war took place from 1617 to 1618. Total casualties are estimated at between 2,000 and 4,000.
==Second War==
The Tavari Navy sinks a Banian merchant ship, believing it to be a Banian warship. Naval battles occur for several weeks, but Tavaris eventually agrees to compensate the families of the victims and the war stops. The war took place from May to October of 1624. The official count of total casualties is 1,603.
==Third War==
A plague breaks out in Bana in 1645. A rumor breaks out that it was brought to the country by Tavari spies, as there had been an outbreak of disease in eastern Tavaris in 1641. Believing the rumors to be true, Bana launches an invasion of King’s Island in 1645. Bana initially seizes the eastern half of the island and holds off three waves of Tavari attempts to reclaim it. However, Banian attacks on East Harbor are rebuffed, and eventually a Tavari naval blockade prevents resupply to the Banians on King’s Island long enough for them to surrender in 1651. Later historical research indicates that the plagues in Bana and Tavaris were the same disease, but allegations of intentional spread by Tavari agents remain unproven. Excluding deaths from the plague in Bana, estimates of total casualties range from 300,000 to 600,000.
==Fourth War==
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Citing a national emergency, the Queen of Tavaris imposes a “national impressment” in which every able-bodied adult is conscripted into the military. Tavari forces cede on the southern front to Ni-Rao, Acronis focuses on defending Avnatra primarily, and secondarily its largest cities in the colony. Tavaris has an advantage in ship-building capacity and is able to bolster its troops in the colony gradually. It also had a significant edge in weapons manufacturing, whereas Bana had since gone into debt to fund the war.
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.
==Fifth War==
In 1711, Bana declares bankruptcy due to Tavari war debt and ceases payment. However, the Tavari economy is also weak, as the bubble made by the massive economic effort for the Fourth War (and its own war debt) had since collapsed. Tavaris begins to seize Banian vessels to use their cargo as payment. This enrages the Banian population. Tensions break out into war in 1712. The war is slow and primarily naval, as both countries struggle to afford the war. Eventually, Tavaris agrees to waive the rest of the war debt in exchange for a one-time Banian payment of 100,000 našdat (approx. 12.1 million SHD today), and the war ends in 1714. The official count of total casualties is 2,414.
==The “Sunshine Years”==
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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 [[Vultuca]], which was largely wilderness and dense jungle. In 1908, Morst ships launched an attack on Asendavian ships after circling behind them through Tavari-controlled waters. While Tavaris issued a formal statement of warning to Morstaybishlia regarding the incident, the Asendavians held this as a Tavari renunciation of neutrality and declared war on Tavaris in 1908. This brought Acronis into the war on the side of Morstopackia.
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. The Tavaris-Bana theater of the war is commonly described as "the Sixth Tavari-Banian War." Deaths in the Tavaris-Bana theater specifically are estimated at between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
==Banian Civil War==
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