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Bana would control Metrati Anar for eleven years, during which time it considered the chain a nominal "nation" on equal footing with [[Federation of Bana#Okunbana|Okunbana]] and [[Federation of Bana#Mikubana|Mikubana]]. (In reality, it was effectively a military government under the direct control of the Union government in Lanu.) Banian occupation of the islands was never popular with the inhabitants, who numbered approximately 500,000 at the time. In 1911, a general strike by the Akronist inhabitants of the island brought the economy—and oil production—to a halt, leading Bana to have to bring in more military forces to conduct oil drilling and pumping themselves. The expense of maintaining the islands meant that Bana essentially could not deploy its forces anywhere else in the war, though a token force of one thousand soldiers was dispatched to [[Vaklori]] to be placed under Asendavian command.
Bana's primary victory in holding the islands was in forcing Tavaris out of the Northern Four and effectively ending Tavari political influence over the adjacent Kingdom of [[Ekvatora|Mulnika-Nykunia]], an
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The Northern Four were among the most populated of the islands in Metrati Anar, but over the course of the 19th century the population of Tavari settlers had gradually decreased. By the time of the Great War, Pivnich people, primarily [[species|dwarves]], were the majority of the population in the Northern Four and pressure from Pivnich residents for independence was already rising. When Bana assumed control of Metrati Anar, the government in Lanu had little interest in getting involved in the conflict. When Ekvatora was formed in 1915, Banian forces withdrew from the northern four entirely.
The Tavari campaign to retake Metrati Anar reached its peak between 1915 and 1919 in a grueling island-hopping war that led to significant casualties on both sides. While there were no Banian forces in the Northern Four, forces of both Ekvatora and the Voraki Free State resisted Tavari efforts to retake the islands. From its inception, Ekvatora claimed the Northern Four as integral parts of its territory. In general, the Tavari campaign moved from south to north, with major urban area Anarís their primary focus. By the time Tavaris was able to devote the bulk of its attention to the Northern Four, it had already exhausted a significant amount of resources. Any gains made by Tavaris were quickly reversed, and when Bana agreed to surrender in 1919, Tavaris chose to sign a cease-fire with Ekvatora and accept that
While Tavari claims on the Northern Four were primarily only "on paper," in the 1960s, tensions over the islands resumed after the Ekvatori Revolutionary War—from 1959 to 1962—led to the Kingdom of Ekvatora being overthrown by the Socialist Federal Republic of Ekvatora. In 1962, the Tavari government announced that it would not recognize the Socialist Federal Republic—and that it was not a party to the 1919 ceasefire, and, as such, the Tavari held it did not have a valid claim on the Northern Four. Then-Tavari Prime Minister Devri Nacandar Aštoni, of the Democratic National Party, was known to be the leader of the more nationalist, right-wing faction of the party. In 1962, the Royal Tavari Navy blockaded the Northern Four, an act that Ekvatora decried as an act of war. While there was no formal declaration of war between the two parties, a handful of skirmishes between
In August of 2020, as part of the Tavari application to the [[League of Novaris]], Prime Minister [[Shano Tuvria]] announced that Tavaris formally rescinded its claim to the Northern Four and recognized Ekvatora as the legitimate owner of the islands. While this was believed to be an overture on the part of the Tavari to encourage the Novaran Council to vote in favor of their request for full membership instead of associated state status, Ekvatora joined all but two Council members in voting against the application.
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