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Shakar contains the Packilvanian Cold Desert and a third of the Packilvanian Hot Desert, the former being one of the largest in the world. As a result, Shakar is the hottest and coldest place in the country. Shakar has an incredibly long geological history. It has the highest amount of fossilized dinosaur finds in the country. According to archeologists, it was once an inland sea then a lush rainforest. During the periods of Ice Ages and its movement northward, it desertified. Thus, the province relies on water from aquafirs that was captured during this period underground that rises in the form of oases.
== History ==
The province is believed to have once been list when Yasteria was fused with Borea and Itur. Due to massive changes to the climate and several mass extinctions, most of ira biodiversity has been destroyed. Nevertheless, it has one of the largest abundance of dinosaur and other fossils in the fossil record with archaeological tourism being one of the largest non-fossil fuel industries in the area.
For the overwhelming majority of its history, it has been inhabited by nomadic hunter gatherers. It has the last area of prehistoric Packilvania to transition to sedentary settlements and agriculture. Given the high number of people who rely on nomadic pastoralism, historians have argued that the transition is not yet complete. It was among the last to break out of the stone age.
The province's Tumarid Highlands were the site of a civilisation known as the Tumarid civilisation which spanned over 3,000 years and ended around 300 CE. There are many ruins of pyramids made of stone. These large structures were burial mounds for their ancient rulers and they are believed to have practiced a polytheistic religion which include sentient sacrifice. Their rulers, known in modern [[Packilvanian]] as ''muFareeh'' were treated as deities on Urth. Their history is divided into 6 dynasties.
Most notably is the Shulamid dynasty which is believed in Packilvanian mythology to have kept the Yehudan people as slaves for over a 100 years before they were liberated by an Esma of Noi and led to Ashura where they founded the Kingdom of Yehudah which evolved to the Kingdom of Bakil from which the [[Iktanite dynasty]] originated. While the mass migration of people from the Tumarid civilisation during the reign of the Shulamid dynasty is known, it is unclear whether the Yehudan epithet applied to an ethno-religious group or all migrants who fled the historically known bronze age collapse that marked its end.
Shakar remained inhabited by nomads and small city states in the Southern Oasis Belt and the Tumarid Highlands. The Rabadim civilisation emerged for a brief period as people began to settle the Shakar Mountain valleys. That civilisations collapsed due to disease and drought however they left behind massive stone carved structures in the mountains caves. Their advanced masonry seems to have been known by the Kingdom of Bakil, suggesting that their collapse was around 600 CE.
The area was never formally invaded by the Iktanite dynasty in 675. In the 13th century, the province was incorporated into Packilvania and used as a staging ground for invasions into [[Musetszna]]. At the collapse of the Iktanite dynasty, most of nomadic tribes remained the same while the Principalities of Sharkol, Seerahel and Lehasa became dominant in their regions. They were overcome and conquered by the [[Zubraynite dynasty]] which led incursions into Musetszna from there. It took until the 17th century for the Demirite dynasty to assert control over the Province. During the Packilvanian Civil War in the 1970s, Shakar served as the base of the [[Carriers of Mercy]] and was the seat of their Provisional Government which gained international recognition as the government of Packilvania in the late 1970s with their base in Lehasa.
== Geography, climate and biodiversity ==
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