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In 1150, a greater rebellion occurred across the entire Ethalried Empire. In 1152, the King was overthrown, executed, and replaced with a Queen. This marked the beginning of the [[Ethalria|Grand Matriarchy of Ethalria]]. This rebellion initially weakened the authority of the government in all areas across the country, and cost Ethalria influence both in northern Aurora and southern Aurora. Ethalria could not afford the military and economic resources to prevent South Ethalria from pulling away. A South Ethalrian armed rebellion led to Ethalria abandoning the area in 1158, declaring it "outside [their] protection" and "open for the wolves to feast upon." For a short time there existed a Kingdom of South Ethalria with a base of power in what is now Valladia, but by 1200 it had already dissolved into various competing princedoms and city-states.
The Kingdom of [[Valeria]] would move in to the area very quickly after the Ethalrians left. Some South Ethalrian princedoms would voluntarily join the Kingdom or become vassal states, while others were conquered in a Valerian military campaign in 1200. Meanwhile,
In the 18th century, desire among South Ethalrians for unity among themselves and independence from others began to crystallize.
[[File:Listed neoclassical house, 7 Becsi Kapu Square, 2017 Varnegyed.jpg|left|thumb|300px|The "Yellow House," also known as "the Palace of Zalica," where the League of South Ethalrians met in Zalica, now the City of Asilica.]]
Very quickly, it became the predominant political idea among the elite in the Principality of South Ethalria to unite all the South Ethalrian states. In this period, a nationalist idea arose among South Ethalrians, defining themselves as a unique culture and people that deserved a single state. A society known as the League of South Ethalrians was formed in Zalica, whose members formed a political ideology centered around the idea that the South Ethalrians had been disregarded and treated as just more people to conquer by the other world powers. They were driven to create a truly independent home for South Ethalrians, which they referred to by the Sudethalnische word for "home, refuge, or asylum," ''Asil''. It became fashionable to refer to the Principality of South Ethalria as ''Asilica'', which was meant to be a poetic name based on the word ''asil'' and partially inspired by the name of the capital, Zalica.
The League of South Ethalrians gradually became the leading political forum in the region, and given the wealth of the Zalican-led Principality of South Ethalria - which only increased as time went on - other South Ethalrian states began to join the Principality. There were several holdouts, and the political system of the Principality became a controversial issue. After centuries of independence, many of the states had formed their own distinct methods of government, and many of them refused to return to monarchy under the Prince of South Ethalria. However, at the end of the 18th century, the [[Posolic Wars]] broke out between Morstaybishlia and Ethalria. The threat of violence from all sides around South Ethalria increased nationalist sentiment as well as the idea that the city-states needed to band together for their own safety. In 1800, an agreement was negotiated between every South Ethalrian city state and Morstaybishlia - the first time all South Ethalrian states had united in a single diplomatic effort - allowed Morstaybishlian troops to move through South Ethalrian lands and waters in exchange for Morstaybishlia agreeing to support South Ethalrian independence
Over the course of several more rounds of negotiations between the various states called the Councils of Zalica, held between 1800 and 1803, a treaty was negotiated that would admit the remaining South Ethalrian states to the Principality of South Ethalria, and then change the Principality to a Republic under the name Asilica. The treaty was signed by all parties in 1803, but would not become effective unless ratified by the population in a referendum. Notably for the era,
Later in 1804, a Constitutional Convention replaced the Treaty of Zalica with the Constitution of the Republic of Asilica, which declared that the former states had ceased to be independent and had all been subsumed and replaced with the Republic. However, the borders of the former states were preserved as cantons, the first-level division of the country. The 20 cantons that existed in 1804 still exist today, however in 1978, the government separated the cities of Asilica and Sugen from their cantons and made them "canton-level municipalities" with the same status and authority under the law as cantons. The Constitution of 1804 also renamed the City of Zalica to "the City of Asilica" and the language Sudethalnische to ''Asilican''.
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