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'''Tretrid''' ([[w:Old English|Tretridian]]: ᚦᚱᛖᚾᚪ, ''Þrena''), officially known as the '''Kingdom of Tretrid''', is a nation located in southern [[Novaris]]. It is the second most populous country in Novaris and the third largest by area. It is situated between the Atlantian Sea to the north, the Bay of Lapinum to the south, and the Nalpian Mountains to the west. Tretrid borders [[
Tretrid's history dates back to the Threnan Kingdom of antiquity, which lasted roughly from the 1st century BCE to the Toré Eruption of 512, after which resulting famine tore the polity apart, leading to its utter collapse and much of its territory fragmenting into smaller, more isolated city-states. The following centuries were characterized by infighting among these city-states, as well as the rise and fall of Westrice, which was situated north of formerly Threnan lands.
The arrival of Ulvrikian settlers from the east in the 11th century lead to a chain of mass migration and ensuing turmoil, followed by the rapid consolidation of Tretrid into three kingdoms, a state that would last for about 200 years until Ælfric I unified the peninsula and proclaimed the creation of the Kingdom of Tretrid in 1256. Over the next two centuries, Tretrid would expand into
Tretrid has historically been one of the premier powers of Novaris, which would often brought it into conflict with other nations. Indeed, the first 4 centuries of the unified Tretrid's history was largely characterized by its power struggles with
Despite its many issues and what has been argued to be its decline, Tretrid is still generally considered a [[w:great power|great power]]. Indeed, even though Tretrid has only the third highest military expenditure in Novaris, Tretrid more than makes up for it with soft power; indeed, its admission to the [[North Concordian Economic Forum]] and its role in creating the [[League of Novaris]] have only served to amplify this. Tretrid also largely maintains its position of power through alliances, most notably the [[Tolinsk Accords]], though Tretrid also maintains observer status in the [[NSTO|North Shield Treaty Organization]] and [[IRSA|Interregional Security Accords]]. Tretrid's system of alliances has been argued to be the main reason why Tretrid still remains the dominant power in West Novaris, especially compared to the significantly more diplomatically isolated Volscina.
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The Triarchy would meet its end when Ælfric I of Norþrena conquered the other two kingdoms and unified them into one country.
The newly-unified Tretrid had a significant amount of power, and so Tretrid clashed with
The advent of gunpowder and firearms tipped the balance in favor of Tretrid, leading to Tretrid seizing all
Tretrid was largely the dominant power of Novaris from the 15th century to the 17th century, and it largely interfered with the affairs of its neighbors in that period, including, most infamously, the [[War of Seven Emperors]], where Tretridian West Novaris annexed a significant amount of territory from Volscina, while the King of Tretrid also won the throne of [[Kingdom of Seccera|Seccera]].
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Eadgyð I would spend the next twenty years after the war reconquering the breakaway states and reestablishing Tretridian authority, as well as [[Tretridio-Secceran War|invading Seccera]] to claim the Secceran throne. This period, which lasted from 1650 to 1680, has been named the Tretridian Anarchy by historians.
Most of Tretridian West Novaris had been lost in the war, as the collapse of authority in Cynebury caused no amount of troubles for the colonies.
===Asatruar Wars of Religion===
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The creation of the Charter proved fatal to the Eorlist faction as it existed throughout the 18th century, as their support for the rather unpopular traditional landed nobility of Tretrid lead to many Eorlists to be voted out in the newly instated elections, while Cynists would be elected in waves due to public enthusiasm for the monarchy as a result of the democratization of Tretrid. While the Cynist faction briefly enjoyed total control of the Witan, however, they ended up splintering from infighting on the subject of possible reforms into the Liberal Party (later the Liberal Democratic Party) and the Conservative Party by the 1816 elections. The Eorlist faction's last seats in the Folkmoot were lost in 1824, though they would continue to have members in the Athelmoot for decades afterwards.
Now with a workable domestic power base, Eadgyð II was able to turn to matters of foreign policy
Tretridian foreign policy was put to the test when a revanchist Celanora attacked Seccera with the objective of reclaiming Celan in 1842, starting the [[Volscine-Celanoran War]]. Since Seccera was part of Volscina, Volscina was obligated to defend Seccera, and Tretrid also declared war on Celanora due to dynastic ties between Seccera and Tretrid. The war ended decisively against Celanora, and they were forced to give concessions to Seccera and Tretrid as well as pay war reparations to its enemies. The Celanoran concession to Tretrid would be organized as [[Transnalpia]].
However, this
After much deliberation, the Diet eventually ruled in favor of Arlenboro. However, tensions within Seccera over the sucession dispute broke out in civil war, which eventually lead to a full conflict between Volscina and Tretrid in the form of the [[Schlesian Crown War|Secceran Crown War]]. Tretrid waged an ultimately unsuccessful campaign to install its candidate for the Secceran throne by force. Though the war only lasted for a few years, it would permanently sour Tretridian-Volscine relations.
Its foothold in Seccera lost, Tretrid was faced with the fact that it had largely lost its foothold in West Novaris. As a response, the Tretridian navy's expansion was accelerated to improve Tretrid's force-projection capabilities. this put Lapinumbia on edge, causing a naval arms race in South Novaris. Furthermore, Tretrid sponsored the connection of the Transnalpian tunnel to better connect Transnalpia to Tretrid, before integrating Transnalpia as a Tretridian province. This in turn better allowed Tretrid to use Transnalpia as a staging point for further Tretridian engagement in West Novaran affairs.
[[File:Naval Battle of Abtao (1866).jpg|200px|thumb|Tretridian ships engaging a Lapinumbian fleet]]
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Tretridian entry into the Great War left a lasting impact on Tretridian politics, as the Conservative Party, in power at the time, supported the war. The Social Democratic Party, already mired in infighting, fully splintered into the more moderate ÞSD (M) and the more radical ÞSD (W).
Tretrid committed a few troops in Northern Gondwana; however, most of its operations occured in Novaris itself, as Tretrid and Volscina fought in their first and only total war. For most of the war, the fighting got bogged down into trench warfare along the front between
Tretrid would come out of the war with no gains to show for the losses it incurred for the 10 years it had been at war, at the cost of a very large chunk of its military-age population. In its later years, the war had become extremely unpopular, but efforts made by the Witan to withdraw from the war were shot down by Ælfric II.
===Decolonization===
The Great War caused a great deal of unrest in Tretrid, to the point that Tretrid was affected by an [[Tretridian Revolution of 1919|attempted takeover]] by the ÞSD (W), which had renamed itself the Tretridian Communist Party (ÞCP). To focus on putting down the uprising, Tretrid
The decolonization of Tretridian Southwest Gondwana has been panned by historians as rushed and careless, as Tretrid's abandonment of the colony was done without any care as to the future of the colony.
Interestingly enough, the relatively autonomous regions of [[Union of Wessæria|Wessæria]] and [[Free City of Clifport|Clifport]] claimed to not have been dissolved by proclamation of the Witan, unlike the administration of Tretridian Southwest Gondwana. While Ælfric II demanded that the Union of Wessæria and the Free City of Clifport be recognized as part of the Tretridian crown, the Witan refused to grant them that status. Wessæria persisted until its partition and later collapse, while Clifport would declare itself a republic the next year, renaming itself [[Dræset]].
The revolution itself led to the ÞCP to be banned and spurred the creation of the Asatru Democratic Party of Tretrid (ÞAD), which sought to promote royalistic populism. As the Conservative Party had largely collapsed due to the Great War, the ÞAD would entirely supplant it even as it remained small throughout the 1920s.
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The [[2017 Tretridian federal election|snap elections]] concluded in mid-January 2017, leading Æthelstanson's ÞSD to form a government with the ÞAD. The new Prime Minister swiftly instuted sweeping corruption probes into the LDP and companies implicated in the scandal. Several leading figures in the LDP ended up convicted for various corruption charges, including Wulfricson himself.
Æthelstanson also started to re-evaluate Tretrid's global position, which had grown precarious from years of neglect. Under the early months of his government, Æthelstanson would start engaging Volscina,
===Auroran-Pacific War===
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War broke out swiftly after that, as the Bursil Alliance formed in the summit fought with the Rivendale Pact. Tretrid would significantly boster the Third Fleet, its fleet in the Pacific and in the Morstaybishlian Sea, as it ended up bearing the brunt of the conflict. Tretrid would ultimately contribute a significant amount of forces to the Pacific theater of the war, helping to combat Strataric forces and nearly having invaded Stratarin itself had the country not surrendered.
Tretrid's forces in the war were organized under the [[Novaran Joint Expeditionary Force]], which also incorporated Kuthern, Mexregionian and Nacatan soldiers deployed in the war. The coordination of the war effort through the NJEF lead to a then-unprecedented level of cooperation three countries. Under the direction of Æthelstanson and Tretrid Ambassador-at-Large to Novaris [[Æthelwine Heardson]], the Tretridian government helped launch a series of conferences meant to explore future modes of intra-Novaran cooperation. The eventual result of these talks was the creation of the [[Laegue of Novaris]] by the four Novaran members of the Busil Accords, as well as Lapinumbia and
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==Geography==
Tretrid is the second-largest country on Novaris, bordering [[
Tretrid's elevation ranges from its highest point in the Nalpian mountains in its western frontier to to the shores of the Atlantian Sea at sea level.
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Tretrid is a founding member of the [[International Forum]] and the [[League of Novaris]], a member of the Global Crisis Council, a current member of the IF Security Council, and an observer state of the [[NSTO|North Shield Treaty Organization]], [[Union of Commonwealth Alliances]], and [[Intercontinental Regional Security Accords|Inter-Regional Security Accords]]. Tretrid holds an alliance with [[Great Morstaybishlia]] and with [[Kuthernburg]], and have been friendly with both Morstaybishlia and Kurthernburg since the 17th century.
Current Tretridian foreign policy doctrine emphasizes the formation of alliances and the maintenance of trade relations to act as a deterrent against any hostile actions taken against it. This is made most manifest in the [[Tolinsk Accords]], which makes Tretrid military allies with [[
Out of its former territories, Tretrid maintains strong relations with [[Transnalpia]], with whom they have a treaty for mutual assistance
As a result of the Novaran Cold War, Tretrid's relationship with Volscina after the Volscine Civil War has been chilly, but before the Correvan crisis was never actively hostile. The rise and fall of Correva caused relations between the two countries to rapidly deteriorate, however, and their current relationship has been described as "adversarial." [[Sarvimaa]] maintains a chilly relationship with Tretrid out of the mutually fear of invasion, though the Tretridian Ministry of Foreign Affairs maintains that a Tretridian invasion of Sarvimaa is "politically, morally, and tactically infeasible." [[Mirhaime Federation|Mirhaime]] maintains relatively cordial relations with Tretrid, however.
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