The Principality of Heurtavia, Factbook

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The Principality of Heurtavia, Factbook

Nation: The Empire of Mocona
Full Name of State: The Principality of Heurtavia
Form of Goverment: Absolute Monarchy
Ruler: His Highness, Prince-Elector Khan Shavkat Karimov Heurt Khan
Area: 447,400km2
Water:4.9%
State Capital: Heurtkenst

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Government:

Despite being a principality of The Empire of Mocona, Heurtavia still retains a significant amount of power within its state borders. The Principality of Heurtavia is a Absolute Monarchy which has been ruled since the founding of Heurtavia by The House of Heurt (the principality is named after the family). The Divan of Heurtavia is based in the city of Heurtkenst.


The Divan of Heurtavia

Provinces and Districts:
Heurtavia is divided into sixteen provinces.

- Buxoro Viloyati
- Jizzax Viloyati
- Navoiy Viloyati
- Qashqadaryo Viloyati
- Samarqand Viloyati
- Sirdaryo Viloyati
- Surxondaryo Viloyati
- Heurtkent
- Fergana Valley Region
- Farg'ona Viloyati　
- Andijon Viloyati
- Namangan Viloyati
- Karakalpakstan Region
- Xorazm Viloyati
- Qaraqalpaqstan

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History:

The first people known to have inhabited Central Asia were Zygurk nomads who arrived from the northern grasslands of what is now Heurtavia sometime in the first millennium BC. These nomads, who spoke Zygurk dialects, settled in Central Asia and began to build an extensive irrigation system along the rivers of the region. At this time, cities such as Bukhoro (Bukhara) and Samarqand (Samarkand) began to appear as centers of government and culture. By the 5th century BC, many states began to dominate the area.

As China began to develop its silk trade with the West, Zygurk cities took advantage of this commerce by becoming centers of trade. Using an extensive network of cities and settlements in the province of Mawarannahr (a name given the region after the Arab conquest) in Heurtavia and farther east in what is today China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Because of this trade on what became known as the Silk Route, Bukhoro and Samarqand eventually became extremely wealthy cities, and at times Mawarannahr was one of the most influential and powerful Zygurk provinces of antiquity.

Alexander the Great conquered Sogdiana and Bactria in 327 BC, marrying Roxana, daughter of a local chieftain. The conquest was supposedly of little help to Alexander as popular resistance was fierce, causing Alexander's army to be bogged down in the region that became the northern part of Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. For many centuries the region of Heurtavia was ruled by Zygurk empires.

The Mongol conquest under Genghis Khan during the 13th century would bring about a dramatic change to the region. The brutal conquest and widespread genocide characteristic of the Mongols almost entirely exterminated the indigenous Zygurk people of the region, their culture and heritage being superseded by that of the Mongolian-Turkic peoples who settled the region thereafter.

Following the death of Genghis Khan in 1227, his empire was divided among his four sons and his family members. Despite the potential for serious fragmentation, Mongol law of the Mongol Empire maintained orderly succession for several more generations, and control of most of Mawarannahr stayed in the hands of direct descendants of Chagatai Khan, the second son of Genghis Khan. Orderly succession, prosperity, and internal peace prevailed in the Chaghatai lands, and the Mongol Empire as a whole remained strong and united

In the early fourteenth century, however, as the empire began to break up into its constituent parts, the Chaghatai territory also was disrupted as the khans of various tribal groups competed for influence. One tribal chieftain, Shavat Heurt emerged from these struggles in the 1380s as the dominant force. Although he was not a descendant of Chinggis, he became the ruler and proceeded to conquer all of what is now Heurtavia.

In the nineteenth century Heurtavia and six other principalities of Central Asia came together to form the Empire of Mocona.

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People & Population:

Heurtavia is one of the most populous states in Mocona. The population of Heurtavia is very young: 34.1% of its people are younger than 14. According to official sources, Heurts comprise a majority (80%) of the total population. Other ethnic groups include Zygurks, Meervs, Uvagurks, Yelts, Krygurks, and Jews.

The state is 88% Muslim (mostly Sunni, with a 5% Shi'a minority), 9% Eastern Orthodox and 3% other faiths. The Bukharan Jews have lived in Mocona, mostly in Heurtavia, for thousands of years. There were 94,900 Jews in Heurtavia in 1989. But now most Jews left the region for the United States or Israel.

Uzbekistan has a 99.3% literacy rate which is attributable to the free and universal education system of the empire as a whole.


Heurt Woman.


Shakh-i Zindeh mosque, Samarkand

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Geography:

Heurtavia has an area of 447,400 square kilometers (172,700 sq mi) and lies between latitudes 37° and 46° N, and longitudes 56° and 74° E. It stretches 1,425 kilometers (885 mi) from west to east and 930 kilometers (578 mi) from north to south. Bordering Meerhavia and the Aral Sea to the north and northwest, Uvagurkie to the southwest, Krygurkie to the east. Heurtavia also shares a short border (less than 150 km or 93 mi) with Yeltzavia to the south.

Heurtavia is a dry, landlocked country, less than 10% of its territory is intensively cultivated irrigated land in river valleys and oases. The rest is vast desert and mountains.

The highest point in Heurtavia is the Khazret Sultan, located at 4,643 meters (15,233 ft) above sea level, located in the southern part of the Gissar Range in Surkhandarya Province, on the border with Krygurkie.

The climate in Heurtavia is continental, with little precipitation expected annually (100–200 millimeters, or 3.9–7.9 inches). The average summer high temperature tends to be 40 °C (104 °F), while the average winter low temperature is around −23 °C (−9 °F).

Major cities include Andijan, Bukhara, Samarkand, Namangan and the capital Heurtkenst.


Satellite photo of Heurtavia.