Zaporizhia

Zaporizhia (: Запоро́жье, : Запорі́жжя), officially United Zaporizhia (: Объединенный Запоро́жье, : Об’єднане Запорі́жжя), is a  located in Eastern Artemia. Zaporizhia is a relatively young country, formed out of the United Provinces of Rovsnoska and Zaporizhia in 1994. Zaporizhia possesses sizeable agricultural areas, heavy industries and strategic commercial seaports essential to Eastern Artemian trade with Kesh. In comparison to some of its neighbouring states, there is a considerable scarcity of natural resources in Zaporizhia and it depends on service exports to sustain its economic stability. Owing to its recent involvement in a crippling, Zaporizhia's industry continues to suffer. Zaporizhia shares a border with Yarova to the north, Poja to the south, Tethys coastline to the east, and Rovsnoska to the west.

Etymology
"Zaporizhia" derives its name from the Peremorovkan beyond the rapids, which references its geographic situation in regards to the River Alegiyev which spans across much of Artemia's Far East.

Antiquity and early history
Evidence of  settlement in Zaporizhia can be seen in archaeological sites near the capital of Sosnivika (approximately 42,000 BCE) which include discoveries of remains. The territory of modern-day Zaporizhia is also widely thought to be the likely location for the human domestication of the horse. The region was largely dominated by the in a time frame from the late-6th century CE to the mid-to-late-9th century CE. Subsequent to this, the advent of the led to the creation of the East Slavic confederacy of Ljudia. The confederacy, which is estimated by historians to have existed from the late-9th century to the mid-13th century CE, included territory now part of Yarova and Rovnoska. Ljudia derives its name from the ljudьje meaning “men” or “people.”

In 988 CE, Pyotr the Pious of Ljudia introduced to the  Ljudians. The administrative structure of the confederacy became increasingly decentralised over time and eventually disintegrated by the 12th century CE, with the emergence of several distinct East Slavic nations. Zaporizhia surfaced as a separate nation in spite of its cultural closeness to the other ethnic Yarovar tribes to the north. With respect to this, in the ethnolinguistic sense, Zaporizhians are occasionally referred to as 'south-eastern Yarovars'. During the, Zaporizhia was a of the Tsardom of Yarova, maintaining a strong association with its northern brethren but simultaneously cultivating its own identity with its centre of government in the fortified city of Sosnivika.

Governorate of Zaporizhia (1743-1926)
Following the extensive and unprecedented territorial expansion of the Yarovan Vojiskiy Empire throughout the 18th century CE, as part of the manifest destiny policy of Vostochnoye Gospodstvo (‘Eastern Domination’), the Protectorate of Zaporizhia was directly annexed in 1743. Along with the neighbouring ethnic Yarovar territory of Rovsnoska, Zaporizhia was reorganised as a Governorate of the Vojiskiy Crown (guberniya). The Governorate served as a crucial asset to the Empire’s carrying out of international trade and aided in its colonial expansion into Kesh, with the conquest of Tolima in 1786 CE. A substantial number of ethnic Peremorovkars settled in the Governorate and established fishing villages on the Zaporizhia Peninsula.

In the latter part of the 19th century CE, Zaporizhian nationalism, republicanism and communism caught traction in the Governorate. Zaporizhia birthed notable communist figures Igor Schrebina and Vladimir Kurchatov, who would go on to collaborate with Rovsnoskan separatists of a shared communist persuasion to secede from the Vojiskiy Empire following its collapse in 1926. Schrebina particularly advocated unity with Rovsnoska but separation from Greater Yarova. Similar to the union of the and  in the United Socialist Boreal Republics of Aukalnia and Sartland, which was also founded in 1926, the United Provinces of Rovsnoska and Zaporizhia was considered a temporary measure. An attempt was made by the first President of the United Federated Districts of Yarova, Vladimir Simakin, to reunify the ethnic Yarovar regions, however, this was foiled following his passing away in September 1926. The communist one-party system of the United Provinces impacted the diplomatic relationship with the newly-democraticised Yarova, however, relations rarely strayed beyond neutral.

United Provinces of Rovsnoska and Zaporizhia (1926-1994)
After the two states joined, Vladimir kurchatov became the first president of the new—socialist—United Provinces which he ruled through the supreme soviet of The United provinces of Rovsnoska and Zaporizhia. Once a predominantly agricultural country, The United provinces was transformed into a mid-range industrial country, and acquired an international reputation due too manufacturing Diesel engines. The United provinces of Rovsnoska and Zaporizhia was established as a federal state comprising two republics, from north to south: Rovsnoska and Zaporizhia. In 1943 Andre marchotov the then head of the opposing party, was kidnaped beaten and shot. This sparked outrage in the country and almost caused a civil war, this was prevented due to military law being declared and all opposition was destroyed. In 1968 oil was found in between Rovsnoska and Zaporizhia, the country had its economy boom with the new found wealth, two companies where formed out of it. Zapoatom a company made only to build an operate the new Reactors The UPRZ was building. And Rosuran a company that mined uranium. In 1972 the first hole was dug at Cherkasy Nuclear power plant, the plant would go online in 1980 and supply power too Sosnevika.

The collapse
In 1984 the oil ran out, slowly people got less and less and started to get unhappy, in 1993 a great famine struck the UPRZ killing thousands, this and the fact that the country had no economic growth lead too unhappy people. In 1994 a peaceful protest was brutally subdued. This sparked the civil war, in the end the UPRZ was divided into two states, the south where the communists still had power, and the north where the rebel’s got control. This later became rovsnoska. The south became Zaporizhia.