Nasiria

Nasiri Aravania, officially the Realm Dominion of Nasiri Aravania

Etymology
The name Nasiri Aravania is an that the Tiperyn government adopted for the region of North Kesh roughly north of the 5°N latitude and between the 46°E and 54°E longitudes following the foundation of the Realm City of Greater Nasir in 1732. This is derived from the words Nasiri—an ethnonym for the people who inhabit the region of Nasir, which is in itself an exonym—and Aravania—an Anglicized name for the area in North Kesh inhabited by the Aravan peoples.

The word Nasir—an Anglicization of the Aravan word Nāṣir which means "helper" or "one who gives victory"—was the name Tiperyn applied to the conglomeration of tribes living near the mouth of the Nasir River—then called Nahr el hayat (River of Life)—after they aided Tiperyn forces in wresting control of two port cities in the region from the Caliphate. In reality, there was a diverse number of ethnicities inhabiting the area, living primarily from agriculture dependent on the Nahr el hayat's seasonal flooding. The dominant tribe of the newly formed Realm City of Greater Nasir, the Mazzari, was favored by Tiperyn and thus became the local proxy rulers of what would eventually become Nasiri Aravania. After the end of the 18th century the Mazzari dropped their original name and acquired the name Nasiri.

Although the demonym Nasiri is internationally applied to all peoples living in Nasiri Aravania, only the tribe Nasiri identifies with it domestically. Aravans living in Nasiri Aravania identify with their own tribe or their geographical location based on major landmarks such as deserts, peninsulas and mountains. In the southern provinces, only 10% of inhabitants are Aravan, with the large majority being Mihrani.

The Mihrani term for Nasiri Aravania is Naseristan, which is derived from the ethnonym Naser and the suffix -stan meaning "place of". However, Mihranis living in Nasiri Aravania rarely use this term to describe themselves, with the greater Mihranestan region encompassing parts of southern Nasiri Aravania and Asharistan being considered separate from Aravania.