Haukvirth

Duchy of Haukvirth
State
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Map of Tiperyn with Haukvirth highlighted and capital city marked
Country	Tiperyn
Capital	Haukvirth
Largest city	Alahaven
Government
• Type	Constitutional monarchy
• Duchess	Alvina of Dudley
Area
• Total	235,900 km2 (91,000 sq mi)
Population (2021)
• Total	31,497,475
• Density	130/km2 (350/sq mi)

The Duchy of Haukvirth (Tipsprek: Hartokdom fan Haukvirth) is a federated state of Tiperyn. It is the largest Anglic-speaking state of Tiperyn and considered the worldwide linguistic center of the language. Haukvirth is physically split between its northeastern interior region north of the Izerhert Mountain Range and the Greater Alahaven Metropolis divided from contiguous Haukvirth by Zoervoud. The state is the 3rd most populous subdivision in the Holy Tiperyn Realm, including overseas territories like Nasiria, with a population of about 31.5 million as of 2021. The city of Alahaven accounts for 86.5% of Haukvirth's residents and acts as the economic capital of northern Tiperyn. Haukvirth's political capital is the city of Haukvirth on the periphery of the Izerhert Mountains, which houses an additional 1.5 million.

The state dates back to the 13th century with the unification and subjugation of the several independent Middle Anglic-speaking polities of Northern Goidelia under the independent Duchy of Haukvirth. Following the House Wars and Goidelic Campaign of the 14th century—during which Haukvirth was formally neutral but de facto aligned with the Tipslan-Idlerein bloc—Haukvirth was integrated into the Tiperyn Realm as a member of the tripartite dominating the subcontinent. Haukvirth's integration into the Realm saw the transfer of what is now the Alahaven peninsula to it from Zoervoud as reparation for the latter's opposition to Tipslan during the House Wars. This alliance's control of Tiperyn solidified following the Dukes' Rebellion (1389-1393) and the Apostolicization of the Realm in the 15th century.

Haukvirth maintains special status as a co-equal state with the Grand Duchy of Tipslan, the seat of the Empress of Tiperyn. This status originates in the 14th century when Haukvirth was an separate ally of Tipslan and Idlerein during the Tiperyn Realm's early post-unification wars. Haukvirth status gives it significant self-governance beyond the typical confederal powers of a Tiperyn state and administrative authority over the Anglic-speaking Principality of Spencton. It and Spencton are the only states within Tiperyn to conduct business in Anglic rather than Tipsprek, and Haukvirth's aristocracy secured Anglic as a legal national language on par with Tipsprek (as opposed to regional languages like Channel Insennian spoken in Grootshaven and Kanaalbaken that lack national recognition). Historically the Duchess of Haukvirth has been the only provincial monarch to be granted administrative authority over an overseas territory. For example, before the consolidation of Tiperyn's Southern Avalonian colonial holdings in the 19th century and formalization of the Federal Governor system, the Realm City of Chimchag as an Anglic-speaking colony had its mayor appointed by the Duchess of Haukvirth rather than the Empress. All other overseas territories had their colonial administrations and governorships appointed directly by the national monarch.

Haukvirth is broadly known for its manufacturing and lumbering industries, being the home of large manufacturing cities like Haukvirth, Alahaven, and Nottingford as well as large swaths of boreal forest in its northern interior. The state is considered Tiperyn's aerospace capital, hosting the headquarters of enterprises such as Ares Aerospace and Realm Airways founded by the Haukvirther Myerscough family.