History Part 2 : 1318 A.D. - 1918

In 1318, several of the small kingdoms and duchies in the southeast merged to form the new Kingdom of Reultan and declared their capital to be Bhaile Naomh Anndra (St. Andrew's, in what is now St. Andrew County). Through both violence and diplomacy, the new kingdom absorbed surrounding lands over the next 160 years.

Reultan ruled all of the island except the Kingdom of Douglas by 1478, which rested joining the Kingdom of Reultan until 1786.

Threatened by Reultan's growing economic power and territorial expansion, King Henry VII of England sent troops to the Eileanan Bhioctoria (Victoria Islands) in June of 1489. While initially successfully in conquering the islands along with small pockets of Reultan's southern and eastern coastlines, King Daibhidh II of Reultan's powerful army kept the British from making any large gains until 1496 when the British captured St. Andrew's, the capital of the Kingdom of Reultan at the time. Surrounding villages quickly fell to the English after that. The entirety of the Kingdom of Douglas also fell to the British. Retaliation from King Daibhidh's army was slow but fierce, and the British lost all their captured territories on the Reultanian mainland by 1499. After three more years of fierce fighting over the Victoria Islands, King Daibhidh forced the defeated King Henry into signing the Cùmhnant nah-Fiodh Seòladh (Treaty of Driftwood) in late 1502. The treaty ended the Kingdom of England's occupation of Victoria and forced reparation payments for damage from the English Crown.

King Henry occupied Douglas until 1508, when the Treaty of Jacktown was signed, restoring rule to King Gille-Aindreis of Douglas.

Founded in St. Andrew's by King Eòsaph III in 1580, the Gobha-Airgead Nàiseanta (National Mint) is Reultan's oldest still-operating state corporation.

Amid newfound economic power in the west, the capital was moved to Crìoch Fearainn (Land's End) in 1601. Land's End has been Reultan's largest city since the 1650's, except during the early twentieth centruy when parts of the city were cleared and rebuilt. It is named for it's position at the end of the Mogh Roith peninsula in Reultan's southwest.

Regular mail services began when King Maolruibh I established Phuist Rìoghail (Royal Post) in 1757. Renamed Phuist Reultan in 1811, the service continues today as a state-owned corporation.

Another state-owned corporation that continues to operate is the Taigh-Rèidh Nàiseanta na Reultan (National Bank of Reultan), founded by King Pàdraig VI as the Reultanian Royal Bank in 1780.

Almost 500 years of rule by various monarchs came to an end with the Reultanian Revolution, a series of events beginning in 1796 that eventually led to the overthrow of the King Fionnghall II, and the ruling House of Mac an Tòisich, and the establishment of the Republic of Reultan. Oppressed by an increasingly harsh king and unpopular queen consort, and with inspiration from the French, Reultanian pro-republican people and the military joined forces throughout the revolution years. After several days of violent protests and looting outside their palace in Crìoch Fearainn (Land's End). King Fionnghall and Queen Oighrig fled the city disguised as peasants. The revolution climaxed in April 1804, when they were recognized by a peasant named Seòras MacBhrìghdeinn, and then apprehended in Kirkbridge, a town at the mouth of the River Tethra in modern-day Solomon County. The hated monarchs were publicly executed by hanging at nearby Fort Solomon after a short trial.

Violence continued between political and religious factions even after the first parliament convened at the palace abandoned by the royals in late 1806.

Fionnghall's son and heir to the throne, Prince Cuithbeart fled North to Inbhir Mòr in Darkiron County. There he established a royal government-in-exile. Throughout early 1808, the Republican forces captured several members of the royal family, including the Prince, and returned them to Land's End, where they were imprisoned. In November 1809, the surviving members of the Reultanian royal family were freed and expelled to Ireland. Months later, they were again expelled to the island of Jersey, a small British Crown dependency in the English Channel.

In 1811, the nascent republic introduced the reulòr, which has been Reultan's national currency ever since.

The year 1818 was a celebratory one in Reultan, being the first first year after the overthrow of the monarchy where a legislative session was not marred by violence between monarchists and republicans. Monarchists had been banned from forming political parties or participating in royalist rallies or other activities several months before the successful legislative session. Reultan also celebrated its 500th birthday that year with parades and festivals around the nation. Reultan has celebrated Reultan Day on July 28th each year since.

Having ignored the previous American colonial expansion of its neighbors, Reultan was an eager participant in the Scramble for Africa in the late 1800's. Reultanian explorers, after mapping much of Africa's southwestern coast, claimed part of the Khoisan-speaking area for itself in 1881.

Wedged between Angola and Namibia, Reultan named its colony Druimìbhrinn from the Reultannach words "roinn Druim an ìbhri", meaning "Ivory Ridge Province". While initially establishing slave markets in several coastal settlements, Reultan banned slavery in both Druimìbhrinn and Reultan in 1906. A wage economy similar to that of Reultan was established and inspectors were employed to ensure slaves had been freed from all plantations and other slave-holders.

For the next several decades, Reultan's government allotted large swaths of Druimìbhrinn's land area to Reultanian natural resource companies. Gold, silver, copper, diamonds and magnesium are just a few of the resources obtained from the colony.

After a decade of planning and political hurdles, construction began on Reultan's new purpose-built capital city in 1905. The massive infrastructure project was intended to bring the capital closer to the geographic center of the country and to make space for a large-scale urban renewal project in Land's End, the former capital. The new city was named Achadubh (Black Meadow) (pronounced AHK-a-djoo). The city centre was mostly completed and officially declared the capital in 1912. Expansion continued in the surrounding greenbelt throughout the next century.

The First World War saw Reultan join the Allied Powers in late 1914. The German Empire briefly occupied a large swath of northeastern Reultan for much of 1917-1918. The occupied territory was named Wilhelmsland for German Emperor Wilhelm II. The Germans made the city of MacAllister in modern Brùs County their capital and renamed it Sachsendorf (Saxontown). While the Central Powers damaged some of eastern Reultan's infrastructure in the war, Reultan's large and well-trained army succeeded in repelling most of their attacks.