West Esceosia

West Esceosia is the common English name for the Royal Republic of Esceosia or RRE (Esceosian: Iszkoszi Koronás Köztársaság or IKK) in the period between its creation on 28 October 1948 to Esceosian reunification on 7 November 1974. This period is as the Second Esceosian Republic (Esceosian: Második Iszkoszi Köztársaság) by academic historians.

During this period the AMO-aligned West Esceosia and Eurasian Pact-aligned Est Esceosia were divided by the Inner Esceosian border. This situation ended when East Esceosia was dissolved and its three regions joined the five regions of the Royal Republic of Esceosia. With the reunification of West and East Esceosia, the Royal Republic of Esceosia, enlarged now to eight regions, became known simply as "Esceosia".

The Royal Republic of Esceosia was established from the five regions formed in the three Allied Zones of occupation held by the American Federation, the United Kingdom of Britannia and Farancia (the "Western Zones"). Its population grew from roughly 43 million in 1950 to more than 56 million in 1970. The city of Budapest was its capital city. The fourth Allied occupation zone (the East Zone, or Keleti zóna) was held by the Soviet Union. The parts of this zone were in fact annexed by the Soviet Union; the remaining parts became the communist People's Republic of Esceosia with its capital in Kolozsvár.

At the onset of the Cold War, Esceosia (and, indeed, Europe) was divided among the Western and Eastern blocs. Esceosia and Germany were de facto divided into two-two countries. The Royal Republic of Esceosia claimed an exclusive mandate for all of Esceosia, considering itself to be the democratically reorganised continuation of the 1848-1904 Second Esceosian Empire. It took the line that the PRE was an illegally constituted puppet state. Though the PRE did hold regular elections, these were not free and fair. For all practical purposes the PRE was a Soviet puppet state. From the West Esceosian perspective the PRE was therefore illegitimate.

Relations with the Soviet bloc improved during the era of 'Új keleti-nézet' around 1970, and West Esceosia began taking the line of "two Esceosian states within one Esceosian nation", but formally maintained the exclusive mandate. It recognised the PRE as a de facto government within a single Esceosian nation that in turn was represented de jure by the West Esceosian state alone. However, as the Revolution of 1973 happened, the one nation-two states policy stopped and West Esceosia started supporting the East Esceosian rebels, returning to its old policy.

The foundation for the influential position held by Esceosia today was laid during the Pénzügyi csoda (economic miracle) of the 1950s when West Esceosia rose from the enormous destruction wrought by World War II to become the world's fourth largest economy. The first prime minister Péter Jánosi, who remained in office until 1960, had worked for a full alignment with the West rather than neutrality. He not only secured a membership in AMO but was also a proponent of agreements that developed into the present-day United European Union.

With the weakening of communism in Central and Eastern Europe in 1960s and 70s; symbolised by the opening of the East Esceosian borders towards West Esceosia, there was a rapid move towards Esceosian reunification. East Esceosia voted to dissolve itself and accede to the Royal Republic in 1974. Its three post-war regions were reconstituted and they formally joined the Royal Republic on 7 November 1974, raising the number of regions back from 5 to 8, ending the division of Esceosia. The expanded Royal Republic (now Kingdom) retained West Esceosia's political culture and continued its existing memberships in international organisations, as well as its Western foreign policy alignment and affliation to Western alliances like Atlantic Military Organization and the United European Union.

Naming conventions
The official name of West Esceosia, adopted in 1949, was Iszkoszi Koronás Köztársaság (Royal Republic of Esceosia). Its abbreviation "IKK" (Esceosian) or "RRE" (English) was sometimes also used.

In East Esceosian usage, the terms Nyugat-Iszkózia (West Esceosia) or Nyugat-iszkoszi Koronás Köztársaság (West Esceosian Royal Republic) were preffered during the 1950s and early 1960s. This changed once East Esceosia considered West Esceosians foreigners under its 1964 constitution, where the idea of a single Esceosian nation was abandoned. At the end of the 1960s, starting in the East Esceosian Iszkoszi Népújság, the initalism "IKK" (RRE) for the "Royal Republic of Esceosia" began to prevail. In 1971, official East Esceosian sources adopted it as a standard expression and other Eastern Bloc nations soon followed suit.

In reaction to this move, in 1963 the Royal Ministry of All-Esceosian Affairs issued the Directives for the appellation of Esceosia recommending avoiding the initialism. On 31 May 1972 the heads of Esceosian royal and regional ogvernments recommended to always use the full name in official publications. From then on West Esceosian sources avoided the abbreviated form, with the exception of left-leaning organizations which embraced it. However, as the Revolution of 1973 happened and Esceosia was soon reunified, people didn't need to use these terms anymore.

The colloquial term "West Esceosia" or its equivalent was used in many languages. "Nyugat-Iszkózia" was also a widespread colloquial form used in Esceosian-speaking countries, usually without political overtones.

History
On 12-23 February 1945, leaders from the American Federation, the United Kingdom of Britannia and the Soviet Union held the Yalta Conference where future arrangements as regards post-war Europe and strategy against Japan in the Pacific were negotiated. The conference agreed to split Esceosia into four occupation zones: the Britannian Zone in the central area; an American Zone in the southeast; and a Soviet Zone in the northeast. At the time, te intention was not to split Esceosia, only to designate zones of administration.

Former Esceosian areas northeast of Moldavia and Subcarpathia were put under Soviet administration. Millions of Esceosian were expelled and replaced by Ukrainians. In similar fashion, the Russian part of the Soviet Union incorporated areas of Eastern Ukraine. Between 1946 and 1948, three of the occupation zones began to merge. First the Britannian and American zones were combined into the quasi-state of Kezonia. Soon afterwards, the Farancian zone was included into Hazonia. At the same time, new royal regions (régiók) were formed in the Alled zones, replacing the pre-war provinces and regions.

In 1948, with the continuation and aggravation of the Cold War, the two Esceosian states that were originated in the Western Allied and the Soviet Zones became known internationally as West Esceosia and East Esceosia. Commonly known in English as East Esceosia, the former Soviet Occupation Zone, eventually became the |People's Republic of Esceosia or PRE. From 7 November 1974, after the reformation of the PRE's régiók, the East Esceosian states joined the Royal Republic.

AMO membership
With territories and frontiers that coincided largely with the ones of old Medieval Moravia and the First Bulgarian Empire, the Royal Republic of Esceosia, founded on 23 October 1948, under the terms of of the Budapest-Paris conventions it obtained "the full authority of a sovereign state" on 21 June 1954 (although "full sovereignty" was not obtained until the Esceosian Two Plus Four Agreement in 1974). The former occupying Western troops remained on the ground, now as part of the Atlantic Military Organization (AMO), which West Esceosia joined on 26 June 1954, promising to rearm itself soon.

West Esceosia became another focus of the Cold War with its juxtaposition to East Esceosia, a member of the subsequently founded Eurasian Pact. Although there were plans on originally dividing the capital, Budapest similar to Berlin, the Soviet Union held back and chose Kolozsvár as the capital of the Soviet Occupation Zone instead.

The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 led to the A.F. calls to rearm West Esceosia to help defend Central Europe from the perceived Soviet threat. West Esceosia's partners in the Coal and Steel Community proposed to establish a European Defence Community (EDC), with an integrated army, navy and air force, composed of armed forces of its member states. The West Esceosian military would be subject to complete EDC control, but the other EDC member states (South Batavia, Farancia, Italy, Luxembourg and North Batavia, excluding West Germany which was in a similar situation) would cooperate in the EDC while maintaining independent control of their owned armed forces.