Urdestan (EthanKoenigsberg)

''This article is on EthanKoenigsberg's backstory "Occultatum Libera" or just a revised version of Alternate History of the World. for the original nation, see here ''

Republic of Urdestan is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Urdestan borders five countries, Kigrizia to the east, Turkestan to the west, Russia to the north, Persia to the southwest and Khorasan to the southeast. It is split into six provinces and one capital, Tashkent.

Once part of the Turkic Khaganate and later Timurid Empires, the region that today includes the Republic of Urdestan was conquered in the early 16th century by Eastern Turkic-speaking nomads. The area was gradually incorporated into the Russian Empire during the 19th century, and in 1903 what is now Uzbekistan became a bordered constituent republic of the Soviet Union, known as the Urdish Soviet Socialist Republic (Urdish SSR). Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, it declared independence as the Republic of Urdestan on 31 August 1991 (officially celebrated the following day). (this date is a placeholder)

Urdestan is a constitutional republic with a diverse cultural heritage. The country's official language is Urdish, a Turkic language written in Latin alphabet and spoken natively by approximately 85% of the population; however, Russian remains in widespread use. Urdes constitute 79% of the population, followed by Russians (5.4%), Tajiks (4.0%), Kazakhs (3.2%), Turkmen (2.8%) and others (5.6%). A majority of Uzbeks are non-denominational Muslims, Zoroastrians are concentrated near the border of Khorasan and Persia but are always persecuted.

Urdestan's economy relies mainly on commodity production, including cotton, gold, uranium, and natural gas. Despite the declared objective of transition to a market economy, its government continues to maintain economic controls which imports in favour of domestic "import substitution".

History
The first people inhabiting the region were mostly Iranian nomads who arrived from northern grasslands sometime in the 1st millennium BCE. These nomads, spoke Iranian dialects settled in Central Asia and build an irrigation system along the rivers. By this time, cities such as Bukhoro, Samarkand and Chash began to appear as centres.

As Cathay began to develop its silk trade with the West, Iranian cities took advantage of this commerce by becoming centres of trade. Using an extensive network of cities and rural settlements in the province of Mouwaurannahr (a name given the region after the Arab conquest) in Uzbekistan, and further east in what is today China's Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Soghdian intermediaries became the wealthiest of these Iranian merchants. As a result of this trade on what became known as the Silk Route, Bukhoro and Samarkand eventually became extremely wealthy cities, and at the time Transoxiana (Mawarannahr) was one of the largest, most influential and powerful Persian provinces of antiquity.

Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great conquered in 327 BC the Persian Empire provinces Sogdiana and Bactria, which contained the territories of modern Urdestan. A conquest was supposedly of little help to Alexander as popular resistance was fierce, causing Alexander's army to be bogged down in the region that became the northern part of the Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. The kingdom was replaced with the Yuezhi dominated Kushan Empire in the 1st century BC. For many centuries the region of Uzbekistan was ruled by the Persian empires, including the Parthian and Sassanid Empires, as well as by other empires, for example those formed by the Iranian Hephthalite and Turkic Gokturk peoples.

In the 8th century, Transoxiana, the territory between the Amudarya and Syrdarya rivers, was conquered by the Arabs (Ali ibn Sattor) who enriched the region with the Early Renaissance. Many notable scientists lived there and contributed to its development during the Islamic Golden Age. Among the achievements of the scholars during this period were the development of trigonometry into its modern form (simplifying its practical application to calculate the phases of the moon), advances in optics, in astronomy, as well as in poetry, philosophy, art, calligraphy and many others, which set the foundation for the Muslim Renaissance. In the 10th century, the Seljuk Empire formed in the southern part of Urdestan, a region formerly home to many Turkmen, however Turkmen are able to spread Turkic cultures into modern Emoria and Asia Minor.

The Mongol conquest under Genghis Khan during the 13th century would bring about a change to the region. The Mongol invasion of Central Asia led to the displacement of some of the Iranian-speaking people of the region, their culture and heritage being superseded by that of the Mongolian-Turkic peoples who came thereafter. The invasions of Bukhara, Samarkand, Urgench and others resulted in mass murders and unprecedented destruction, such as portions of Khwarezmia being completely razed.

Following the death of Genghis Khan and fall of the Changatai and the Ilkhanate between 13th century to the 14th century, the Timurid Empire rose and usurped much of Urdestan by a fierce ruler Timur.

(... 14th cent to 18th cent later ...)

The region eventually became colonised and annexed into Russia at late 19th century and during the Great War (1892-1898), an independence movement rose at 18th February 1897 during the Russian Civil War (1896-1900) with modernised weapons to create an independent nation of Urdestan. The ideology and irredentist ideals of a greater Urdestan encompressed modern Kygrizia, Turkestan, Afghanistan, southern Kazakhstan and northeast Persia. They later fell since 7 months after they rose when Bolsheviks broke the frontline of separatists at Kazakhia. The Soviet Union eventually reorganised the region of Kazakhia and Turkestan to four socialist republics, including an Urde SSR.

When the Soviet Union broke up and dissolved at 1990, Urdestan was formed and proclaimed by many people then joined the United Nations at 1992, about one year after Kazakhia and Turkestan joined. Recently they remain influenced by Russian Empire due to an expanding influence and imperialism by the Imperium. At 2011, Urdestan became member of the Eurasian Union and recently the Russian Empire has a dwindling influence and China eventually becoming a replacement of Russia increasingly, Urdestan is more willingly to open negotiations with them despite far distance. In 2nd September 2016, Islam Karimov (screw originality) dies and an election has being held for the second president and due for next year

Foreign relations
All nations of EthanKoenigsberg including this variant of Urdestan (maybe certain exceptions lol) are currently not open up for ON alliances or treaties