Geronian Confederation

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The Geronian Confederation (Spanish: Confederación Gerónica) ( listen) also known as Geronia (Spanish: Gerónia) is a sovereign state located on the south of Iberian Peninsula, Southwestern Europe. Its mainland is bordered by North Spain to the north, Portugal to the west and Algeria to the east.

The Geronian Confederation covers an area with 186,074 square kilometres (186,074,000,000 sq mi), has warm mediterranean climate.

Muslim invasion
In the 8th century, nearly all of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered (711–718) by largely Moorish Muslim armies from North Africa. These conquests were part of the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate. Only a small area in the mountainous north-west of the peninsula managed to resist the initial invasion.

The Reconquista
In the 11th century, the Muslim holdings fractured into rival Taifa kingdoms, allowing the small Christian states the opportunity to greatly enlarge their territories.

Kingdom of Geronia
In 1469, the crowns of the Christian kingdoms of Castile and Aragon were united by the marriage of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon. Remained only 2 independent kingdoms - the Kingdom of Geronia and the Kingdom of Valencia. Following Castile's and Aragon's illustration, two almost the same culture having countries united.

Geronia's expansion
After proclaiming the Kingdom of Geronia, with first king's Julius' commandments, it immediately started rapidly expansion policy, conquering northern parts of Spain and colonizing Africa and South America.

Imperial Geronia
During Spano-Geronian Wars, the Kingdom of Geronia reached its territorial peak and renamed to the Geronian Empire (1516). That same year, it has in its composition all nowaday Central American countries, Chile, Argentina, Columbia, Venezuela, Morocco, W. Sahara, SAP and lots of islands.

On the other hand, to keep all of this, the Geronian Empire got in many enervating wars with the United Kingdom, the Spanish Empire and the French Empire. Most of them were victorious, but at the end, small Geronian army couldn't endure intensifying countries' power. It resulted in great losses of colonies, diplomatic and political power.

Republican Era
In 1812, the Geronian Empire finnaly was declared collapsed. Following its disappearance, occured a civil war to recreate the country. It had two belligerents: royalist rebels and republican rebels. Surely, the war has been won by republicans, because they had more supporting countries such as France, the United states and the United Kingdom. This civil war claimed the lives of over 500,000 people and caused the flight of up to a half-million citizens from the country. The republican governance in Geronia lasted for 127 years, until the occupation of the Spanish State.

Spanish Occupation
The Republican Geronia remained neutral in the World War I and tried not to interfere in the German Reich's foreign politics. Its country-neighbour, the Spanish State, was allied to the German Reich and the Kingdom of Italy. These powerful powers wanted to boost nazi and fascist parties' population, but nohow failed. Seeing that, the Axis Powers (combined Spanish, German, Italian forces) agreed to invide the Geronian Republic and secretly set forces near the border: Spain-Geronia.

In 05:15, 25 December 1939 the Axis Powers declared war to the Geronian Republic and started Blitzkrieg. Exhausted Geronian Republic couldn't withstand and surrendered.

Independence
Geronia was under the Spanish occupation until 1978, when dissatisfied citizens started to protest against Spanish rule.

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