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Early history
The Lygoravetlan peoples are among the earliest known populations in Bangju, predating the Fusenic and even Aenuic settlements, and are believed to have migrated south from modern Taniilux as early as 40,000 BCE. They adopted settled agriculture and formed into chiefdoms around 500 CE.

Lygoravetlan principalities
Over the next few centuries these chiefdoms consolidated into larger (though still fairly small) principalities combining cultural influences from Sinju and Thunderbird Bay and intermittently under the influence of larger states like Wamu, Yaettengkkok, and Gitsan. By the 1600s there were nine Lygoravetlan principalities, the most prominent of which was Chauchuven, around what is now Chauchu’s central bay.

Taniiluxan rule
In the 1600s the Lygoravetlan principalities were gradually conquered by the expanding empire of Taniilux; the six northern principalities were directly annexed into the empire while the southern three - Nemelan, Anqallyt, and Alutalu - became semi-independent vassal states under Tanii suzerainty. The former territory of the northern principalities, now united into a single imperial province, began to develop a united Chauchuan national identity, based mostly on the old Chauchuven, especially after the rise of the nationalist movement in the 1800s and the standardization of their dialects into a single language, while the southern principalities as separate jurisdictions each maintained their own distinct identities and dialects.

Kingdom of Chauchu
After the Bangju War, Chauchu regained its independence with a new monarchy and enjoyed a brief period of prosperity, but this proved to be short-lived: just a decade later, both it and the southern principalities were invaded and occupied by Hachuabsh soon into the Great Eulhae War. Parts of western Chauchu were also occupied and annexed by Sakushi. Most of Chauchu became free again with the collapse of Hachuabsh in 1943. Jeongmian forces soon landed in the country and fended off a Fusenese attempt to re-invade it from Wamu, and the remaining Sakushin-occupied western region was returned with Sakushi’s surrender in 1944.

Lygvarat Federation
After Eulhae, a wave of pan-Lygoravetlan nationalism fueled by the sense that the Lygoravetlan nations’ division allowed for their conquest combined with the Allies’ desire for strong nations in eastern Bangju as a counterweight to the now-socialist Hachuabsh and fears that the southern principalities in particular would be easy pickings for socialist revolutions and thus a bridgehead for socialism into Bangju. With Sinjuan backing, nationalists won brief clashes with monarchists in both Chauchu and the southern principalities, proclaimed new republics, and quickly united them into the new federation of Lygvarat.

Much of Lygvarat’s history concerns the ultimately unsuccessful attempts to address the imbalance between its member states, with Chauchu having more population and territory than the other three combined. Lygvarat initially had a four-member presidency, one from each state, and a parliament where Chauchu was assigned half of the seats while a sixth each went to the other three states. From independence until his death in 1974 Lygoravetlan politics was dominated by the charismatic strongman Gyrgyn Korave, who managed to successfully head off major tensions, but after his death the government became increasingly paralyzed and dysfunctional.

In 1980 as an attempted compromise, two ethnic minority regions of Chauchu were elevated in status and given presidential seats but this only further inflamed tensions, with southerners seeing it as encroaching Chauchuan domination and Chauchuans seeing it as a dilution of their territorial integrity. Politics became increasingly polarized between the call for a single popularly-elected president and proportional representation in parliament in the north, and the call for an equal number of parliament seats for each member state (with the autonomous regions elevated to full member status) in the south. These tensions culminated in a failed attempt at a constituent assembly in 1988, from which the Chauchuan delegation walked out after the southern delegations gained the upper hand.

Republic of Chauchu
Chauchu seceded from Lygvarat as a result, taking most of the federation’s economic and military strength with it. The newly independent state and the rump Lygvarat fought a short war over the ethnically diverse Gechurmen region on the border of Chauchu and Anqallyt, which Chauchu won, causing the remainder of Lygvarat to break up into its constituent parts. Chauchu also defeated attempted secessionist rebellions in its autonomous regions, with most active fighting done by 1992. In the 1996 Namgyen Accords, all former members acknowledged the termination of the Lygoravetlan federation and recognized Chauchu’s control of Gechurmen and the autonomous regions.

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