Dācuas
From Almeopedia
| Dācuas | |
| -290 - 590 | |
| Native: | Dācuas |
| Verdurian: | Däcua |
| Characteristics | |
| Capital: | Dunōmeyū |
| Government: | Monarchy |
| Ruler’s title | yaviciu |
| Language: | Nimoicu |
| Religions: | Cuzeian Theism |
Dācuas [da: ku as] was a kingdom of the Nimoicū, a Karazi people closely related to the Cuzeians. In -310 the king of Metayu, Itīrante, divided his realm between himself and his two sons; three years later they conspired to kill him, and three years after that they turned on each other. Soon external enemies intervened: the Kahinisa took over the north, the Caďinorians the upper Svetla.
The central portion of Metayu, including its capital Dunōmeyū, was conquered by the Nimoicu leader Mûstibliciu, who established the kingdom of Dācuas in -290. Mûstibliciu confirmed the estates of any lords who accepted his rule. He also invited the Knowers (Cuzeian priests) back to the kingdom (Itīrante had exiled them). The written language of the kingdom was Cuêzi, and the upper crust spoke it as well; the common people of course continued to speak Nimoicu.
When Cuzei was formed by the union of Eleisa and Tevarē, and cemented by a show of force over Nayas and the free Nimoicū (-240), Dācuas, now ruled by Mûstibliciu’s son Ebūgas, found it expedient to acknowledge Cuzeian sovereignty. This generally involved no more than some tribute, extraterritoriality for Cuzeian merchants, and a cooperative foreign policy.
In -170 king Rûtoxariu died, his only heir being his daughter Rōvole. She happened to be visiting a noble in Uruyas, Sisticiu; he immediately sequestered her and declared that he had married her and that he was the new king. There was talk of war, and a delegation of nobles and Knowers confronted Sisticiu and demanded to speak with Rōvole. She appeared and stated, to the lords’ satisfaction, that she freely accepted Sisticiu as her husband. Sisticiu was then accepted as king— not least because there was no accepted alternative claimant, only remote relatives of Rûtoxariu with few supporters. Sisticiu claimed Inibeigō descent, and renamed the kingdom Metayu, but most people usually continued to call it Dācuas.
In the first century Nayas conquered the kingdom; it regained its independence in 110 when the Nayōre royal family split.
After the Munkhâshi invasion, Caďinorians fleeing the invasion overwhelmed Dunōmeyū (445). Dācuas remained as a minor state, whose chief town was Duvondos on the Meuna; its population was increasingly Caďinorian. A century later, the Cuzeian general Maroūsias, pursuing the unity of Eretald against Munkhâsh above all else, conquered Dācuas and integrated it into Cuzei (590). In 750 the Cuzeian empire split, and the remote Meuna valley towns (Nayas and Duvondos) drifted into independence, now under a Caďinorian dynasty based in the latter city. This little state was absorbed by Aránicer in the late 800s.
| Article begun by Furius, largely rewritten by Zompist |
