Okiami

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Okiami
-650 - -277
Native:	Okiami
Verdurian:	Ocayami
Characteristics
Capital:	Dunōmeyū,Nayas
Government:	Monarchy
Ruler’s title	melaȟ
Language:	Met'aiun
Religions:	Met'aiun Paganism

Okiami is the name of a kingdom of the Monkhayic peoples, founded about -650. Its capital was originally Dunōmeyū. It may have grown out of an earlier Met'aiun kingdom around Lake Como. The kingdom controlled the confluence of the Meuna and the Upper Svetla.

The Cuzeians invaded the kingdom in -375. According to the Count of Years they defeated the King of Okiami, Balūniu, at the Battle of Dunōmeyū, defeating a force of fifty thousand, Balūniu's entire army. Balūniu's forces were arranged as a mass of spearmen in lines ten men deep, in the centre of the plain south of Dunōmeyū, with archers in the hills at the sides of the plains. The Cuzeian forces outflanked the spearman and attacked their rear.

Balūniu escaped to Nayas, which became the new capital of Okiami. Around -360 (Shortly before the conquest of Davur), the Cuzeian Duke Îcemēgro, attempted to conquer this too but he was defeated due to the treachery of his brother Itīrante.

In -277, the Cuzeians of Eleisa and Tevarē attacked Okiami, which was under the rule of Xarinen, who met the Cuzeian forces in the Battle of Rêstirōpas and was defeated. Okiami was conquered by the Cuzeian forces and reformed as Nayas under the Cuzeian Xrāticūnas.

Author: Furius