Pitrat

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Pitrat
299 - 384
Native:	ancient Pitrat, modern Pitra
Verdurian:	Pitra
Characteristics
Capital:	Pitrat
Government:	senatorial (usampas)
Ruler’s title	none; protectorate
Language:	Old Skourene
Religions:	Skourene paganism

Pitrat [ˈpit ɽat], though never truly independent, was one of the oldest cities in the Littoral, an early colony of Gasibur, which was the cause of the first internecine war in Skouras. Previously, the Skourenes had been united in an unwritten mutual non-aggression pact referred to as pkmeḍ, a tacit agreement that trade was more profitable than warfare. However, this first conflict was caused by the desire for profit as well— specifically, that of Sundu of Imuṭeli, who attempted to levy tolls on Gasibur's access to the sea. Gasibur was outraged, and refused to pay. Sundu was not willing to lose face by backing down, so he declared war. Other states barred him from reaching Gasibur proper, but it besieged and captured Pitrat in 245.

After the defeat of Epuneka of Imuṭeli in 299, Pitrat was liberated. None of the allies wanted to hand its prize to another or simply grant it independence, and the city became an open port under the 'protection' of its liberators— Engidori, Miligenḍi and Iṭili, whose claim was later taken over by Ṭisuram (354). In spite of this, the city was allowed to maintain its own senate.

In 380, Pitrat was again the fulcrum for a Skouras-wide war, when it took sides in a long-standing conflict between the ugaşras or 'strong governor' and the usampas or senatorial systems of government. Its senate rejected Engidorid authority by declaring it would have no usampara protectors, which effectively made it an autonomous region of Ṭisuram. When the Ṭisuramanda sent troops into the city in 382, Guṭḷeli made good on its threat of invasion and captured the city two years later, definitively ending its brief independence.

• Captured by Miligenḍi in Quadrilateral War, ending 418
• occupied by Guṭḷeli 765 starting a new war, which awarded it to Kolatimand (786)
• rebelled along with Kuḷiŋibor in 812
• occupied by Axunai 1190 during plague years
• Iṭili conquered the city in 1318
• Taken by Peligi 1554
• Conquered by Tžuro after battle of Ṭisutra, 1712

Etymology: Old Skourene Pitrat 'you (f.) answered', Uṭandal Pitra; Tžuro Pisčat

Author: Yebi