Nilo-Gordas

Nilo-Gordas, better known as the Republic of Nilo-Gordas, is a CCRP country in Occidentalis Major, run by @BellatriX_Is_ME.

Before the Niloan-Gordasi Split: the Niloan Wanderers to the Niloan Empire
The Niloans were originally wanderers, wandering over the coastal plains of southern Occidentalis Major. They avoided the mountains like the plague, knowing they were full of dangerous animals they were not equipped to deal with. The Niloans, instead, focused on the ocean and the animals on the plains, becoming master fishers and hunters.

At around 2000 BCE, the Niloans began farming, finally settling down. It is unclear exactly how power went from hand to hand, but circa 1500 BCE, the Niloan Kingdom was established.

The Kingdom was peaceful for about 200 years, in which the Niloan culture flourished and trade was developed - tentatively - with the mountain people (now almost extinct).

Then came Geornos Leví, a farmer displeased with the current monarch. He raised his own army and overthrew the final Niloan king, and declared Nilo - as they had named their land - an empire, making himself Emperor Geornos I (there were 5 emperors named Geornos).

The Niloan Empire lasted 1200 years, until 1 CE, when the family and friends of Rico Gordas declared themselves as "other."

The Niloan-Gordasi Split
Rico Gordas had never agreed with the Niloan emperor, and had always considered himself a "rebel." Throughout his life, he'd shared his philosophies with his friends and family, and once Rico was 45 and his oldest son was 25, the Gordas family (plus friends and people who generally agreed with their philosophy) declared itself independent, thus creating two groups: the 10 million-strong Niloan Empire, and 1,000 Gordasi.

For 50 years, the Nilo and Gordasi maintained an uneasy peace, and many Niloans joined the Gordasi.

In 51 CE, though, a conference meant to create a permanent peace between the two went horribly wrong, and war was declared between the two nations.

The Nilo-Gordas War (The Bi-Millenium War)
While the actual war between the two nations only lasted 3 years, tensions were high all the way until PRA Colonization, lasting almost two thousand years.

There were no real borders between them, either, so fighting over territory was common, often over plots of land as small as an acre.

As weapons were primitive then, most fights were hand-to-hand or with knives, and tended to be deadly.

Nilo was at a true stalemate, and millions died. From an original population of 50,000,000 (505 CE), the population dropped to 3,000,000 (1800 CE).

But then, the PRA invaded.

PRA Colonization
Under the leadership of the PRA, speaking the Niloan language and following Niloan customs became illegal, and 1,000 were killed for it. It was under this leadership that the Niloans and the Gordasi began to band together, and on May 30th, 1890, the first successful formal alliance between the Nilo and the Gordasi was signed, effectively ending the Bi-Millenium war.

With the alliance, though, came more rebellion, and thousands more were killed, though some by the Scourge.

While the Nilo and the Gordasi were mostly untouched by WW1, they suddenly found their PRA masters gone, and themselves no longer at war.

Thus, the Republic of Nilo-Gordas was born.