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The Wars of the Empire (1400-present day Parbhani)
« on: January 20, 2021, 01:14:20 PM »
The Empire of Parbhani is today made up of the Kingdom of Parbhani and 10 Kingdoms that have all been brought under the guidance of The Maharajadhiraja. While many of these are of little significance in the Annals of History the tales of their glorious conquest need to be recorded.

1. The Conquest of Khayla (1400-1452)

2. The Penchi War (1481-1488)

3. The Ambeh Crusade(1589-1603)

4. The Mora Revolution (1733-1750)

5. The Conquest of Thaska (1776-1791)

6. The Khudana War (1814-1822)

7. The Bhankala Massacre War (1856)

8. The Great Mavi Kalan War (1922-1941)

9. The War of Dewala (1962-1964)

10. The Topri Conflict (2018 - now)


 

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Re: The Wars of the Empire (1400-present day Parbhani)
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2021, 01:19:42 PM »
The Conquest of Khayla (1400-1452)

Khayla came under the rule of Parbhani in 1452 following several decades of conflict. King Jafar II believed he was destined to unite Mundus under his rule and as such launched an invasion of the neighbouring Kingdom of Khayla. Jafar II failed in his ambition dying in 1422. His campaign was continued by his son Jafar III who died at the gates of the Khayla capital meaning it was his successor, King Amin III who completed the victory bringing Khayla under his command. In order to bring the new Kingdom under control Amin III had every member of the royal family executed with the exception of the Khayla's Queen who was now a widow who Amin took as his forth wife.



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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2021, 01:31:17 PM »
The Penchi War (1481-1488)

Penchi was a Kingdom that had vast supplies of silver in their hillside. The King of Parbhani at the time was King Abdollah II who received word that Penchi had dispatched envoys to other nearby Kingdoms to explore alliances against Parbhani. As such Abdollah sent his own envoy to Penchi to pursue peace this however was rejected and the envoy was killed on his ride home following an ambush. Modern historians believe this may have been by local bandits rather than the Penchi King's men. Regardless of who committed the ambush it gave Abdollah an excuse to pre-emptively attack Penchi. The conquest saw initial success by Parbhani however as Ambeh and Mora joined forces with Penchi it saw Parbhani pushed back into its own borders. There were several years of back and forth until King Abdollah II handed over control of his military due to ill health to his son Prince Mansoor who proved an excellent military commander. Mansoor accepted the surrender of those forces against him and allowed the leaders of Ambeh and Mora to return home if they executed the King of Penchi and his family with the exception of the Queen. Having witnessed these executions he took the Queen back to Parbhani were she was forced to marry King Abdollah II.

Two months after the victory King Abdollah made his son Mansoor the Rai (King) of Penchi and had him pay tribute each year to his father. King Abdollah also made his son and namesake Abdollah  the Samrat of Khayla also being made to pay annual tribute. From this point forward the King of Parbhani used the title Maharajadhiraja.

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Re: The Wars of the Empire (1400-present day Parbhani)
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2021, 02:17:01 PM »
The Ambeh Crusade(1589-1603)

In 1589 the King of Ambeh refused to pay any tribute to the Maharajadhiraja who at this time was Shahriar II, the King also proclaimed that Shahriar was not a God. As a result Shahriar sent a demand of the King to hand over his eldest son for execution or face war. Being a demand that Shahriar knew could not be complied with war started soon after. Parbhani armies soon began pushing back Ambeh's forces and every settlement that was conquered was given the chance to swear an oath of loyalty to Shahriar and affirm his divinity through an offering (records show his commanders would have accepted even a single grain of rice as an offering). Those who refused were harshly punished with death by sawing if male, impalement if female and children were buried alive. It is not known exactly how many died but historians estimate between 150,000-200,000 people.

Eventually in 1603 Shahriar's forces reached the capital of Ambeh and laid siege. The people fearing harsh punishment rounded up their own royal family and threw them from the city walls and allowed Shahriar to enter. While he was pleased that the city had capitulated he was upset that they had killed their Queen as he had intended to marry her. As a result he ordered that 1 in every 100 of the residents be given a gold purse of significant value to reward them for opening the city gates but that 1 in every 200 was to be thrown from the city walls for regicide.

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Re: The Wars of the Empire (1400-present day Parbhani)
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2021, 09:32:59 PM »
The Mora Revolution (1733-1750)

In 1733 the people of Mora began a Revolution against their monarch King Varghese. Taking advantage of this Maharajadhiraja Ratan IV launched his own attack on Mora turning the conflict in the small Kingdom into a three way conflict. The war went through various stages as at various times the three sides paired up against the other or held uneasy peaces while fights between two nations continued. In the end the Parbhanians were victrious after an assassin removed King Mora's (who was now deceased) son, King Anil. Once Anil was dead the Kingdom of Mora was handed to a six year old monarch causing further infighting among the nobles over who should be regent. This saw the war ended a year later and Maharajadhiraja Ratan IV was victorious. As the now seven year old monarch of Mora was unmarried Maharajadhiraja Ratan IV had him marry a young Parbhani noblewoman and immediatley following the wedding ceremony had the child King beheaded before just an hour later marrying the noblewoman himself thus being able to claim to have married the Queen of Mora. 

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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2021, 10:21:14 PM »
The Conquest of Thaska (1776-1791)

In 1776  Maharajadhiraja Kailash II faced problems as a smallpox epidemic hit the Empire. With Thaska being the Kingdom from which the pox entered Parbhani the  Maharajadhiraja informed the Priesthood to spread stories of it being sent by Thaska to weaken the Empire. Kailash II was eager to be known as a great military leader and soon people began to believe that revenge against Thaska was necessary. He launched an invasion in the winter of 1776 and his armies moved swiftly to capture several key towns. One issue however was that Thaska is made up of several narrow valley's which Thaska was able to fortify meaning the war turned into one of attrition. With superior resources and manpower Kailash was able to slowly force his way into Thaska before dying in 1788. Initially his son Nilam V agreed an end of hositilities with Thaska however in 1789 their King began manouvering to reclaim the Kingdom and so Nilam V sent a huge force to finish them off. At the battle of Silanwad the Thaskan King was slain in battle and that afternoon having heard news of the approaching Parbhanian Army his Queen committed suicide and their children ran into exile. One of those who went into exile was Princess Jasvinder who ran away to Khudana.  Nilam V had heard great tales of her beauty and instructed the Kingdom of Khudana to hand her over to him or he would invade. Princess Jasvinder willingly submitted herself to marrying Nilam V in order to save Khudana from the prospect of war.

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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2021, 10:31:27 PM »
The Khudana War (1814-1822)

In 1814 the Kingdom of Khudana saw the death of King Rishi with no heirs there began conflict between several of his cousins over who should inherit the throne. Taking advantage of this chaos Maharajadhiraja Harshad I launched his own invasion of Khudana territory and initially seemed content to only take roughly 1/4 of the Kingdom. As the various cousins began to surrender to each other and their civil war calmed down more attention was turned to the Parbhani invasion. Harshad I attempted to negotiate a peace with the various factions however was unsuccessful and following a failed assassination attempt on him he determined his only course of action was to invade the rest of Khudana and so in 1820 the full scale invasion began.

In 1822 Harshad had defeated all those who claimed the throne. In the past Prabhani's Maharajadhiraja who had conquered a nation in battle claimed their territory by marrying a widowed Queen thereby giving, at least on the surface, the Maharajadhiraja the right to be King of that territory and thus add it to the Empire. In this case though that was not possible and so Harshad simply proclaimed that Khudana no longer existed and that it had always been Parbhani territory.

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« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2021, 11:03:24 PM »
The Bhankala Massacre War (1856)

Bhankala stands as the smallest holding within the Empire and is nothing more than an old city with surrounding agriculture. Bhankala though did feature several shrines to the God Varchas and as such on certain days large numbers of pilgrims from the Empire would travel there. In 1856 however a fight broke out in the city between some pilgrims and the locals which saw the King of Bhankala step in and execute 10 Parbhanians. The next day caravans of Pilgrims were further attacked seeing around 400 people murdered in the course of the next few days. Hearing of this an aging  Maharajadhiraja Amrit IV sent his son Prince Amrit to seek revenge. It took the Prince just three weeks to subdue the city and execute the King and his family with the exception of the King's youngest wife. As Prince Amrit and the Bhankalan Queen Anviah journeyed back to Parbhani for her to marry the Maharajadhiraja it is told that the two royals fell in love and that when the Queen Anviah, who had now married the Maharajadhiraja, gave birth nine months later the child was infact Prince Amrit's. It was this child, Lalit who in 1861 would become Maharajadhiraja when Amrit IV died. Until Lalit turned 12 years of age in 1868 his suspected father ruled as Regent. On the day Lalit took the throne Prince Amrit and Queen Anviah both disappeared and where never seen again. Some suspect that they ran away together while some believe that Lalit had them murdered.


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« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2021, 11:25:11 PM »
The Great Mavi Kalan War (1922-1941)

In 1922 the Kingdoms of Mavi and Kalan signed a treaty agreeing that they would stand together against Parbhani should it ever pose a threat. In August of that year it was discovered that the King of Mavi, Pran II, had been behind an attempt to assassinate the Parbhani Royal Family. The Maharajadhiraja at the time was Amrit VI and he sent a demand to Kalan to break off their alliance. This demand tipped Mavi off that the plot had been discovered and that an attack was probably soon to be launched and so with their military already on standby to take advantage of chaos the Maharajadhiraja's death would cause they invaded the Empire followed closely by Kalan and the two nations made great inroads claiming the territory of Bhankala and part of Khudana. In 1925 Dewala and Topri also entered the war against the Empire which then saw the Empire fall back losing the whole of Khudana. With his military on the back foot Maharajadhiraja Amrit VI negotiated a ceasefire which would see Bhankala and half of Khudana handed over to the enemy in return for an end of hostilities. Kalan, Dewala and Topri accepted this arrangement however Mavi did not and so the war reduced to a simple Mavi V's Parbhani conflict which saw Mavi pushed steadily back into their own territory.

In 1929 Prabhani had reclaimed all territory lost to Mavi and it seemed that the war was likely to end however in that year the King of Kalan married his daughter to the Prince of Mavi and six weeks later King Pran II of Mavi died to be succeeded by King Ramji I. The new Mavi King was able to persuade his father-in-law to rejoin the conflict and so break the ceasefire. By now Parbhani was on the front foot and utilising its larger military soon began to reclaim even more lost territory. Fearing that they too would be targetted Dewala and Topri also joined the conflict again however by utilizing a tactic of holding three nations in a stalemate and combating one other the Empire finally retook the whole of Bhankala and Khudana in 1938.

In 1938 Maharajadhiraja Amrit VI died and was succeeded by Pankaj II who immediatley offered a ceasefire which was accepted and held until 1940. In that same year the King's of Dewala and Topri signed a peace agreement with Pankaj II ending their involvement in the war. It took Pankaj II a further 12 months to defeat Mavi and Kalan and bring them under his control. The Royal Family of Mavi fled to Dewala while Pankaj had the royals of Kalan imprisoned and put on trial for breaking oaths. Pankaj sentenced all 12 adult members of the family to death, the males by firing squad the females by garrote. The child members of the Royal family were given to farmers in Parbhani with the exception of 10 year old Princess Swarna who was forced to marry Pankaj II on her 16th birthday.

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« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2021, 11:36:40 PM »
The War of Dewala (1962-1964)

As part of the agreement to end the war with Dewala in 1940 it was agreed that a strip of land in Dewala would become the property of Parbhani for the next 100 years. On April 3rd 1962 the nation of Dewala saw a revolution which ousted their monarchy before executing them a week later. Initially Maharajadhiraja Venkat II did not interfere despite requests from Royalists in Dewala and the advice of his own council. On the 7th of May 1962 however a militia force of Dewalan's intent on reclaiming the territory handed over in the peace-treaty of 1940 occupied a series of police stations across the region. Venkat II issued an ultimatum for the forces to leave within 48 hours and release their hostages however the dead line arrived and the militia executed 17 Police-Officers. On the 11th of May 1962 the Imperial Armed Forces crossed into the region en-mass and retook the territory. During this operation however armed forces from Dewala opened fire upon the Imperial military. Some historians believe this was done because the soldiers had sympathies with the militia while others think the Republican government of Dewala believed an invasion was underway. Following the death of 22 Imperial soldiers during this operation, with 12 coming from actions taken by the Dewala Republican military Venkat demanded compensation in the form of a further strip of land, an extension of ownership on the current territory held from Dewala and a significant amount of reparations. The Republicans counter-offered with a 50 year extension however Venkat refused this. As a result of the break down between the two nations Venkat ordered a full invasion and on the 6th May 1964 accepted the surrender of the Republican military. His first action was to reinstate the former King's cousin, Princess Lina as the new Queen of Dewala and on the 8th of May 1964 the now Queen Lina married Venkat thus adding Dewala to the Empire.

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« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2021, 12:11:00 AM »
The Topri Conflict (2018 - now)

The Mamroda River stands on the border between the territory of Dewala and the Kingdom of Topri however throughout history both sides have claimed full ownership of the Valley it sits in. In 1876 Dewala and Topri signed an agreement that the river would forever mark the border between their two nations. When in 1964 Dewala became part of the Empire of Parbhani the then Maharajadhiraja, Venkat II, sent emissaries to Topri stating that he intended to abide by the agreement that had been signed between Dewala and Topri in 1876. Between 1964 and 2016 there have always been numerous issues between groups in the area and this lead to several short conflicts the longest of which was in 1988 and lasted four days with around 80 soldiers killed on each side. Despite these frequent skirmishes the border remained intact and relations between the Empire and the Kingdom were best described as rocky.

In 2016 the valley became a hot spot again when the new King of Topri demanded that a hydro-electric dam be built on the river. With the Mamroda River providing vital irrigation to Dewala this was refused by Maharajadhiraja Krishnaraja as to do so would threaten several million people's farms. In 2017 however the King of Topri, Tushar II, began construction of a small dam in a valley contained fully within Topri in which a large feeder river of the Mamroda was located. This angered Parbhani as it would naturally impact their own water supplies. In late 2017 Maharajadhiraja Krishnaraja travelled to Topri in person to meet with King Tushar II to negotiate an agreement. This failed and as the Maharajadhiraja returned to Parbhani his convoy was attacked and he was taken hostage for ten minutes before members of his Special Forces Rapid Response Unit freed him. Two prisoners were taken in the action and Parbhani intelligence showed that despite still being in Topri territory no local forces came to aid the Maharajadhiraja. The two prisoners were taken back across the border into Parbhani and were confirmed to be members of the Topri military. Within 24 hours of their arrest and detention being made public the King of Topri demanded their release. The Maharajadhiraja refused and instead placed them on trial for his attempted murder. On December 19th 2017 the two men were found guilty and sentenced to death, a day later there was a failed attack on the prison they were being held in which was suspected to have been carried out by Topri Special Forces however no one was ever arrested for this.

On the 16th January 2018 the executions of the two prisoners was carried out. Later that day people in Topri, fired up by King Tushar II, stormed the Parbhani Embassy and despite Parbhani security managing to evacuate the building and get all staff to safety there were images in the news of the embassy property being carried off by locals and several individuals showing news reporters the various documents they had found. Thankfully for Parbhani these were not Classified and merely showed such things as letters of congratulations at the birthdays of Imperial Family or requisition forms for office supplies. The nature of the documents however was not the concern of Maharajadhiraja Krishnaraja but rather the fact his embassy staff had been in danger. A day later the Embassy was set on fire with an effigy of the Maharajadhiraja Krishnaraja and his three wives being thrown into the flames. The Maharajadhiraja demanded action by King Tushar II who instead of responding sent the Maharajadhiraja a bill for smoke damage caused to neighbouring buildings. Incensed by this Parbhani Special Forces infiltrated Topri to rescue the hiding embassy staff. This operation was discovered and while all members of the embassy and the rescue team managed to escape King Tushar II demanded the Special Forces soldiers be handed over as terrorists. This saw the two nations forces go onto high alert and then on the evening of 23rd January 2018 forces at the border begin exchanging gunfire with no order from above. At 5:30 am on the 24th January 2018 the Topri Air Force fired several Air to Ground missiles at border defence points in a prelude to launching a cross border operation. This was repulsed and later that day air strikes were carried out on key targets across Topri by the Imperial Air Force sparking a full blown conflict between the Empire and Topri.

Over the last two and a bit years forces from Parbhani have pressed into Topri and utilising the fact that Topri is landlocked and can not get supplies in other than by air and the fact the Imperial military is much larger the war seems inevitably lost for Topri. There have been sporadic ceasefires during the conflict as Imperial Forces allow civilians to leave combat zones and attempts at finding a permanent peace are found however it now seems Parbhani will only cease the conflict on conditions that would at best see Topri become some kind of vassal or at worse become a full part of the Empire. On the 26th December 2020 a 30 day ceasefire was agreed to allow refugees to be provided with food and shelter. During this Maharajadhiraja Krishnaraja offered to allow King Tushar II and his family to leave Topri and give his people the choice via a referendum of becoming part of the Empire or selecting one of Krishnaraja's son to be their new King. This offer was refused and it is not yet known what will happen after the 30 day agreement is reached.