Assyria
Assyria (offically The Assyrian Patriarchate) is the home of the Assyrian people. Born from the collapse of the Ottomon Empire during the Great War, the theocratic state has been led by the Patriarch Mar Benyamin XIX Shimun since its inception. However, the Patriarch's days are coming to an end, and with threats from all sides, the young nation would need a strong leader to defend their new found freedom.
Historical Background
OTL History
Old Age Greatness
Starting from the founding of Assur, the City of God Assur, the Assyrian people would grow and spread out into the Nineveh Plains. Eventually they would become a kingdom and then an empire, rising and falling and rising and falling, reaching their greatest height during the Neo-Assyrian Empire during the reign of Ashurbanipal, controlling the the Fertile Crescent and Egypt. But then the Babylonians would rebel, and the Medians would invade. While Assur and Nineveh and the Assyrian people would survive, their time as Kings of the Universe was over.
A New Reality
Moving into the ADs the Assyrians would become one of the early converts to Christianity, becoming a bedrock of the Syriac Christianity and creating various splinter groups as well; Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church (Chaldeans) and Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East (Jacobites) among others. While Christianity would become a deeply important to Assyrians, with time it would also give them additional problems.
Already an ethnic minority, the arrival of Islam, and especially of the Ottoman State, would further increase persecution on the Assyrians. The worse would come at the turn of the century with the massacares in Diyarbakır (1895) and Adana (1909).
RFTL History
The Dark Tunnel and the Light at its End
When the Great War started, the crack down on minorities harshened especially with failures on the Caucasian front. Along with Armenians, the Assyrians would suffer greatly in what became known as the Safyo (lit. Sword) leading to the death of around 250k Assyrians. However during this time, the British would start their advance into the Levant, and the Assyrians under the leadership of Patriarch Mar Shimun XIX Benyamin and other tribal chiefs would come to an agreeement with Entente agents in the area; Assyrian support in the War for British and Russian support for independence. The Assyrian Volunteers forms led by the likes of Agha Petros Elia of Baz would cause trouble for the Ottomans in the Hakkari Mountains, tying up troops away from the front lines.
Further north however, a secondary force for Assyrian independence would form inspired by the revolutionary elements of Russia. In 1917 the Assyrian Socialist Party formed under the leadership Freydun Atturaya (lit. Freydun the Assyrian) and soon after publish the Urmia Manifesto of the United Free Assyria, setting out a clear territorial aims, the establishment of a republic on socialist line, and most critical, the seperation of Church and State. The later would lead to the Patriarch to brand them as anarchists.
A Dream Deferred
With the defeat of the Ottoman State, the Assyrians had hoped to finally receive a free homeland, but would be shocked to find out that the British were planning to unite the the Euphrates Valley in to a single entity, this plan would fail though and the Assyrian and Christians of the area would be given a country of their own under the guidance of the Patriarch, however the whole situation would sour Assyrian-British relationships.
However, for some this was seen as too little. Freydun and the socialists where establishing themselves in Patriarchate but a new, and in some ways old, party would form. The Assyrian Democratic Party would form with Agha Petros at its lead, pushing for mass industrialisation, expansion of the oil industry and an expansion of the borders to meet those of the old Assyrian Empires.
As of 1936 Mar Benyamin is suffering from tuberculosis and while some are still hoping for a recovery, other are preparing for the elevation of Mar Shimun Eshai. Having received a western education, he too plans to modernise the Assyrian homeland while still maintaining the role of the Church, as well as opening up the church to the other christian denominations. As Patriarch Shimun XIX Banyamin's days reach their conclusion, all three parties are preparing themselves for the moment to give Assyria the future it deserves.
Content
Assyria has three routes it can take, Sticking with the new Patriarch, or founding either a Socialist or Nationalist Republic. All three of these paths have expansion options, from simply avenging yourself against the Kurds and securing the Assyrian homeland, to defeating the British imperialists from the Mesopatamia, to revivng the old Assyrian empire itself.
National Focus Tree
Assyria National Focus Tree (Coming soon)
Events
Assyria Events (Coming soon)
Politics
Important Parties
| Party Name | Leader | Ideology | Details | Country Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaba Atturaya Demoqrataya GAD [Assyrian Democratic Party] |
 Agha Petros
|
 National Rejuvenatism
Popularity: 10.00% |
A glorified military clique led by General Agha Petros, the General dreams of ancient glory and expanding Assyria's borders to the days of old empire, backed by mass industrialisation and exploitation of the oil reserves of the Plains for the modern day tanks Petros wishes to ride into Damascus. | Assyrian Republic
End game: Great Assyria (the United Republic of Great Assyria) |
| Gaba Shawtapaya Atturaya GSA [Assyrian Socialist Party] |
 Freydun Atturaya
|
 Nationalist Socialism
Popularity: 15.00% |
The oldest of the political parties, the GSA wishes to give the Assyrian nation a progressive constituion and the Assyrian people the full benfit of socialism, while Freydun prepares the army to fulfill the Urmia Manifesto and give the Assyrian people the home they deserve. | Republic of Assyria |
| Gaba Atturaya Demoqrataya GAD [Assyrian Democratic Party] |
 Agha Petros
|
 Provisional government
Popularity: 10.00% |
Temporary goverment formed after the Republican revolt, will take care of the republic until elections are held. | Assyrian Republic |
| Edta Qaddista wa-slihaita Qatoliqi d-Madenha d-Atoraye EQQMA [Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East] |
 Benyamin XIX Shim
 Shimun XXI Eshai
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 Theocracy
Popularity: 30.00% |
The Church, with Patriarch Benyamin at the head, has been rulling statlet since the beginning. When Patriarch Shimun succeeds Benyamin, and survives the Republican revolt, he will bring the nation into modernity under the Church's guide and open said Church up to the various Christian denominations near and abroad, while preparing for revenge against the Kurds in the north. | Assyria
(the Assyrian Patriarchate) |
Political Advisors
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Laws
| Conscription Law |
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Diplomacy
Assyria is hostile towards Kurdistan and the Ottoman Empire for the years of persecution, with the Safyo in particular being fresh in many peoples minds. At game start, Assyria starts off with cores on the Kurdish lands just north of Assyria in the Hakkari Region. The Republicans are also hostile of the British due to the United Mesopotamia debacle, as well for their own ideological reasons.
The question of friends really changes depending on who you ask. Shimun Essai and the church wishes to strenghten relationships with chiristian nations near and abroad as well with the Yishuv should they win the revolt. The Socialists are friendly both with the Russian Socilaists, the Kavkaz Society specifically, as well as with the Rotfront, with the degree of cooperation depending on the situation. The Nationalists are open to working with France and slightly less so with the Americans, especially as they are warry of foreign control of the oil reserves.
Geography and Industry
Geography
Located in the Middle East, in the Upper Mesopatamia region, specifically on the Nineveh Plains, it's neighbours are the Ottoman State (through Kurdistan), the Shahdom of Persia, the British Empire (through Mandatory Iraq) and the Syrian Republic.
The Tigris river bisects the country, with the terrain starting off as a desert environment in the west, into plains and then the Hakkari mountains. They have a total of Eleven victory points spread out among Three settlements.
| Oil | Aluminium | Rubber | Tungsten | Iron | Chromium |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Industry
Assyria barely has an industry at game start. It can acquire a number of factories through the focus tree, with the Republican banches featuring more factories, and the Nationalist branch featuring a focus on Refineries and Silos.
Assyria starts off with 3 research slots.
| Military Factory | Civilian Factory | Naval Dockyard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 0 |
Military
Army
Your Starting Army consists of a single Infantry, Cavalry and Mountaineer Division. The Infantry and Mountaineer Divisions are made up of 6 battalions of their respective unit while the Cavalry division is made up of 4 battalions. The divisions are low in equipment and more critically, manpower, with the later being a long term problem.
Field Marshals
| Skill | Attack | Defence | Planning | Logistics | Traits | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Malik Khoshaba |
3 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
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Malik (Chief) of the Tyari Tribe Loyal to the Shimun dynasty |
Generals
| Skill | Attack | Defence | Planning | Logistics | Traits | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Agha Petros |
3 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
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Head of the GDA Will be promoted to Field Marshal as part of the Nationalist Republican Tree |
 Dawid Mar Shimun |
2 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
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Brother of Benyamin XIX Shimun Father of Shimun XXI Eshai |
 Malik Qambar |
2 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
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Republican Leaning, being on good terms with both Agha Petros and Freydun Atturaya |
 Shimun XXI Eshai |
2 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
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Becomes available as part of the Patriarch Tree Successor to the current Patriarch |
 Yusuf Malek |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
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Becomes available as part of the Patriarch Tree Used to be the the Conservative Leader of Assyria in Prior versions |
 Freydun Atturaya |
3 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
5 |
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Becomes available as part of the Socialist Republican Tree Head of the GAS |
Technology
- Basic Eq.
- Weapons I
- Early Truck
- Truck
- Support Equipment
- Engineer Company 1
- Recon Company 1
Air Force
Technology
Without the 'By Blood Alone' DLC enabled
- Interwar Fighter
- Close Air Support I
With the 'By Blood Alone' DLC enabled
- Inter-War Small airframe
- Light MG
- Cannon 1
- Bombs
- Engine 1