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===History=== | ===History=== | ||
In 410, the Gothic king [ | In 410, the Gothic king [[w:Alaric_I|Alaric]] sacked [[w:Sack_of_Rome_(410)|Rome]]. That year was an astonishing victory for all Goths. However, [[w:Alaric_I|Alaric]] died that same year due to a hunting accident. The Goths were left without a suitable king, and they began to fracture into petty bickering. Almost none of the tribes wanted to leave the lush Roman Empire, and neither did they want to fight the Emperor. However, the Simmeck tribe, led by their chief [[w:Wallia|Wallia]], decided to abandon the Roman Empire. The year that the Simmecks left, the Roman general [[w:Constantius_III|Constantius]] crushed the remaining Goths, and all that were left were the men of [[w:Wallia|Wallia]]'s armies. | ||
Soon after, Constantius became emperor and permitted the Simmecks to live north of Moesia. They acted as the first line of defense against the Huns. They lived in relative peace, and the Romans promised to not bother them. Around 440, the invasion of the Huns forced out the Simmecks all the way to the Rhine. They formed an alliance with the Alemanni and in 451, alongside the Romans, they defeated the Huns at the [ | Soon after, [[w:Constantius_III|Constantius]] became emperor and permitted the Simmecks to live north of [[w:Moesia|Moesia]]. They acted as the first line of defense against the [[w:Huns|Huns]]. They lived in relative peace, and the Romans promised to not bother them. Around 440, the invasion of the [[w:Huns|Huns]] forced out the Simmecks all the way to the Rhine. They formed an alliance with the [[w:Alemanni|Alemanni]] and in 451, alongside the Romans, they defeated the Huns at the [[w:Battle_of_the_Catalaunian_Plains|Battle of the Catalaunian Plains]]. [[w:Wallia|Wallia]] died in the battle, and [[w:Theodoric_I |Theodoric]] rose to power. | ||
After the battle, the [ | After the battle, the [[w:Pope_Leo_I |Pope Leo I]] converted [[w:Theodoric_I |Theodoric]] from [[w:Arianism|Arianism]] to [[w:Nicene_Christianity|Nicene Christianity]]. He appointed [[w:Theodoric_I |Theodoric]] on a holy mission, citing it to be a revelation given to him by God. The Simmecks were to be the guards of the Christendom. He told them to move north and to establish a church there, to defend Rome and the Christian world. | ||
[ | [[w:Theodoric_I |Theodoric]] agreed to follow the word of the Pope, and he moved his kingdom east. They settled on the [[w:Elbe|Elbe]] and [[w:Warta|Warta]]. He also adopted the name ''Fīnēs Rōmae'' (The borders of Rome). As a thanks, the Romans sent their best architects to design places for the Simmecks to live. They built them massive Roman [[w:Castra|castra]] and sent their best scholars. Somewhere around the Dark Ages, the Latin name dropped and instead the Old Mergian name ''Rumi marga'' stuck. That name evolved to the word ''Rommerg'' which is where the word ''Mergian'' comes from. | ||
Nearby Slavic peoples mixed with the Rommergians, which imported a lot of Slavic influence into the language. | |||
As Europe fell into the Dark Ages, the Rommergian Kingdom fell into decline and fractured into many shattered duchies. Throughout the Middle Ages, the Rommergian duchies and city-states aligned themselves with the Holy Roman Empire. This was a source of many German and Latin borrowings. The Rommergians were a very bookish people, thanks to all the libraries built by the Romans in antiquity. This was another source of Latin and Greek influence. | |||
When Napoleon invaded Rommerg, he established the sister republics of the Cisoderene and the Transoderene (based off [[w:Oder|Oder River]]). Once Napoleon had been defeated, the former Duke of Plebja was elected King and a united Rommerg marked the maps of Europe for the first time in centuries. Many people began to consider Napoleon's invasion to have been a blessing in disguise and French culture began to influence Rommerg. This newfound [[w:Francophilia|Francophilia]] influenced many modern loanwords into the Mergian language. | |||
It is important to note that there is no documented "Old Mergian" language. It is simply used as a catch-all term for the language spoken before Modern Mergian. | It is important to note that there is no documented "Old Mergian" language. It is simply used as a catch-all term for the language spoken before Modern Mergian. | ||