Tannaea (province)
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Tannaea is a province of Arithia on the southeast coast of Marcasia. It was established with the formation of the republic of Arithia in 1886 CIE, and roughly corresponds to the historical region of Tannaea, the homeland of the Eleena (Tann) people. Of the 12 million inhabitants of the province, however, nearly 5 million are of an ethnicity other than Eleena, a consequence of the historical marginalisation of the Eleena in the region for many years under the rule of the Lazeian Empire and the general impoverishment that ensued after its collapse. The demographic trend in favour of the dusleida population is accentuating as the region starts to become recognised for its proximity to the Issol A'i as well as the major markets of the eastern hemisphere, an advantage boosted by the relatively low price of labour in the province.
Land & climate
The terrain of Tannaea consists of two distinct regions: a relatively flat interior, and a considerably mountainous coastline, each of which occupies approximately half of the province's territory. The province is drained by two major rivers, the Sugai and the Etui, which originate further west in the Iryagi, providing irrigation to the province's farms, and which are subsequently fed by heavy rainfall brought by clouds blown inland from the Denurean Sea by the kapri winds that originate in Istheusia.
History
Politics
After devolution
Contrary to the fears of many dusleida in the province, the Devolution Act of 1979 CIE, when passed, did not add fuel to the brewing regionalism in Tannaea (see Regionalism in Arithia). Whereas predictions had been rife in the media that the province would be set on a slippery slope towards increasing and increasingly forceful demands for independence, and that attitudes towards the non-Eleena in the province would harden—fears that were fanned by the alarmist Tannaean Unionist Party (TII)—the actual passage of bills in the new Tannaean parliament, like the Tannaean Language Act of 1984 CIE, which instituted Tannaean as an official language, actually reduced the nationalist fervour in the province. Since the Devolution Act and its consequent bills, the TII has more or less faded to a shadow of its former rallying might, and is no longer a significant force in either Tannaean or national politics.
