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Added concrete lore stuff: Republic of Anahuac, Southern Tussenland Revolution, Independence. Now left to figure out is post-independence Southern Tussenland.
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== History ==
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Before the arrival of Europeans, the region of what is now the country of South Tussenland was inhabited by Native Americans for many millenia. The first European explorers to visit South Tussenland came in 1528 when a Spanish expedition led by Pánfilo de Narváez located the mouth of the Mississippi River. Two decades later, an expedition by Hernando de Soto skirted the northern region of South Tussenland and followed the Mississippi River arriving at the Gulf of Mexico in 1543. Although they were the first to explore and chart the area, the Spanish lost colonial interest in the region over the next decades.
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In the late 16th century, Dutch explorer Cornelis Jacobszoon van Duvenvoorde Opdam was hired by the Dutch West India Company and led an expedition from the Dutch Tussenland Colony to find a route to the Pacific, following the Ohio River and then down the Mississippi River. He claimed the land around the river for the company and named it the Dutch Possessions on the Mississippi (Amerikaens: Nederlands Besittingen ter Misisibie) (although the country of [[Opdamsland]] formed in 1903 would be posthumously named after him). Along the journey halfway into present-day South Tussenland came an escort of Chitimacha Indians who Opdam had befriended. Opdam reached the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1679.
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The territory of modern day South Tussenland was part of the charters given to the Dutch West India Company (in 1700) and then later the Royal Tussenland Company (in 1817). In the 17th century, the Southern Tussenland became one of the largest importers of African slaves, to work the sugarcane and cotton plantations.
[[File:Southern Tussenland in 1850.png|alt=|left|thumb|282x282px|Southern Tussenland in 1850 with modern-day borders in red.]]
The 19th century saw tensions increasing between the slaves and the Dutch minority.
==== Republic of Anahuac (1812-1817) ====
▲=== 18th Century ===
In 1812, Dutch filibusters started settling the regions west of the official boundaries of Southern Tussenland, in hopes that the Kingdom of the Netherlands would annex them. They established a short-lived republic called the Republic of Anahuac. This was in violation of the borders settled in Treaty of Vienna in 1755. However, the issue was settled in 1817 when Spain decided to sell the Anahuac strip to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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The Royal Tussenland Company (established 1817) was the successor of the defunct Dutch West India Company, which was disbanded in 1815 after financial troubles during the French Revolutionary Wars. The scope of the Royal Tussenland Company was smaller in scope than the Dutch West India Company, focusing only on the North American territory. The Royal Tussenland Company took over the operation of plantations in the South, as well as constructed new plantations in the northern part of the region. The taking over of the RTC saw the importation of more slaves.
==== South Tussenland Revolution (1849) and
Tensions between the slaves and the Dutch ruling minority was at an high in 1840. The Royal Tussenland Company practiced harsh treatment towards the slaves, causing a lot of slaves to either die, flee to the Spanish colonies, or hide in maroon communities. However, a huge majority of slaves suffered under the Royal Tussenland Company's rule. A unique Dutch creole culture had evolved in the region. In the midst of the [[2nd Dutch-Spanish War]], Tussenland saw a slave insurrection beginning to form in the south, spearheaded by a "prophet" who had claimed to be sent by God to liberate the slave-population of southern Tussenland. A religious movement soon formed in southern Tussenland, named the Church of the Second Ascension. To undermine the Dutch, Spain had supported this slave insurrection. The southern region declared independence officially as the United Gemeenten (religious communities) of South Tussenland (Dutch: ''Verenigde Gemeenten van Zuyd Tussenlandt''), led by the ex-slave prophet [[Abayomi van Tussenlandt]]. Spain was the first nation to recognize this new nation.
The newly independent Southern Tussenland in 1850 supported the Spanish against the Dutch during the duration of the war.
=== Post-Independence (1855-present) ===
== Government and politics ==
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