Aurora:Greece

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Greece is a European nation in the Mediterranean. It's capital is the City of Athens. Greece was the 33rd nation to be created on Aurora, making it one of Aurora's earliest and oldest nations.

History

Founding

On a fateful morning before the opening of Terra Aurora; users Rollins, Alzxdnr and Ju2nananas came together to form a nation on the new server. Because Rollins was Greek irl, the idea to form Greece was born. They gathered their friends to join their pursuit of an empire, fending off the other groups who had shown interest in forming their own government in the Greek region. The three leaders worked hard with their citizens to form Greece as soon as the server opened, and the nation of Greece was founded on May 5th, 2022. The nation capital was made in Delphi, the town which would become the current Athens. At its founding, Greece held three towns, each held by one of the founding leaders: Delphi, Athens (later deleted with Delphi taking its name) and Crete, with Crete being the oldest of the three towns.

Development

Over the coming months, Greece would develop to become one of the largest and most active nations in Aurora. On the 8th of May, one of Greece's founding leaders, Alzxdnr, was banned from the server for alleged homophobia. However, despite this setback, Greece continued expanding, with both the capital Delphi and Crete expanding at a rapid rate. Along with this, new towns were founded in Greece, most notably Naxos, led by OBILderHurtige and Thessaloniki led by greekenderman. On the 22nd of May, Greece surpassed the 1000 chunk milestone, becoming the 7th largest nation on Aurora at the time. Greece would continue expanding, with towns such as Sparta, and Alexandreia joining the nation.

Conflicts

Before establishing Greece, a player named MLGTerra created the town of Sparta with his own group, Seaterrica. One of Greece's founding members Alzxdnr had planned to establish Sparta themselves, which started the first of many conflicts between the two groups. Prior to the nations founding, Greece and Seaterrica settled their differences, outlining claim agreements that divided the land within Greece. Following Greece's founding, Seaterrica and its Greek towns were invited to the nation, with an agreement between the two groups made, where MLGTerra would become a defacto leader of Greece, who would oversee the Seaterrican towns in the nation and work in collaboration with Rollins and Ju2nananas

Over the coming months, tensions began to flare up again between the two parties. Seaterrica's organised expansion began to break the claim agreements established between the two parties. Along with this, internal conflicts began to arise within the nation, with a disorganised democratic structure leading to questions of which group should have authority over the Greek nation. Conflicts between the two groups were also flared by Greece's more radical members such as greekenderman and his associates. In July of 2022, Seaterrican members asserted that they believed they were the rightful leaders of Greece, and gave Greece's leaders an ultimatum: to give the nation to MLGTerra or else Seaterrica and its Greek towns would split from Greece, creating a separate nation. Greece's leadership refused this and so on July the 3rd, Byzantium was founded, with MLGTerra's Sparta being the capital. Over the following month, relations grew more hostile between Byzantium and Greece, with Byzantium residents hunting Greek players in the wilderness. On the 24th of July, Greece declared war on Byzantium.

One of the major factors of Seaterrica's departure from Greece was greekenderman, one of the nations town owners and a radical member of the Greece community.