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Clodya, officially The Clodyan Empire, is a country in Southeast Europe and Northeastern Middle East, stretching across Northeast Mediterranean and Southern Black Sea. In Europe it borders Caranthania, Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine and Wallachia while in the Middle East it borders Georgia, Armenia, Kurdistan and Syria. It also has the territory of Bermuda, far away in North Atlantic Ocean. Clodya's capital and largest city is Carigrad (Constantinople) with about 5,2 million people, the second largest city being Solun (Thessaloniki) 1,6 million people. Clodya has a population of 75 million people. The official languages are Clodyan and Hellenic with Clodyan being the preferred language of all official life. The Clodyan Empire's official religion is Dazhbogism but regardless Clodya has a partial freedom of religion, banning only the religions of Islam and Judaism while permitting all else.
Clodya as a national identity came into existence through gradual adoption of Hellenic and Roman customs into the Pomeranian nation that came to rule over the remnants of what used to be Byzantine Empire in 1446.
Clodya as a state was also a gradual process but most important moments of it's statehood and sovereignty can be pinpointed to 1446 AD and 1641 AD. The first date is when the former Pomeranian King Philip III crowned himself as Clodyan Tsar Philip I, signifying his distinction from the title “Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans” which was granted to his nephew Alexander II. The “Clodyan” in Philip I's title was meant to suggest that his power and authority came from his royal descent from the semi-legendary Klod (Clod) The Conqueror and that he was the ruler of the Pomeranian people who also descend from Klod, however it over time became the name of the lands and the state which were once the Byzantine Empire. The second date (1641 AD) is when Emperor Tvrtko I abolished the system of Clodyan and Eastern Roman dual monarchy which marks the start of a centralised unitary Clodyan Empire. The emperors would still continue to hold the title of “Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans” to the modern day but the title of a "Clodyan Tsar" is used considerably more often
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