Editing Kabo Geshaan (section)

==History==
Initial human settlement in Kabo Geshaan is believed to have originated in modern-day Kolda. Kolda's scattered city-states were involved in maritime trade with [[Serriel]] as early as the 12th century, with Anjerra serving as a point of trade in textiles, foodstuffs, and enslaved people. This trade also led to the arrival of Islam in Kabo Geshaan, which was largely practiced syncretically alongside traditional animist beliefs. Although Kabo Geshaan was the site of robust international trade during the premodern era, conflict between the city-states and small kingdoms of the various Geshaanian clans was limited in scale, and no major polities emerged. 

In the late 17th century, Costenan seafarers opened trade relations with Kabo Geshaan, as the weakening of the Hanifid Caliphate meant that it was no longer able to prevent its Costenan rival from extending commerce as well as coercive protection agreements to northern Neria. By 1798, these trade expeditions had become war fleets, with the killing of a Costenan army captain by rebels used as a pretext for Kabo Geshaan's formal annexation by the Costenan Empire in 1798. The Costenans valued Kabo Geshaan as a source of agricultural wealth, particularly for cultivation of cotton and sugarcane. The anticolonial rebel Japhet Abdullahi Massawe waged a guerrilla war against the Costenans from 1842 until his defeat in 1857; he is today considered one of Kabo Geshaan's foremost national heroes, and the Geshaanian flag is modeled on his revolutionary flag. The Costenan Empire collapsed in 1876, and in Kabo Geshaan, the remains of the colonial apparatus, aided by Daryan merchants who had begun to dominate the colony's trade successfully reformed as the Kabo Viceroyalty, which governed the nation under a continuation of colonial policies from 1878 to 1907. During this time period, the government was nominally independent but effectively run from the Daryan Legation in Anjerra, as the Kabo Viceroyalty was economically and militarily dependent on Darya. 

In 1907, Darya abandoned its policy of indirect control of Kabo Geshaan and forced the Kabo Viceroyalty to be abolished, with Kabo Geshaan incorporated as a dominion of the Daryan Empire. Direct Daryan rule meant the continuation of harsh colonial policies, along with the growth of a Daryan settler population and the promotion of [[Zindism]] across the colony. By the mid-20th century, anti-colonial agitation swept the colony, with periodic petitions and demonstrations calling for autonomy or independence, which were in turn met with repression by colonial authorities. During the [[Great War]], Kabo Geshaan was a major supplier of goods for the Daryan war effort, and saw an invasion by [[Lehvant|Lehvantine]], [[Serriel|Serrielan]], and [[Brissiac|Brissiacan]] forces, which had defeated Daryan resistance in Kabo Geshaan by 1963. Following the end of the war, Kabo Geshaan was administered as a protectorate by the Coalition powers for ten years, with the intent of allowing the colony to develop domestic industry and prepare for independence. Although founded as a democratic republic, Kabo Geshaan quickly fell to autocratic rule under its first president, Athuman Halifa, who ruled from 1976 until his death in 1995. While Halifa's base of support was in his own Juma clan, the transition in power to General Bernardo Kambi left a weakened regime. In 2002, mass protests over rising food prices and motivated by longstanding frustration over the slow pace of economic development led Kambi to leave office in the bloodless HhB Democratic Revolution, named for the site of the largest confrontation between protesters and soldiers at Anjerra's Handhal Boulevard. A new constitution was subsequently drafted aimed at checking the power of the president and ensuring productive governance through the mandatory three-party system. 

The uncertainty of the political transition led to the growth of radical Zindist nationalism (Zindawla) in Kabo Geshaan's northern hinterlands. Attempting to seize power with the support of local warlords who had flourished under Kambi's rule, the Zindawla militant group Dharm-ke-Sainik (DkS, trans. ''Fighters of Righteousness'') launched a lightning campaign in 2004 aimed at seizing power in Anjerra, which was defeated by clan forces aligned with the federal government. Since 2004, Kabo Geshaan, particularly the rugged north, has been the site of ongoing conflict between Zindawla militants (primarily DkS, but also the smaller Venkata Dal terror group) and government forces. The Kabo War has varied in intensity and geographic reach, but has had numerous negative effects on Kabo Geshaan's development and economy. International peacekeeping contingents, largely hailing from other Nerian nations, have at several times intervened in the country in hopes of providing security.