Editing Serriel (section)

===Industrialization===
In 1780, traders from the then-French colony of Terre-Haute (present-day [[Laeral]] and [[High Fells]]) established a trade settlement along the coast, where they traded with the Suhar. Throughout the 1800s, foreign traders hailing from [[Laeral]], [[Shuell]], [[Darya]], [[Slokais Islands]], [[Lehvant]], and many other nations reached Serriel's shores, shaping the new nation and leading to the development of railroads, bridges, and other infrastructure.

In 1884, the Bey [[Mansur Hazinedar]], a Serrin noble who ruled the city of Karakent (modern-day Serriel City) used his army, equipped with weaponry that they had traded for with Laeralian and other foreign traders, began an extended campaign of conquest against the ruler of the city of Pasimit and the various Suhar tribes of the desert and highlands. Hazinedar succeeded in unifying a large coastal region under his rule, but faced opposition in the interior from the Sheikh [[Zuhayr Bilal]], who had unified many of the Suhar tribes. Bilal himself was captured, and many of his warriors were sold into slavery, following the Battle of Assarrah in 1891. Hazinedar declared himself the Sultan of Serriel (meaning 'land of the Serrin') in a coronation in 1892. 

In 1912, a Suhar uprising led by Khaldun Bilal (son of Sheikh Zuhayr Bilal) led to continuing conflict with the Hazinedar Sultanate. The death of Sultan Mansur in 1937 led to Islamic religious figures (known as the ulema) to assume a greater role under his son, Sultan Selim III. 

Selim III, a powerful and autocratic leader, skillfully leveraged support from foreign nations to maintain his grip on power and promote continued Serrielan industrialization; by the outbreak of the [[Great War]] in 1961, the standard of living in Serriel's urban regions was akin to that of [[Opthelia]] or [[Xiomera]]. Selim led Serriel into alignment with the [[Coalition of Democratic Forces]] during the Great War due to a desire to curb Dual Monarchy influence in northern Neria. Serrielan forces saw combat against the Dual Monarchy during the Battle of Yazlik, a months-long siege of a Serrielan trade concession city of the same name which ended in its fall to Vertansk-Solavanian forces in 1962, as well as sending a contingent of troops to fight against the Xiomeran invasion of Eiria and harrying the Dual Monarchy's navy at sea. 

It was the [[Serriel-Iskiram War]], however, that proved to place much greater burdens on the Serrielan homeland. An attempt to elevate Serriel to hegemony over northern Neria, the war was prompted in the short-term by mistreatment of the Muslim minority in [[Iskiram]] and the desire to control the Sufaj Waterway. The war against Serriel's more-populous, yet comparatively-impoverished, neighbor led to immense domestic hardship and tremendous loss of life. The later years of the war coincided with communist mobilization, particularly during the so-called ''Kırmızı Yıl'' ("Red Year") of 1977, which saw ''halk konseyleri'', or worker's councils, created by local cadres across Serriel in a state of revolt.  

During the Kırmızı Yıl, General Demir Sarraf, a renowned military leader, deposed the Sultan in the [[September Coup]] with the encouragement of leftist forces. King Demir proved a moderate, pro-foreign leader, notably crowning himself as King rather than Sultan, and who accommodated the communist ''konseyleri'' which served as the government in several provinces. During his reign, he secularized the nation and worked to attract foreign investment. King Cemil I, his successor, took advantage of a divide in the communist EHIP Party in 1991 to order the round-up of its leaders in the [[Night of Clubs]] (Operation Longtail), leading to the weakening of the organization and the reassertion of government control over the communist-led "council areas." A new constitution was adopted in 1992, establishing Serriel's modern semi-democratic regime and codifying the "parallel state" structure in which EHIP councils and party cadres are incorporated into governance in several provinces.  King Muharrem II ascended to the throne in 2005.