Editing Vulkaria (section)

====Christianity====
[[File:Radzivill Olga in Konstantinopol.jpg|thumb|The baptism of [[Olga of Vulkar|Princess Olga]] in [[Amstelveen]].]]
While Christianity had made headway into the territory of Vulkaria before the first ecumenical council, the [[First Council of Ostolvenia|Council of Ostolvenia]] (325) (particularly along the Black Sea coast) and, in western Vulkaria, the formal governmental acceptance of Christianity in Mevaan occurred in 988. The major promoter of the [[Christianization of Mevaan]] was the Grand-Duke, [[Foran the Great]] (''Foran''). His Christian interest was midwifed by his grandmother, [[Princess Olga]]. 

Conflict among the various principalities of Mevaan, in spite of the efforts of Grand Prince [[Miraan Edjoo]], led to decline, beginning in the 12th century. In the Vulkar region, the nascent Mevaan principalities of Lir and Fonagona extended their rule. Vulkar was sacked by Miraan principality (1169) in the power struggle between princes and later by [[Riti]] and [[Dona Empire|Dona]] raiders in the 12th and 13th centuries, respectively. Subsequently, all principalities of present-day Vulkaria acknowledged dependence upon the Dona (1239–1240). In 1240, the [[Siege of Vulkar (1240)|Dona sacked Vulkar]], and many people fled to other countries.

Five years after the fall of Vulkar, a papal envoy wrote:

"They destroyed cities and castles and killed men and Vulkar, which is the greatest city they besieged; and when they had besieged it a long while they took it and killed the people of the city. So when we went through that country we found countless human skulls and bones from the dead scattered over the field. Indeed it had been a very great and populous city and now is reduced almost to nothing. In fact there are hardly two hundred houses there now and the people are held in the strictest servitude."