Valleres

Valleres Province Provinsi Valleres Wǎ liè léi sī shěng
Province
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Nickname(s):  Land of the Five Rivers
Country	Slokais Islands
Establishment	01 January 1894
Capital and largest city	San Sabla
Ethnic groups	46.5% Mestizo 22.5% Indigenous 9% Pimya 5% Ambonari 2% Calahung 13.3% Rén 8.1% Costenos 4.7% Kaijanese 3.0% Blancos 0.7% Andharian 0.5% Haesanite 0.3% Other 0.3% Afro-Slokasian
Religion	69% Christian 11% Minjian 6% Islam 9% Other/Agnostic 4% Revivalist 1% Celestialism
Demonym(s)	Valeros
Government
• Governor	Reynaldo Blanco
National representation
• Slokaisian Legislature	54/643
Population
• 2025 census	5,608,954 (3rd)
Postal	VS

Valleres is a province in Slokais Islands with a capital city of home to 5,608,954 and has a capital and the largest city of San Sabla. The 3rd largest by population, Valleres is economically and politically important due to its population and comparatively flat land for animal grazing and farming. Culturally, Valleres is a unique mix of Mestizo and Indigenous, as well as influence from across the country, as Valleres is a popular destination for internal settlement.

History

Valleres has a large indigenous population dating back to the Pimya and Calahuang ethnic groups. Pimya in the southern and western regions and the Calahuang in the north. The wealthier Kamjanaian Kingdom subjugated Pimya around 600 CE due to superior technology; they allowed the Pimyaian establishment to maintain their traditional practices and language in exchange for tribute. Eventually, however, as the Great War of Faith continued in the 1000s and the collapse of the Kamjanaian Kingdom, Pimya and Calahuang were established as farming kingdoms. Calahuang, being a Minjian state from the 1070s onward, and Pimya, being an animist state. Pimya conquered the nearby Tedaya in 1210, a scene depicted in the famous "Conquering of Tedaya," a painting displayed in the National Gallery of Slokais and one of the best examples of indigenous wall art.

Pimya which controlled the coastal areas of Valleres prospered as a trading kingdom until the 1300s when the arrival of Islamic traders and their networks, as well as the growth of the Pindai State led to the Pimya collapsing and losing most of its territory to smaller clans and warlords. Due to the location between Ambonar, Pindai and Kaijan courting these warlords became an important business. Ambonar initially conquered weaker states such as Hakan in the 1400s although they were largely stopped by the Calahuang Kingdom, an ally of Pindai. Kaijan meanwhile established various trade districts along the southern coast with a population of mostly Arab farmers settling along coastal tracts. In 1610, Costeno established San Sabla as an inland trading hub near the Calahuang city of Mandrakai. They constructed a mission as well as set out to establish new land claims. The Calahuang lacked formal land ownership laws and thus when a person died, their house and land were often acquired by settlers. Finally, in 1649, Charles Kamanga, a landowner of mixed Costenos and Calahuang background came to power and formally dissolved the state.

With a large amount of arable land, settlers from both Costeno and those living in the San Fernando Valley began to migrate to Valleres. Local clans slowly lost power as the Costeno authorities declared the Province of Valleres from the Rio Plata River in the west to the Calwais River in the east. As a result of the new land and class policy, indigenous people lost land. This led to over several decades, a large number of interracial marriages between Indigenous women and Costeno men as there Mesitzo children would have the rights of citizens. Despite this, tribal groups remained in the highland regions; additionally, Ambonar resisted new land claims. By the time of the Sanctarian control in the 1820s, San Sabla was a growing center of regional trade and export. Despite this, Newport was declared as the provincial capital due to its direct access to the ocean and it's use by the navy to eventually capture Kaijan in 1845.