Ahvoz

Ahvoz is a city of note in central Eidora, on the coast of the Eidoran sea. It has long been a multicultural trade hub with a majority Radovian and Hwair population. After the disasterous years of the Age of Turmoil had passed, Ahvoz would be declared a neutral free city as to prevent violent conflict over its ownership.

General information
The ethnic makeup of the city has long been dominated by a Hwair majority, though after the integration of the city into the expanding Radovian empire, the large Radovian minority already present would overtake the position as largest ethnic group. Other present groups are Zvogorians, Eradics, and a small number of Krichoians.

Radovian civil war
During Operation Denouement in 1922, when Hwairland intervened in the civil war to crush the Noble army on the beheft of the Republican movement, Hwair forces also fpushed away Radovian imperial forces from Ahvoz, occupying the city. This was met by criticism by the republican movements, though Hwairland justified the occupation as a way to protect the city and its Hwair inhabitants from the destructive civil war. The occupation was not smooth by any means, and Hwairland forces had to repell an attack by the Imperials the same year, and another by the GRRA in 1923, all the while dealing with sabotage by Radovian loyalists.

As the Imperial government collapsed and surrendered in 1926, the question of Ahvoz was one of many subjects discussed at the post-war Congress of Tyatsmir. Radovia and Hwairland did not see eye to eye and both claimed that the city was rightfully theirs - however, through preassure from the other participants in the congress, it was finally agreed in 1928 that the city would be turned into a neutral city-state collectively governed by the newly founded Eidoran Council.

Free city
Organised throughout 1928 and declared on the first day of 1929, the new Free City of Ahvoz was initially imagined as a temporary meassure to prevent yet another violent conflict in a war-worn and weary Eidora. However, as the years went by, Ahvoz would take on the informal role of a capital city of the Eidoran Council