Yuvaria (Province)

Yuvaria is a province in Yunria. It's currently governed by Knyaz Malo Rauva.

Etymology
Yuvaria is a modern way of writing the word "Juvrja". The exact the way of how the word was written in the ancient times is unknown due to lack of writing abilities by the natives before the colonization. It's suspected that it mean "Golden Land", it has never been confirmed though.

Architecture
Yuvarian architecture differs from the part of region because of the isolation between different tribes. The district of Pszenogród is usually made of households with cobblestone foundations and wooden higher layers of a house. Mexrncast's architecture is characterized mainly by the High Juvrjan style, which mainly makes use of stone bricks and spruce wood. There's several landmarks, the main one being the Clock Tower, Asteria's Tower and the high walls of the city. Low Juvrjan, which is older, displays the use of cobblestone rather than backed stone bricks and sometimes other more rare archaic materials, such as warped or crimson wood and blackstone. The buildings were generally smaller and with less window openings.

Yuvarian Activites
Juvrjan before the colonization of Eldham were mostly a hunters' nation. The nearby forests were dense and wild animals were common. This changed however after the colonization. Juvrjans also love drinking, many households have thier own brewing stations and taverns aren't uncommon in Juvrjan cities.

Religion
For most time, Juvrjans pracited a polytheistic religion with monotheistic elements called Halinism. The most popular ways of practicing this religion was dancing around the campfire in the middle of the night. Such an even was happening at the first day of Spring and Autumn. During these nights lovers were proposing to each other. Another popular even occuring was a communal praying in front of the houses. Entire families were gathering on the streets and were praying to the current King of Gods. Sometimes, cults of diffrent gods were appearing. Such cults weren't enouraged yet they were tolared by local communites. The important people during this events were Starostas - Juvrjan shamans and witches. They claimed to have direct contact with gods and offered to a communication between the normal people and gods in exchange of food and water. Starostas were highly respected by the local communities. To become Starosta, one must've either be teached by one or inherit the title from their father or mother. The legends say about the Dszyj The First as the first Starosta to exist after he claimed to see the Etia herself. Many Juvrjans converted to the Umbraism after the discovery of a cage made out of indestructible hard rock and the foundation of a said religion. They haven't abandoned the idea of Starosta though. Many Starostas after the conversion to Umbraism became priests. They are as respected as before by Juvrjans.

Traditional Food of Juvrja
Due to Juvrjans being a hunters' nation for a long time many Juvrjan dishes were meat. The most popular were reindeer and boar meat. Juvrjans were mostly serving them with mushrooms and and other forest plants. Western parts of the Juvrja prefred to serve them as a soup though. After the colonization however, when farming took the most important role as the main resource of food, Juvrjans liked the potatoes the most due to them being easily accessible and easy to produce. That's why after the colonization Juvrjan dishes were mostly potatoes served in many diffrent ways. The most popular is the mushroom soup with potatoes in it. It's not the only way of serving food that spread along the Juvrjan communites, people of Pszenogród like to eat chips with poppy seeds.

Ancient Times
About 1200 springs before the colonization land of Juvrja, Nathria and some enclaves in the territory of Yujava were inhabited by the ancient people of Radogostians. Unfortunately due to the lack of contact between Juvrjan and Nathrian Radogostians those two culture begun to differ much from each other. Friendly contacts remained between Yujavan and Nathrian Radogostians were still intact though. Around 1000 springs before the colonization Dszyj The First claimed seeing Etia and proclaiming himself the first Starosta of Juvrja.

Pre-Colonization Period
The times before the colonization were known as the most peaceful and uneventful in Juvrjan history, altough Juvrjan culture have seceded from the Radogostian group of cultures, inventing new langauge, dialects, traditions and religion.

Post-Colonization Period
Juvrian lands were along the first lands to get claimed by Ellysian Empire. Most tribes were left alone but they had to pledge loyalty to a foreign crown that didn't understand natives' ideas and culture. Ellysians also killed many of the local wild animals which in consquence lead to the development of the farming industry and the foundation of towns of Pszenogród, Mexrncast and Volnygrad.

Fall of Ellysia and Avarian Colony
After the Fall of Second Ellysian Empire the Juvrjan lands were under Forth Administrative Zone and were governed by Avaria. Juvrjan crown was handed over to 3 diffrent people. After a month of 3 differnt rulers the crown has been passed to Ashey. He bought independence from the Avarian state for 200.000 coins. Consequently, Ashey became the first Knyaz of Jurvja.