Cilicia

The Republic of Cilicia (Armenian: Կիլիկիոյ Հանրապետություն, Kilikio Hanrapetut'yun) is a country in Anatolia.

Also known informally as Lesser Armenia, Cilicia is the result of an Armenian migration into Anatolia following the capture of the Kingdom of Armenia by Muslim forces in the Middle Ages. Cilicia was part of the Black Empire that spanned from Europe into Mesopotamia, as far north as Ukraine and far south as Egypt. Much like Armenia, Cilicia was a favorite location for the Black Empire to hide relics important to them, with Antioch being used as a building ground for Vampire Temples and crypts. While under the Black Empire, Antioch came to be known as Chernazmaigrat (from Serbian: Crnazmajgrad, "City of the Black Dragon".

Following the fall of the Black Empire, Cilicians actively destroyed all vampire temples and raided the tombs and crypts of dead nobles for their treasures. Much like in Armenia, surviving vampires absconded with their treasures and set up safe tombs for respected officials whom they did not want to be disfigured in death. In Eastern Cilicia, in the deserts near Syria, one can find the Dragon's Pit, a subterranean sandstone catacomb that was created by the Cilician vampires to house important figures, much like Armenia's Valley of the Dark Lords.

Cilicia was reorganized under a king for much of its remaining history, entering into a personal union with Armenia in the 1300s. Heilong Yu visited Cilicia sometime in the 12th Century to find those books that were missing from the House of Knowledge in Bagdad. Ironically, these hidden books, stolen from the library by Cilician administrators, and later hidden in the Dragon's Pit, initially unavailable to Yu when she sought out knowledge about China in the House of Knowledge, would be the last surviving books following the Destruction of the library in 1105 by forces of the Latin Empire invading Baghdad.

Cilicia was captured by the Fatimid Caliphate in the 1700s, and remained as such until the end of the Great War, wherein France took control of the land and granted independence to it, implementing a French-style government for the new nation.