Comăști Crusade

Comăști Crusade
Part of Ethnic and Religious tensions within the Judeo-Dacian Empire
I'ir Duben Stands Strong, painting by Eli Rafi depicting the Third Battle of I'ir Duben, 1878.
Date 8 May 1779 - 3 February 1800 (20 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days) Location Judeo-Dacian Empire, modern-day Pavulturilor Result Judeo-Dacian victory Restoration of the Status of the Dacian Orthodox Church Wallakhi Genocide
Belligerents
Judeo-Dacian Empire Far-Duben Principality (from 1781) Dacian Orthodox Church (from 1784) Comăști Legion (from 1784)	Wallakhian Recognition council (from October of 1779) Northern Dacian Legion Dacian Orthodox Church (until 1784) Comăști Legion (until 1784)
Commanders and leaders
Ezra Melekh IX Eli Shemesh Traian Iancu Dalca  † Simion Romulus Bălan Sandu Cosmin Vlad Stan David Cristea	Dragoș Emilian Popa Filip Dorinel Văduva Cosmin Lilian Florea Dorin Isac Pop  † Flaviu Dorian Cojocaru  † Mircea Codrin Funar Rafael Dorin Vlad  † Stan David Cristea
Strength
Pre 1784 300,000 Post 1784 540,000	Pre 1784 210,000 Post 1784 255,000
Casualties and losses
~100,000	~300,000
~50,000 Civilians during the war ~250,000 Wallakhi civilians after the war

The Comăști Crusade was one of four major ethno-religious conflicts within the Judeo-Dacian Empire during the late 1700's, as well as the longest. Starting after the First Comăști Incident, where the newly-coronated Emperor, Ezra Melekh IX, would be interperted as blaspheming against god in front of the Patrarch of the Dacian Orthodox Church, Rafael Dorin Vlad, who would proceed to rally the Christian population of the region to a Crusade against the Empire.

The Rally would be met with mixed adhearance, those who would listen would join either the Northern Dacian Legion , or the smaller Comăști Legion. While the rest would stay neutral, this however would change when in October of the same year, when the Wallakhi Recognition Council would be endorsed by the Patriarch, following an order to revoke the First Wallakhi Excommunication, while this move granted the Patriach's forces with a significant boost to it's soldier count, many of the remaining neutral Christians in the region would see this move as borderline heretical, as the Wallakhis were seen as pagans, despite being just a different christian scet, and hurried to join Imperial forces.

Meanwhile, The Judeo-Dacian Empire would negotiate with one of its former vassels, the Far-Duben Principality for help in the war effort, as it seemed that the combined Orthodox-Wallakhi legions would prove decisive for the Imperial forces to handle alone, resulting in the I'ir Duben Agreement, where the Far Duben Principality would be ceded some territory following the end of all hostilities within the empire in exchange for total war support, forcing the Orthodox-Wallakhi legions to split in a two-front war. Several years into the conflict, in 1784, another religious incident in the city of Comăști would occur, where the Wallakhians would attempt to coup d'etat the Dacian Orthodox Church, as they sought to negotiate their independence with the empire, as opposed to the Patriarch, who sought to unify it under one faith. The incident would see the death of Patriarch Rafael Dorin Vlad, and the seizure of power by the Wallakhis, who were supported by the Northern Dacian Legion, however, failure to kill the Patriarch's successor, Sandu Cosmin Vlad, caused the Second Wallakhi Excommunication and the exile of the church to Călănesea until the war's end, now siding with the Empire.

However the Wallakhians have misjudged the imperial position, now reinforced, the empire was helbent on re-establishing the national landscape, even at the cost of genociding entire demographics. And the rest of the war would be characterized by some of the most brutal battles of the four conflicts, and the end result would be even more brutal, a genocide which would see the total eradication of the Wallaki ethnicity and religion.

Background

Main article: Ethnic and religious tensions within the Judeo-Dacian Empire

Prelude

Main article: First Comăști Incident

Course of the war

Initial Push

First Battle of Comăști

Main article: Battle of Comăști (1779)

First Battle of Călănesea

Main article: Battle of Călănesea (1779)

First Battle of I'ir Duben

Main article: Battle of I'ir Duben (1780)

First Back and Forth

Second Battle of Comăști

Main article: Battle of Comăști (1780)

Second Battle of I'ir Duben

Main article: Battle of I'ir Duben (1781)

I'ir Duben Agreement

Main article: I'ir Duben Agreement

First Wallakhi incursion into the Far-Duben

Main article: First Wallakhi incursion into the Far-Duben

Second Comăști Incident

Main articles: Second Comăști Incident and Second Wallakhi Excomunication

Second Back and Forth

Third Battle of Comăști

Main article: Battle of Comăști (1784)

Third Battle of I'ir Duben

Main article: Battle of I'ir Duben (1785)

Second Wallakhi incursion into the Far-Duben

Main article: Second Wallakhi incursion into the Far-Duben

Third Back and Forth

Fourth Battle of I'ir Duben

Main article: Battle of I'ir Duben (1786)

Fifth Battle of I'ir Duben

Main article: Battle of I'ir Duben (1789)

The Last Comăști Trilogy

Main articles: Battle of Comăști (1791), Battle of Comăști (1795), and Battle of Comăști (1800)

Aftermath

Main article: Wallakhi Genocide

See Also

• Strechian Intifada
• Negba War
• Dubătemir Revolt