Craeperia Citerior
Craeperia Citerior | |||||||||
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| Capital | Usqulumen | ||||||||
| Common languages | Old Creeperian | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Craeperian | ||||||||
| Government | Consular republic | ||||||||
| Consul | |||||||||
• 109 BC (first) | Gnaeus Servilius Geminus Tullius Arsinius Burrus | ||||||||
• 193 AD (last) | Caeso Sexto Calvino Juliano Curtito Flaxo | ||||||||
| Legislature | Senate | ||||||||
| Historical era | Classical antiquity | ||||||||
• Established | 5 October 110 BC | ||||||||
• Declared independence | 4 April 193 AD | ||||||||
| Currency | Denarius | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Creeperopolis | ||||||||
Craeperia Citerior (literally "Nearer Craeperia") was a client state of the Romanyan Republic and the later Romanyan Empire from 108 BC until 193 AD when it declared independence as the Craeperian Republic. Craeperia Citerior was the only Romanyan client state to exist south of the Creeperian Range.
The state was established in 110 BC under Gnaeus Servilius Geminus by Romanyan survivors of the Battle of the Xichútepa River. The state pledged its allegiance to the Romanyan Republic in 108 BC once several Romanyan legions dispatched south of the Creeperian Range found the Romanyan survivors. Craeperia Citerior's consuls managed to negotiate that the region would remain a client state rather than a province, arguing that exerting full provincial control over the territory would be difficult.
In 193 AD, when news of the death of Emperor Commodus and subsequent outbreak of a civil war, the consuls declared full independence from the Romanyan Empire as it recognized Commodus' successors as usurpers. The Craeperian Republic defeated Romanyan soldiers at the Battle of the Vadum River in 203 and assured the new republic's independence from the Romanyan Empire.
