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Mevosa is the capital and largest city of Fluvique, and one of the largest metropolitan areas in Rushmore.It is located on the western coast of the Yellow River, in a zone know as duck's bight. The Greater Mevosa conurbation, which also includes several Mevosa Province districts, has a population of around eight million.

Aboriginal peoples settled down near the actuals Regency Park and Rose Gardens and the zone was named Mhe-Vo-Ska. After, the Spaniards colonizers established a garrison and the first fort. After the independence in 1821, the city and his port was part of several struggles and was the capital of the Republic, the Confederation and, since 1871, the Kingdom. Despite many projects, the city limits were placed between the North and Union river.

Mevosa contains famous landmarks including The White Palace, the April Square, The Royal Concert Hall, Mevosa Cathedral, Royal Planetarium, parks as Constitution and April, the Old Port market, The Little Angels boulevard and the Revolution Avenue, one of the widest and longest avenues in the world. Mevosa has the major concentration of theatres and museums per capita in the world, including the National Museum, Royal Natural History Museum, Royal Planetarium, The Royal Concert Hall and Union theatre. The Mevosa Subway is one of the oldest in the world, with the first line inaugurated in 1908.

A global city with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, fashion, healthcare, media and tourism, Mevosa is the economic center of Fluvique and is the starter point of the railway system and the highway system. The city is a top tourist destination, and is known for its European-style architecture, especially on his French influences, with big palaces, cafes, boulevards and parks.

Mevosa is defined as a multicultural city, being home to multiple ethnic and religious groups. Several languages are spoken in the city in addition to Spanish, French and English, contributing to its culture and the dialect spoken in the city and in some other parts of the country. The city port was the final destination for millions of immigrants in the late XIX century and until 1950, which contributed to change the local and national society and created the nowadays Fluvique. The Royal Statistical Office estimates a total population of more than 6,591,890 people living in Mevosa and around 8,359,210 in Greater Mevosa. Around 19% of the inhabitants are immigrants, but 89% of the population are sons of immigrants.

Etymology

The Spanish sailors that arrived to the coast in 1535 to establish a fort, named the zone as Saint Marguerite of the Valley, believing that they where in the legendary Spices Valley, described by the French. However, after a year, they realized that the zone was not a Valley but a low area between two rivers. The colonizers had trade networks with the indigenous people of the zone, due to two little villages near the actual Regency park and the Rose garden in the north part of the city. The natives had the word Mhe-Vo-Ska for the area, meaning "town or towns between two rivers".

The second settlement in 1556, founded the city of Mevosha around the fort, renamed Saint Marguerite of Mevosha. Over the next decades, the name changed from the original to the actual Mevosa, officialized in 1588 when the reconstructed fort was named Saint John of Mevosa.

History

Colonial times

The city history truly began in 1536, when the lands around the fort were distributed among many sailors from Spain and Italy and the families of the soldiers in the fort. The city coast had ravines and his waters were not enough deep to allow the ships to land in the center, where the fort was. Thus, the Spaniards created the Old Port in the mouth of the actual Union river, called Bloody Creek, due to his waters. Until the early XVIII century, the city was divided into two: a port zone in the south and the main village with the square, markets, fort and the General Lieutenant houses and colonial offices, in the center.

The aboriginal peoples were more friendlies than in other colonies around the world, but the Spaniards expelled all the aboriginals to the west, isolating the cities from the hinterland and his peoples. From his early days, Fluvique depended primarily on trade. The fields around the village were excellent for the agriculture and livestock and quickly became the main resourse for the economy, also sharing importance with the logging and fishery. His location in middle of the colonies made the city the capital and most important city of the nascent Viceroyalty. His growing port was the center of commercial activities, absorbing the flow of all the Yellow River coast. The citizens quickly became the richest of the Yellow River provinces, having a life-style similar to the european, importing customs and people from the old world. However, the Spanish authorities reacted increasing taxes and establishing a stronger monopoly with the metropolis, to the detriment of the Mevosians. This led to the develop of a complex smuggling system, with the permission of some colonial authorities, impulsing even more the commerce of wheat and leathers.

Unlike many other colonial cities, in Mevosa the surname or the origins were no recipe for the social success but the success achieved by own merit

Independence and Civil Wars

Modern history

Demographics

City Map