Hélsk

Hélsk (Torberian: ['Xelsk]), officially Helskan (Tévnovan: ['Xælskan]) is the capital of the state of Rjén-Tévnova and the third-largest city in Torberia after Torbera and Esver-Estern, surpassing 3 million inhabitants in the city. The wider urban area also comprising the neighbouring municipalities has a population of around 5.7 million. Hélsk is Torberia's third-largest metropolitan area, with a population ranging from 5 to 5.8 million depending on how the metropolitan area is defined. The city of Hélsk is the 2nd Most industrialized city in Torberia, and has the Largest port of the torberian mainland, located in the navigable part of the Hájt river. The city of Hélsk is also ranked as the 2nd best city to live in Torberia by the Hérraltet na Kámpraták Torbrját.

Hélsk was founded in 220 BC by the king of northern jaturnam Héls I, and was called Hélessan Héritan. In the year 3 AD the city of Hélsk was incorporated into the growing Jaturnian Empire. During its time in the Jaturnian empire, the city experienced a golden age, with its population reaching over 300,000 people. Sadly, when the empire started declining, it declined too, and by the time of the karnak conquest in the 400s it had already become nothing more than a small village. In the year 602 it was then conquered by the estebians, who held it for over 150 years, until in 773 it was conquered by the resurgent karnaks in serivnia. During the serivnian period it started recovering, slowly growing through the 9th century, and being recognized as a city in 983 AD. The city reached its zenith during the reign of Térbiran the great (1082-1123), a native of the city, who spent a masssive amount of his personal wealth into making it the greatest city in Serívnia. During this time, the city became the biggest city in the empire, having over half a million inhabitants in 1120. After térbiran's death, the city went back to its slow growth which lasted until the 1300s, which saw the city decline once again. in the next century, it was sacked 9 times by the nomadic estebians, driving it back to a small city status. In 1513 it was conquered by the estebians, and in 1533 it was made capital of the Áuratkrájt, the northern borders of the Estebian realm. During the estebian period, the city grew again, but never matching the old glory it had during the jaturnian and serivnian times. During the torberian uprising of 1722, the city sided with the estebians, and remained until estebian control until the estebian empire was peacefully dissolved in 1788. In 1788, Hélsk became the capital of the new Tévnovan Republic. During the Tévnovan era, the city started another massive growth period, as the tévnovan republic started urbanizing and becoming more centralized, reaching a million inhabitants in 1893, and becoming the cultural center of the Tévnovan world. in 1914, together with the torberian civil war, the tévnovan republic entered their own civil war between the right-wing nationalists of the government and the communist revolutionaries. After a year of fighting, the communists won, but hélsk was completely destroyed. They tried to rebuild, but in 1917, after the Torberian Civil War ended, Kébrennt invaded the Tévnovan State, and annexed it into torberia as the Hálatszrjén governorate. During the kebrennt period, the city started growing massively, thanks to the torberian industrialization drive that was going on, and kebrennt believing the Rjén river would be a great base for torberian industry. In the 50s, growing unrest due to Kébrennt's anti-tévnovan policies resulted in the 1956 Hélsk Uprising, in which by orders of Szártan, the city was to be turned into rubble, to make sure it never posed a threat again. After the uprising, the city rebuilt, and started growing massively again, but sadly the torberian economic collapse reached torberia, and the growth stopped completely. With szártan's rise into the Lészership, the city started growing very fast once again, thanks to Szártan's revitalization policies. The reasons of this are unknown, but it's suspected that this is out of regret for the 1956 destruction of Hélsk he ordered.