Prince of All Mirokrai
Principality of All Mirokrai Vĭsĭ-Mirokrainoje kŭnędzĭstvo
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| 1065–1213 | |||||||||
 Mirokrai (red outline) under the Yaromirovids in 1140 | |||||||||
| Capital | Sborgrad | ||||||||
| Religion | Siriash, Ishtinism | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Prince | |||||||||
• 1065–1081 | Ostromir I Spytihnevevid | ||||||||
• 1202–1213 | Zvezdan II Onorovid | ||||||||
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• Conquest | 1065 | ||||||||
• Dissolution | 1213 | ||||||||
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The Prince of All Mirokrai was the Secote ruler (kunentsy) of the peninsula of Pạmā, today the heartland of Agamar. The first prince, Ostromir I Spytihnevevid (r. 1065–1081), was installed following the Secote conquest in 1065. The Spytihnevevids continued to hold the position until the extinction of the family in 1091, when they were replaced by the Orfatsky dynasty after a request was sent to the Steward of the Chotarians for a new prince. The Orfatskys then ruled until 1101, when an army was sent from the centre under Zvezdan Onorovid (r. 1101–1127) to depose Ostrobor II Orfatsky after he lost control of the territory during the Nine Hands Revolt. Zvezdan's successors continued to rule until 1213, when Zvezdan II Onorovid died and the Principality fragmented into the Seven States.
As in other regions of the former Chotarian Empire, the prince's primary role within the Secote political structure was ostensibly to oversee the distribution of villages and other taxable sources of income for the purposes of ožidomy collection among the Secote bands who fanned out over the newly conquered territories in the 1060s, as well as to insure that tribute due to the Emperor was duly dispatched; he was also secondarily responsible for maintaining order within his jurisdiction. However, unlike the Chotarian heartland – where the total implosion of the Fifth Empire's overcentralised bureaucracy left an almost total power vacuum well suited to the imposition of a migratory Secote ožidomy system – the largely autonomous Maintenancy of Ağame had a complex and interlinked system of offices which largely survived the violent overthrow of the Chotarian order. The Secote settlers in modern Agamar thus largely inserted themselves into the upper ranks of the existing political order, and the prince became the highest authority responsible for the repair of the anti-cayvore infrastructure characterising the Agamari state of the period.
The prince and his court were more deeply rooted in local society than their counterparts to the west, and their position was somewhat less dependent on the recognition of the Secote Emperor and on the immediate charisma and following of a given ruler. The governors of the peninsula were largely left to their own devices as long as symbolic tribute was dispatched to their various superiors, and by 1091 – less than 30 years after the conquest of Pạmā – the office was sufficiently well established that indigenous grandees petitioned the Empire's viceroy in Outer Joriscia, the Steward of the Chotarians, to appoint a replacement for the deceased and childless Boromir Spytihnevevid. There is considerable evidence, however, that the princes' actual authority was far more limited than their often bombastic rhetoric suggested, as well as being almost cripplingly dependent on the goodwill of the Pạmān notability. Although the internal workings of the prince's court left behind few records, the unbroken continuity in the records of the Grand Maintenants suggest that second-rank dignitaries inherited from the Chotarian period largely went on running the country much as before in practice. With small numbers of Secote settlers finding their way as far as the cayvore-swept peninsula, the prince also had little in the way of natural sources of military power, especially in comparison with the Commanders of Axiov and Tormetia in the east, whose position was otherwise similar. Documents from the Nine Hands Revolt suggest that it was Ostrobor II's attempts to extend his authority beyond the bounds set by the Maintenants that triggered mass unrest, ultimately leading to his deposition by a force dispatched from the west.
The apparent supremacy of the Maintenants was attenuated by the establishment of the Onorovid dynasty following the suppression of the Nine Hands Revolt in 1101, largely thanks to what seems to have been a deliberate effort on the part of Zvezdan I to encourage the establishment of local Secote dynasties in strategically important regions across Pạmā. Zvezdan also took measures to Secotise the upper ranks of the Maintenancy, although this seems to have resulted largely in the assimilation of the new Secote and old Agar-speaking elites. It also seemingly did little to keep the then ailing Zvezdan from having to submit himself before the Yaromirovids late in his rule. While the establishment of ostensibly loyal Secote forces across the country may have provided a temporary boost to the Onorovids, the eventual entrenchment of local dynasties with a much closer relationship with the populace than the Princes (later to develop into the Auditors) ultimately resulted in the fragmentation of political authority in the Principality, and with the death of the last Prince in 1213 the title became defunct and formal authority passed to the Commanders.