Prince of Lopocka
Principality of Lopocka | |||||||||
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| 1558–1769 | |||||||||
| Status | Principality of Great Neritsia | ||||||||
| Capital | Chiklar | ||||||||
| Common languages | Lefdic, Lacrean | ||||||||
| Religion | Vaestism | ||||||||
| Prince | |||||||||
• 1558-1563 | Mistivoy I Abory | ||||||||
• 1702-1746 | Vladimir II Borodarhazi | ||||||||
• 1747-1769 | Vladimir III Borodarhazi | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Establishment | 1558 | ||||||||
• Fejedelem's Coup | 1769 | ||||||||
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The Prince of Lopocka was a Neritsovid political office equivalent in rank to a provincial governor and responsible for the northern portion of the Province of Lopocka, constituted by Ostrobor the Pious (1554-1572) along with that Province after the Neritsovid conquest of the Kingdom of the Lopts in 1558. The office was modelled on the existing position of Prince of the Lakar, with extensive additional powers beyond those of a normal provincial governor intended to more easily allow the maintenance of order and the spread of Vaestism in a region dominated at the time by Sirians. Following the War of the Pact of Osan, the Prince became one of the various rulers of the Starroz Krai responsible for provision of pièche regiments in exchange for Head Money.
Shortly after the proclamation of the Neritsovid counter-candidate Borovest II (1703-1753) at the Council of Irn in 1703, the Pseudolacrean noble Vladimir Borodarhazi moved to militarily secure the southern portions of the Province and expelled the ostensibly pro-Legitimist governor Neritsobor Abory, for which he was rewarded by the Restorationist Party with the title of Prince in 1704, as 'Vladimir II'. After 1714, however, he was ousted by the Legitimist Procuratorate of Lefdim, and then by the Lacrean Intervention from 1719 to 1738. It was only after the expulsion of the Lacreans in the Rebuke of Near Zavarudsk that Vladimir II return to represent Axopol. His nephew, also named Vladimir, succeeded him in 1747, and was confirmed in this title at the Majestic Peace.
Prince Vladimir III confronted pièche factional struggles between the Ukugozamat and the Yazimovtsy. To maintain his position he embarked on policies seen by Lopts as unacceptably servile toward Axopol, while envy of the independence of the neighbouring Graviate of Lacre brought a movement of Neo-Chotarianism into the country. In 1769 Vladimir III was overthrown in a military coup and replaced by Kugoza Ipdut, who proclaimed himself Procurator and (mostly ceremonially) Fejedelem in Lopocka.
Despite the alternative translation of Loptic Principality, the position was never occupied by an ethnic Lopt, but rather by successive members of the High Nobility and then Pseudolacreans.