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'''Vena''', more appropriately '''Nova Vena''' (''Niu Vena in Gottlandic''), is a large city in [[Mishalan]], located in the foothills of Mount Octavian in central [[Benacia]]. The city was founded by [[Amokolia]] but has much older origins dating back to the [[Hegemony of Alexandros]]. It takes its name from the ancient Alexandrosian (Latin) word for "vein", a reference to the importance of mining in the area. Before the Amokolians helped modernize it into a city, Vena was a small village that served as a mining outpost for Alexandros and the multitude of other nations that eventually came to control the region. At one point the city was catastrophically destroyed, whereupon a new city was founded on the foundations of the old one, earning it the name of "Nova Vena". It was the Amokolians who were responsible for elevating the city from a village of muddy streets and shoddy buildings to a modern city with all the conveniences of urban planning. When [[Amokolia]] took over the area they also made it the capitol of the province of Gottland, a short-lived state that occupied much of the Transelwynn and Mishalan Valley. Under the communist government of [[Mishalan]] the city was made one of the major communes.

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