Golanbe
Golanbe is a city in southwest Feladmena Province, 41 kilometres from the boundary with Isana City and linked to it via both the Ibretal High-Speed Rail Network and the Ibretal Southern Highway. It has a population of 421,335.
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Geography
Golanbe is one of the many so-called "Plains Cities", or Menasanite, a term referring to the group of cities within the Feladmena Plain. Its terrain is mostly flat, and crossed with many streams mostly flowing north towards the Rushalya river; the major rivers include the Bude river and the Nigil river.
One of the most prominent geographical features of the city is the Aduna Mound, which rises in the north of the city near the Nigil to a height of 88 metres. To this day an aircraft observation post dating from the Fourth Global War, and a museum dedicated to the city's war years, stands at the summit.
History
Golanbe is famous for being, by proportion, the Risevan settlement that lost the most of its people during the Fourth Global War. During the war, the Risevan Army was organised for convenience and morale into units according to the hometowns of recruits, and the regiments of Golanbe repeatedly found themselves in the thick of some of the worst fighting of the war, including the Battle of Garmagas Island and the Battle of Hamakairanoe; because of their proximity to Isana and their being well-known as alternative factory sites, they were also heavily bombed by Coalition attacks. All in all, out of 81,000 people at the start of the war and discounting children who were evacuated, a shocking 22,000 died and another 29,000 were wounded. Most of the city was also ravaged by bombing attacks.
