Autonomous Zone of Urside

The Autonomous Zone of Urside is a Micronational Outpost/Enclave (called often as Margrave) based in the South Of Italy, few kilometers from Naples. It is called "Autonomous Zone", since it retains its sovereignty and its independence on his territory, it have to been intended as an outpost or enclave for free thinkers and we welcome micro-nationalists from all over the world. URSIDE have the precise objective of uniting artists, free thinkers, holistic healers, people intimately distant from the by worn and uprooted model of nineteenth-century nation-states. The creative freedom of thought and action is the passport to join URSIDE. Together with respect for nature and for the planet that hosts us, the only true Kingdom to which we refer. The coat of arms of the micronation is deliberately a call to noble heraldry in fact, but this does not mean that the margrave is monarchic: the citizens of Urside are libertarians and the titles acquired are exquisitely Dadaists.

The A.Z.UR. (acronym of Autonomous Zone Of Urside) is the seat of the Embassy of the BARDO to the Neapolitan Republic and part of the BARDO Archipelago. The term micronation, which literally means small nation, is a neologism.It is an entity that claims to be an independent nation or state while not officially recognized by governments and big international organizations. The Urside micronation project was initially born as a desire to set up an independent micronation in the agro-Nolan area, near Naples, but since many battles of Urside are closely linked to those of the Bardo micronation, due to ideological affinity and since its founder already part of the BARDO ambassadors, we decided to take part of the BARDO Archipelago.

URSIDE is a micronation that consists of a small territory based in the town of Mariglianella in South Of Italy. Headquartier of the Association "Vault Lab".URSIDE is not a simulation or a game, we are not a real country, nor is it our intention to be recognized as a sovereign nation. We are a micronation!The interest in micronation he has always been part of the soul of the founder and of all those who are part of our community. The idea of ​​a micronation matured in us from an early age, but only at the beginning of 2019, coming into contact with other realities such as Grand Duchy Of Flandrensis and BARDO, which we began to develop the desire to create a micronational outpost.A sort of enclave, to join the world of micronations without breaking up into too many acronyms, for this reason URSIDE is part of the BARDO Archipelago.In our territory we are active as a non-profit organization dedicated especially to music, culture and art. The claim of our avampost as a micronation wants to be an ideal detachment from the Italian state, since we believe in communities and in the strength of micronations.

Head of Government The Regent is the official representative of the micronation and he has several constitutional powers like the appointment of ministers or ambassadors, signing treaties, attend official meetings and receptions. He always works in agreement with citizens and his ministers. Graziano Ciccarelli is the founder and the first head of state of the Autonomous Zone Of Urside.He holds the title of Grand Maquis (or only Maquis) of URSIDE but he never uses his titles outside the micronational community.He is Civil Engineering student at the University Parthenope of Naples.He is Interdisciplinary artist, Underground writer, Musician of the death metal band Jumpscare, President of the No-Profit Association "Vault Lab", Stage Manager of "Impatto Rock", and part of the street team of Famous Stars And Straps Italy.Musician since 2012, music teacher since 2017 and Artist,writer and activist since 2008 while he is doing a Green, Anti-specist and animal supporter activst since 2016

Governement HEAD OF STATE - Graziano Ciccarelli Grand Marquis & Regent of The Autonomous Zone Of Urside Ambassor To Neapolitan Republic for BARDO Intentional Micronation

CHANCELLOR OF URSIDE - Salvatore Andrea Ciccarelli Grand Marquis, Vice-Regent & Chancellor of The Autonomous Zone Of Urside

MINISTER OF JUGGLING. ARTS AND GASTRONOMY - Ciro 'Kirion' Silvano Minister of The Autonomous Zone Of Urside

MINISTER OF ANIMALS and INTER-SPECIES CONNECTIONS - Vincenzo 'Vic' Mussolino Minister of The Autonomous Zone Of Urside

MINISTER OF INTER-DIMENSIONAL AND INTER-PLANETARY CONNECTIONS - Andrea Di Martino Minister of The Autonomous Zone Of Urside Ambassador to Marsupials Nation

MINISTER OF THE SPACE TIME - Maria Innocenti Minister of The Autonomous Zone Of Urside First Lady Of Urside

Grand Maquis of URSIDE The Regent holds the title of Grand Maquis of URSIDE but, as already stated in the presentation, he holds the noble rank in place of only one recognized kingdom: mother Nature. A marquess is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The term is also used to translate equivalent Asian styles, as in Imperial China and Imperial Japan. The German language equivalent is Markgraf (Margrave).The word marquess entered the English language from the Old French marchis ("ruler of a border area") in the late 13th or early 14th century. The French word was derived from marche ("frontier"), itself descended from the Middle Latin marca ("frontier"), from which the modern English words march and mark also descend. The distinction between governors of frontier territories and interior territories was made as early as the founding of the Roman Empire when some provinces were set aside for administration by the senate and more unpacified or vulnerable provinces were administered by the emperor. The titles "duke" and "count" were similarly distinguished as ranks in the late empire, with dux (literally, "leader") being used for a provincial military governor and the rank of comes (literally "companion," that is, of the Emperor) given to the leader of an active army along the frontier.

Ambassadors Ministers and Ambassadors are in office for one year, at the end of which a new appointment is made. If they have worked for the welfare of URSIDE and their citizens, it is possible that they will be re-elected with full confidence. List of Ministries and List of Ambassadors:

Ambassador to Neapolis - Manuel Della Rossa

Ambassador to Albania - Vlash Papa

Ambassador to Dog's Kingdom - Spillo Innocenti

Ambassador to Brazil - Welf Herfurth

Environmental protection The practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, organizations and government itself works to conserve natural resources and the existing natural environment.Where possible, to repair damage and reverse trends.

National holidays Foundation Day - 28 September - Foundation of the URSIDE Regent Day - 6 November - Birthday of the Grand Maquis Graziano Regent of the Autonomous Zone Of Urside National Flag Day -15 December - Celebration of the establishment of the national symbol of URSIDE and publishing of the constitution Constitution Day - 23 October - Commemoration of the first constitution National Bear Day - 23 March - Celebrates the official animals of the URSIDE micronation : the Bears. Left-Handers' Day - 13 August - Urside celebrates the left-handed citizens

In the Autonomous Zone Of Urside, all the festivities of the Ethene and pagan traditional holidays are regularly celebrated.

Language English, Italian and Neapolitan are the official languages of URSIDE. In everyday use, Italian is used by the majority of the subjects In Court, the official language while still the English has also regular use, especially by the government.

Religion Since the founding of the A.Z.UR. , religious freedom is guaranteed by law to all citizens. The Genius Loci of the URSIDE Micronation is Artio (Dea Artio in the Gallo-Roman religion) was a Celtic bear goddess. Evidence of her worship has notably been found at Bern. Her name is derived from the Gaulish word for "bear", Artos.

THE URSIDE FLAG The flag of the URSIDE is a tricolour consisting of the three equal horizontal garnet red, black, and white bands. The Garnet Red represents the Warrior Soul and it's the symbol of our neverending link to the past.The black bar represents the night and his powerful influence on mind and the nobility.The white is the purity, the honesty and it's a closer connection to the ice. The colours to match our official animal mascottes of the micronation. The Garnet Red represents the Grizzly Bear in the Italian territory called "Orso Bruno", the black represents the main color of the Panda, while the white represents the color of the Ice Bear. Urside in italian means "the family of bears" for this reason we have three different bears as symbol of our micronation. The inspiration of this flag comes from many historical flags and also micronational flags such as : Kingdom Of Naples Flag, Traditional European Flag, Mythological Atlantean Empire Flandrensis and Bardo. The Cerimonial Flag is adorned with the marquis crown of the noble family of the Grand Marquis, by a shield containing the three colors of the micronation with a black star in the center, that represent the pure energy of the universe.

URSIDE COAT OF ARMS The first coat of arms consist in the flag of Urside adorned with two bay leaves, representing the Greek descent of the Grand Marquis family. Laurel, laurus nobilis, belongs to the lauraceae family, it is a plant native to Anatolia and the regions of the Mediterranean Sea that over the centuries has been cultivated throughout southern Europe. It is a perennial, evergreen shrub, which can reach 8 m in height, whose leaves are oval and double-colored, bright dark green on the front surface and opaque light green on the back surface, the flowers, which bloom between the months of March and April are very small, light yellow - greenish in color. Finally, it also produces fruits, that is small oval-shaped and black berries. The laurel is among the best known of antiquity, in ancient Greece and ancient Rome it was the symbol of peace and victory both in the military and in sports competitions, its branches were in fact intertwined to create crowns to be placed on the leader of the winners in the Pythian games and of the characters worthy of recognition and esteem, the laurel wreath was therefore the greatest honor. The Pythian games were one of the four Panhellenic games (collective term which indicates the four different sporting events, of a sacred nature, which were held in ancient Greece and which involved all the cities of Hellas. The four events were: The games Olympics, the most important and prestigious games, were held every four years in Olympia nell'Elide, dedicated to Zeus; The Pythian games, which were held every four years near Delphi, dedicated to Apollo; The nemei games, which were held every two years in Nemea, also dedicated to Zeus; The Isthmian games, which were held every two years near Corinth, dedicated to Poseidon), founded around the sixth century BC unlike the Olympic Games, they also included competitions for musicians and poets, who for the occasion competed in real athletic games, the sports competitions that were performed were the same as those held in Olympia. All the winners of the games received a laurel wreath which for the occasion came from the Tempe Valley in Thessaly. The poets who won and received the laurel wreath became "graduate poets" and people worthy of the most immense and royal esteem for this reason next to the word laurus there is the word nobilis. In ancient Greece, the laurel was the plant consecrated to Apollo, the God of music and poetry, lord of Delphi, the city where the first of the six temples erected in his honor was built with laurel branches, it was also the sacred plant consecrated to Asclepius, the son of Apollo, God of medicine and it is for this reason that for several centuries the plant especially the leaves were used as a cure for numerous diseases including the plague. The killing of Python gives life to the second mythological legend, told by Ovid (Publius Ovid Naso 43 BC - 18 AD), which also describes the birth of the laurel. Legend has it that one day the God of the Sun, Apollo, boasted to the God of Love, Cupid, that he had managed to kill the snake Python with the greatest ease and, proud of himself and his means, mocked the weapons of Cupid, bow and arrows. Cupid resentful of Apollo's behavior, decided to show him how powerful he was and hit him with a golden arrow, the arrow capable of making the first divine or mortal person fall madly in love with the eye. The god Apollo, unaware of the story, placed his first glance on a nymph, Daphne, priestess of Gaea and daughter of the river god Ladone. When Cupid saw who Apollo had fallen in love with, that is, the nymph Daphne decided to hit her with a lead arrow, or the arrow that made love escape. A young mortal, Leucippus, was also in love with the nymph Daphne, who disguised himself as a woman in order to approach his beloved. Apollo learned of the story, to get rid of his rival, suggested to the nymphs to take one of their ritual baths (a type of bath in which the nymphs participated completely naked). In this way Leucippus was unmasked and killed by the nymphs themselves. Having the free field Apollo declared his love to Daphne but, this rejected him and ran away terrified. Apollo chased her and when he was about to reach her near the river Peneus, Daphne in despair invoked the help of Gaea and her father Ladone. Both of them helped by transforming it into a laurel tree. It was from that moment that the laurel became an evergreen plant consecrated to the divine Apollo, who is depicted with a wreath of intertwined laurel branches.

The second coat of arms of Urside is inspired by the coat of arms of the noble family of the Regent. While the original one depicts two bears with a bomb thar rapresent the Norman an Nordic descendent of the family of the Grand Marquis. The URSIDE coat of arms depicts a bear with the motto "Habere Non Haberi" by the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, which means "to possess, not to be possessed". The colors of the coat of arms reflect those of the flag, red, black and white. In the center there is the grizzly bear representing strength, but there are also variants that contain both the other two bears and the ursidae trio. The bear species is the symbol of the nation as well as a national animal. Bears are traditionally symbolises bravery, valour, strength, and royalty.

National Anthem The March Ursides - Composed by Wolfsangel Tod