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Tarsinar is the capital city of Demirhanlı Devleti and the second largest city in the country. Before the movement of the capital from Ardeşehir in 1916 it was the capital of province. Since then the city has rapidly grown in population as well as in area.

Tarsinar was also the home for the World Fair in 1916 which was meant to promote a new capital. The buildings constructed in then plains of Lüleburgun were later rebuilt an now serve govermental purposes.

= Demirhan Empire language policies = In Demirhan Empire, a country of many cultures, language policies were always a subject which causes a lot of emotions and almost never leaves entirely the political debate. First regulations established middle Turquese, written with Mazanic script, as the language of the government, however the real language policies started during Arıtma process. In 1828 Sultan Mehmet VI issued a decree according to which Empire switched the writing script to Romanish alphabet. According to regulations Turquese also became the only language of schooling.

Another change came with second Constitution in 1916 when the Empire was officially transformed into federation. As a result additional languages used by local government in education could be decided by provincial or regional councils. At first Aryan language was introduced in the whole region (in 1919), followed by Sherkman in Denglikar province (in 1921). Additionally in 1940 Iviran was introduced in parts of Haderot province. As schooling by private bussiness was disallowed in Demirhan Empire was disallowed until 1993, the other minorities had no right to receive education in and about their languages. Later many private schools operating in Hellanesian, Antharian (southern Romanish), Lorantian, Demirhan Kalmish and even Illyrian were opened.

2021 writing script reform
At 14th February The High Commision of Standarization of Language and Geographical Names (Dil ve Coğrafi İsimlerin Standardizasyon Yüksek Komisyonu, DCİSYK) recommended the change in the Latin writing script because current one is adjusted to the Turquese language and does not allow to accurate represent the names of places inhabited by minorities which may eventually lead to confusion, for example letter h could mean either [h] and [x] phonemes (for comparison look at the table below).

The new writing system sparked controversy. Alireza Eskandari, a member of regional parliament of Aryan region, criticised lack of difference between short and long vowels in Aryan language despite the same system for Turquese language clearly marks that. Dayan Şlomo Hoca, Rabbi of Grand Synagogue in Saabaron, named the new alphabet "a devilish plan which will lead to disappearance of Iviran alphabet which is crucial part of our cultural heritage". Additionally Antharian government protested the alphabet as their writing script uses a comma instead of Demirhan cedilla under some letters.

Despite the obstacles in march the bill passed through parliament and sultan Davut III ratified the law at 21th April of 2021. The new alphabet is supposed to be introduced in public places before the end of the year.

The Demirhan Alphabet
First version of alphabet consisted of 29 letters used to write consistently Turquese language, 2021 version consists of 34 letters and is supposed to accurately represent sounds in all languages native to Demirhan Empire.

Additionally several diphthongs were introduced to represent some locally existing sounds: {|class="wikitable sortable" !2021 version !1826 version !IPA symbol !Comment
 * Dğ, dğ
 * D, d, Dh, dh, Z,z
 * /ð/
 * Existing only in Illyrian (previously written d or dh) and Sherkman (z)
 * Jğ, jğ
 * Gj, gj
 * /ɟ͡ʝ/
 * Used only in Illyrian
 * Ng, ng
 * Ng, ng
 * /ŋ/
 * Nğ, nğ
 * Nj, nj
 * /ɲ/
 * Used only in Illyrian
 * Tğ, tğ
 * Th, th. T, t
 * /θ/
 * Used only in Illyrian and Lorantian
 * Used only in Illyrian
 * Tğ, tğ
 * Th, th. T, t
 * /θ/
 * Used only in Illyrian and Lorantian
 * Used only in Illyrian and Lorantian