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Terra was formed in December 2010 and lasted until September 2012. It was originally founded by 4 members.



Terra was created around mid December 2010 and at the time was called PANAM. Brazil and Argentina had withdrawn their membership from the PHOENIX alliance in the previous weeks. This freed both countries up to begin discussing a possible alliance with the USA. Brazil and the USA were the first to solidify the alliance with the signing of a Mutual Protection Pact, which shortly thereafter was cemented by the joining of Argentinian, thus giving rise to the Pan-American flavor of the alliance.

However, not long after, additional countries expressed interest in joining and this would lead to it becoming a global phenomenon. Japan was the first nation outside of the Americas to join PANAM in January 2011. Later in the month, Canada would also become a signatory. France, the first European country to enter the alliance, did so in the first week of February, shortly joined by Turkey on February 8, 2011 and Russia entered on February 22, 2011. The United Kingdom entered the alliance on February 24, 2011.



This article from back in the day provides some insight into the eUK joining what was initially called Terra and is worth a read.



On the 25th of April the UK would withdraw from the alliance, citing a number of grievances in regard to what it alleged was a subordinate status to EDEN.
This wonderful article from our very own Mr Woldy goes into a lot more detail for those of you who are interested.

This charge was denied by other member-states, who alleged that the UK placed its own agenda before that of the Terra/EDEN joint-alliance as it faced multiple attacks and heavy loses in World War V. In particular the UK had become embroiled in the internal politics of Ireland, an EDEN member, and had expressed a desire to invade or to politically takeover the neighbouring country. UK being proposed as NE by USA.



Naming Origin
Originally known as PANAM, the alliance was named as a result of the membership of principle countries Brazil, the USA, and Argentina. This was (at the time) the second time an alliance adopted the PANAM moniker, the first now known for historical purposes as the Pan American Alliance (PAA or "Original PANAM"). An offshoot of Mexican foreign policy, and at the time also called PANAM, the original Pan American Alliance dissolved before 2008, after which its member group split to then establish much of the now defunct ATLANTIS and PEACE alliances.

From the beginning PANAM was not intended to become the formal name of the alliance and a community review took place soon after to find an alternative name. Despite the name having already been used for another historical alliance that had little in common with the current group, member citizens found the PANAM name dull, unoriginal, and most importantly, inaccurate. At the time at least half of the alliance's members were not even in the Americas.

On March 20, 2011 the PANAM alliance was officially renamed to Terra, with officials citing a desire to move past its American roots and establish itself as a global alliance made up of countries fed up with the then current two-alliance system. To this end, Terra decided to pursue friendship and cooperation with EDEN in order to combat the growing ONE threat.

Hmm, two alliance system and smaller offshoots, does this remind you of anyone?




So there we have it!
Join is next time when we look at the eUK's next big venture into alliancehood, Order of New EWorld (or, ONE)

And for more in depth sources visit the wikipedia page, https://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Terra

That's all for now
o7 eUK
Aaron Mark Daniels
eUK Mofa, and Friend