Gallawa

Gallawa was a large confederation of Christianized Gaelic tribes and kingdoms that existed in the north of modern Dericania and south of modern Fiannria from the late 4th to 8th centuries AD. Gallawa was originally conceived as a loose alliance of Gaelic polities which had both broken into and settled Great Levantia from the north, those who had lived as foederati subjects in specific lands of Dericania, and a smaller number of mostly uncontacted tribes living in the hills and deep forested parts of northeaster Dericania. The alliance seems to have been intended as a means to consolidate Gaelic holdings in previously Great Levantine lands, but the alliance persisted beyond the latter's collapse. Gallawa supplanted Great Levantia as the major power in Dericania by around 450 AD, and its mandate switched from defensive to offensive, expanding its borders and incorporating other tribes under its sway by force of arms. Increasingly, the confederate nature of the alliance became centralized under the control of a family that would become known as the Conine dynasty, who were responsible for leading Gallawa through the collapse of the Levantines. Gallawa experienced a major population boom at the end of the 7th century and began rapid and aggressive expansion, particularly against the Latin League and Hištanšahr, the latter with limited success. Following decades of skirmishing and raids, King Conchobar lead the armies of Gallawa west into the former heartlands of Great Levantia. Although initial successes by the Latin League under the leadership of Gaius Julius Cicurinus slowed Gallawa's advance, his replacement by the Latin League resulted in its complete destruction as Gallawa overcame most of the Latinic cities in the Valley. Following his peaceful seizure of Urceopolis, Conchobar reformed Gallawa into the Levantine Empire, which would be ruled by the Conine dynasty until its dissolution in 917 into the Southern, Western, and Eastern Levantine kingdoms.