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Prior to the arrival of the [[Garán people]] to Great Ardmore, a wide variety of people are thought to have lived on the island and the adjoining parts of the archipelago. [[Adonerii]] cities were established on the island by 600 BC, representing the furthest northern outposts of that civilization. The Adonerii cities were relatively sparsely populated compared to the rest of the [[Latinic people|Latinic]] world, and few historical records survive from them. From what records do exist, historians believe the islands were mostly populated by a [[Paleo-Levantine peoples|Paleo-Levantine people]] likely known as the [[Paleo-Levantine_peoples#Ardmen|Ardmen]], from which the islands get their name. Very little is known about the Ardmen, though they continued to inhabit the interior of the island when it became a tributary of [[Great Levantia]] in ca. 50 BC. Great Levantine influence on the island was limited, with the few urban centers largely sending tribute to [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] with little to no Levantine military influence on the island. Like much of the area, the earliest peoples of Great Ardmore - both Latinic and Ardmen - relied on fishing. The islands were not especially prosperous and were not along the main, [[Crotona]]-based trade route between [[Sarpedon]] and [[Levantia]], and were considered a backwater during antiquity.

As [[Great Levantia]] entered terminal decline, the region of what is today [[Carolina]] became a pourous frontier which saw the emergence of the [[Garán people]] as a blend of invading [[Gothic people]] and ~~indigenous~~ [[Gaelic people]]. Continued invasions of Goths lead many borderlanders to seek new lands elsewhere, and the first Garán warbands are thought to have arrived in Great Ardmore in the late 400s in small numbers, serving as mercenaries by the coastal cities against the Ardmen tribes in the interior. A major invasion of the island by Garáns occurred at some point in the mid-6th century, with the lightly populated island easily overcome by the numerous mainland invaders. The Ardmen and Latins, long thought by historians to have been slaughtered, were likely incorporated into the new social system, and many Ardmoris today are thought to have some descent from Ardmen.

As [[Great Levantia]] entered terminal decline, the region of what is today [[Carolina]] became a pourous frontier which saw the emergence of the [[Garán people]] as a blend of invading [[Gothic people]] and local [[Gaelic people|Gaels]] and Istroyans who had been resettled from [[Tromarine]] centuries before. Continued invasions of Goths lead many borderlanders to seek new lands elsewhere, and the first Garán warbands are thought to have arrived in Great Ardmore in the late 400s in small numbers, serving as mercenaries by the coastal cities against the Ardmen tribes in the interior. A major invasion of the island by Garáns occurred at some point in the mid-6th century, with the lightly populated island easily overcome by the numerous mainland invaders. The Ardmen and Latins, long thought by historians to have been slaughtered, were likely incorporated into the new social system, and many Ardmoris today are thought to have some descent from Ardmen.

===Establishment of kingdom and medieval period===

''Main Article: [[Medieval Ardmore]]''

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 Prior to the arrival of the [[Garán people]] to Great Ardmore, a wide variety of people are thought to have lived on the island and the adjoining parts of the archipelago. [[Adonerii]] cities were established on the island by 600 BC, representing the furthest northern outposts of that civilization. The Adonerii cities were relatively sparsely populated compared to the rest of the [[Latinic people|Latinic]] world, and few historical records survive from them. From what records do exist, historians believe the islands were mostly populated by a [[Paleo-Levantine peoples|Paleo-Levantine people]] likely known as the [[Paleo-Levantine_peoples#Ardmen|Ardmen]], from which the islands get their name. Very little is known about the Ardmen, though they continued to inhabit the interior of the island when it became a tributary of [[Great Levantia]] in ca. 50 BC. Great Levantine influence on the island was limited, with the few urban centers largely sending tribute to [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] with little to no Levantine military influence on the island. Like much of the area, the earliest peoples of Great Ardmore - both Latinic and Ardmen - relied on fishing. The islands were not especially prosperous and were not along the main, [[Crotona]]-based trade route between [[Sarpedon]] and [[Levantia]], and were considered a backwater during antiquity.
-As [[Great Levantia]] entered terminal decline, the region of what is today [[Carolina]] became a pourous frontier which saw the emergence of the [[Garán people]] as a blend of invading [[Gothic people]] and indigenous [[Gaelic people]]. Continued invasions of Goths lead many borderlanders to seek new lands elsewhere, and the first Garán warbands are thought to have arrived in Great Ardmore in the late 400s in small numbers, serving as mercenaries by the coastal cities against the Ardmen tribes in the interior. A major invasion of the island by Garáns occurred at some point in the mid-6th century, with the lightly populated island easily overcome by the numerous mainland invaders. The Ardmen and Latins, long thought by historians to have been slaughtered, were likely incorporated into the new social system, and many Ardmoris today are thought to have some descent from Ardmen.
+As [[Great Levantia]] entered terminal decline, the region of what is today [[Carolina]] became a pourous frontier which saw the emergence of the [[Garán people]] as a blend of invading [[Gothic people]] and local [[Gaelic people|Gaels]] and Istroyans who had been resettled from [[Tromarine]] centuries before. Continued invasions of Goths lead many borderlanders to seek new lands elsewhere, and the first Garán warbands are thought to have arrived in Great Ardmore in the late 400s in small numbers, serving as mercenaries by the coastal cities against the Ardmen tribes in the interior. A major invasion of the island by Garáns occurred at some point in the mid-6th century, with the lightly populated island easily overcome by the numerous mainland invaders. The Ardmen and Latins, long thought by historians to have been slaughtered, were likely incorporated into the new social system, and many Ardmoris today are thought to have some descent from Ardmen.
 ===Establishment of kingdom and medieval period===
 ''Main Article: [[Medieval Ardmore]]''

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