| Much of the Urcean "south" - the provinces between [[The Valley (Urcea)|the Valley]], a largely fertile and habitable area, and [[Gassavelia]], which is primarily jungle and tropical - was considered mostly uninhabitable or otherwise undesirable for most of Urcea's history. These provinces - [[Callan]], [[Southmarch]], [[Afoncord]], western [[Ardricampus]], southern [[Yustona]], and part of [[Kingsvale]] have two predominant climates; marshland towards the coast and arid brushland in the interior with little access to water. Foreign to the way of life of [[Levantia]]'s indigineous [[Gaelic people]] and difficult for incoming [[Latinic people|Latins]] during the [[Latin Heroic Age]] left a great majority of this land very sparsely populated, with small oasis and coastal cities and towns making up the majority of human settlement. Technological advances during the 18th and 19th century made settlement possible, however, due to the possibility of dams, drainage, and eventually megaproject-style dams in the interior. Interest in settling the area began in earnest during the reign of [[History_of_Urcea_(1798-1902)#End_of_Imperial_dynasty_and_Niall.27s_reforms|King Niall V]] in the 1810s as a location to resettle some previous Ómestaderoi who had settled in [[Carolina]] but had since fled. Niall's interest in the area was improving the viability and convenience of transportation networks through the region down to [[Canaery]] and [[Gassavelia]], and it was thought that improving the population of the area might naturally create better infrastructure. This very first wave was mostly settled in the oasis towns, but locals and newcomers alike began to complain about conditions and the [[Concilium Daoni]] began to investigate the humanitarian conditions in the area by the end of the 1810s. With many Caroline Ómestaderoi again facing the possibility of being relocated, Niall turned to a group of ambitious scientists and engineers who promised to pump out a portion of land in [[Callan]] which would not only make it habitable but might make it good farmland. The project was completed by 1823 and was a great success, and the Caroline Ómestaderoi were settled in boom towns along the Callan coast. The possibility of reclaiming lands for profitable use lead to a boom industry of innovative - and often fraudulent - methods to make both marsh and arid lands habitable, leading to rampant land speculation. The pressures of the boom and several high profile frauds lead the [[Concilium Daoni]] to officially pass a new amendment to the Leonine Land Decree in 1831, appropriating the vast majority of land in the frontier areas for Ómestaderoi use while compensating the owners. While the land was available, very few settlers began to move in and many moved to promising lands in [[Transionia]] following the conclusion of the [[Third Caroline War]]. This changed in the 1860s during the [[Aedanicad]], as [[Aedanicus VIII]] prioritized the contruction of what were then considered megaprojects, massive irrigation projects including some of the world's largest dams built up until that point. These projects lead to massive waves of Ómestaderoi - many historians believe it was the largest of the waves - to settle in the frontier areas in the mid-1860s through mid-1880s. The growth of these areas outpaced the expansion of public administration (which was extremely complex and unclear prior to the passage of the [[Administrative Reorganization Act of 1892]]), leading to a "wild" reputation and frontier justice becoming common in these areas. Ómestaderoi settlement began to slow in the 1880s as the nation's economy slowed and attractive parcels became hard to find, and the onset of the [[Red Interregnum]] turned the area into a heavily militarized zone. The classic age of the frontier in this region continued on until the late 1900s, when the restoration regime of [[Patrick III of Urcea|Patrick III]] made establishing coherent law and order and public administration a top priority in the frontier region. The frontier was eventually the site of considerable [[Housing in Urcea|residential projects]] as well as major railways and highways in the immediate lead up to the [[Second Great War]], finally ending the "southern wilds" period and bringing the frontier into full integration with the rest of the country.
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