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The recorded history of what would become Burgundiemarch begins ca. 600 BC, as [[Adonerii]] explorers from [[Urceopolis]] and elsewhere launched expeditions east of the [[Ionian Mountains]] to chart the region and discover the peoples living there. The results of these expeditions do not survive, but are referenced in several other works from the 7th century BC, though modern scholarship is unclear as to how far south these expeditions ventured. Regardless, the historical consensus based on these records place [[Gaelic people]] in Burgundiemarch, primarily organized as "fierce" hill tribes involved primarily in hunter-gather type activities as well as raiding the newly established [[Istroyan civilization|Istroyan]] territories further to the southeast. The marshlands of the area made it unsuitable for early farming and subject to consistent population turnover, as dominant tribes monopolizing limited resources typically meant that weaker tribes would have to migrate eastward. Burgundiemarch, along with the rest of the [[Ionian Mountains|Ionian valley]], were subjugated by [[Urceopolis]] and the [[Adonerii]] in the 550s and 540s BC, though the Adonerii phalanx was largely unsuitable for the hilly, marshy terrain of Burgundiemarch and received considerable difficulty pacifying the territory until supported by [[Istroyan]] allies in approximately 542 BC. From then on, the territory was subject to intermittent [[Latinic people|Latinic]] settlement until the fall of [[Great Levantia]] in 502 AD, but during the millennium-long period it was under Great Levantine control, the territory rarely saw much in the way of development or attention, and by 1 AD it was once again largely occupied by subservient Gaelic tribes practicing subsistence agriculture where the land could support it.