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Hendalarsk has only existed as a unified country for a little over four centuries, and even this unity has been punctuated by repeated bouts of civil war. Prior to unification, the history of the country along the Vandarch littoral and east of the Kupferberg was very different to that in the southwest and the Zalgistal, although closely related Gothic identities and the relative ease of river transport have meant that the country's present territory has been loosely culturally and economically linked for many hundreds of years. | Hendalarsk has only existed as a unified country for a little over four centuries, and even this unity has been punctuated by repeated bouts of civil war. Prior to unification, the history of the country along the Vandarch littoral and east of the Kupferberg was very different to that in the southwest and the Zalgistal, although closely related Gothic identities and the relative ease of river transport have meant that the country's present territory has been loosely culturally and economically linked for many hundreds of years. | ||
The | The three defining processes in Hendalarskara prehistory and early medieval history were the Gothic migration from the ''Urheimat'' in what is now [[Carna]] from c.1000BC onwards, the ssecond wave of Gothic migration driven by turmoil in what is now northern [[Fiannria]] from c.300AD, and the eighth-century AD [[Khunyer]] migration from northeastern Levantia sparked by turmoil on the frontier of [[Great Levantia]]. These migrations, and the gradual acculturation of those peoples over whom the migrants came to rule, permanently shifted the cultural balance of the Zalgis, Herne and Werdasch basins away from their previous dominance by [[Nünsyak]] tribes, with the autochthonous Nünsyak henceforth confined to the inland Herne basin. Unlike their fellow Goths to the east (including the Werdascher), the Hendalarskaren were slow to Christianise. An initial period of missionary success in the early seventh century was violently overturned, and it took the hegemony of the Khunyer over the upper Zalgistal from the mid-eighth century onwards (the Khunyer having previously been Christianised during their time on the Great Levantine frontier) for the syncretic [[Hendalarskara Catholic Church|Hendalarskara Catholic]] faith to develop. The Lordship of the Great Valley, the Hendalarskara ''Urstaat'', converted in 890 AD, asserting its independence from the crumbling Khunyer realm in the process and thereby marking the birth of truly Hendalarskara history. | ||
Hendalarsk (the Lordship began to use the name from around 950 onwards) was nonetheless a relatively minor player in the politics of the great rivers for centuries afterwards. It intermittently paid tribute to both Khunyeria and [[Txöll'Ara]] for decades, and the resources of its rulers paled in comparison to other Gothic polities like the [[Archonate of Zalgisbeck]] and the [[Werdascher Empire]]. Hendalarskara dukes nevertheless gradually consolidated control over the upper Zalgis and the southwestern foothills of the Kupferberg, reaching a détente with the reduced but resurgent Khunyer kingdom in the process. | Hendalarsk (the Lordship began to use the name from around 950 onwards) was nonetheless a relatively minor player in the politics of the great rivers for centuries afterwards. It intermittently paid tribute to both Khunyeria and [[Txöll'Ara]] for decades, and the resources of its rulers paled in comparison to other Gothic polities like the [[Archonate of Zalgisbeck]] and the [[Werdascher Empire]]. Hendalarskara dukes nevertheless gradually consolidated control over the upper Zalgis and the southwestern foothills of the Kupferberg, reaching a détente with the reduced but resurgent Khunyer kingdom in the process. | ||