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[[Latinic people|Latin]] settlers from the [[Adonerii]] arrived relatively late in terms of Vallosi settlement, with the first Latin colonies appearing in modern [[Porta Bianca]] in roughly 650 BC. Unlike mainland [[Sarpedon]] and [[Levantia]], Vallos was remote from [[Urlazio]] and required the development of fully fledged cities in modern [[Cartadania]] before regular colonial travel as far west as Vallos was economically and logistically feasible. Nonetheless, the arrival of the Latins heralded the first wave of "true cities", highly organized hierarchical urban areas. The relatively fertile ground of Vallos was an attractive colonial site for the next several centuries, with refugees fleeing political upheavel in Urlazio forming a major wave of settlement in ca 500 BC. At this time, the Latin colonies remained far more urbanized than either the Tainean or Polynesians, allowing smaller but stronger polities to form around an urbanized core on the east coast. By 100 BC, further waves of Latin colonists began to slow, but Latins were firmly established on the eastern part of Vallos facing both the [[Tainean Sea]] and [[Kindreds Sea]]. Despite this, much of the interior land under the possession of Latin city-states were still farmed and occupied by Tainean people.

The arrival of three separate groups of settlers established an extremely large range of polities throughout Vallos by 1 AD, with Tainean and Latin polities being roughly equal in number and Polynesians ruling the south in larger realms.

===Loose Caphiric hegemony===

The warring states period necessarily invited outside intervention as the various states tried to court powerful allies on [[Sarpedon]]. By [[600]], the situation drew the attention of the [[Caphiria|Caphiric]] [[First Imperium]], still at its relative zenith of power. Diplomats from Caphiria began to arrive on Vallos at ca 600, followed by promises of tribute and alliance between Caphiria and local powers. The First Imperium, contrasted with later Caphirian states, aligned itself equally with disparate Tainean, Latin, and Polynesian states, not showing favoritism necessarily to the Latin city-states. As tribute began to flow east across the [[Tainean Sea]], leaders in Caphiria recognized the potential value of further intervention in Vallos. In [[702]], Imperator XXX personally led a campaign at the head of roughly 23,000 across the Tainean into Vallos, an unprecedently large military for Vallos. The Imperial army, in support of various local polities, waged a campaign of extreme violence, and due to the size and training of the force it won every battle it fought and could not be opposed by any local power. Rather than directly annex territory, the Imperium reorganized Vallos into eleven tributary states out of the previous dozens of polities and city-states. Critically, the new eleven tributaries did not consider local cultural lines but instead were created on geographic features allowing ease of governance. The so-called "Undecimvirate" established loose Caphiric hegemony over Vallos, though none of it fell under direct Imperial control.