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The northern isles of the Ardmori Archipelago began to be incorporated into the Ardmori kingdom after it attained independence in 1004. By the late 11th century, Garán Gaelic settlers from Ardmore had completely displaced the Gothic population that had preceded them. | The northern isles of the Ardmori Archipelago began to be incorporated into the Ardmori kingdom after it attained independence in 1004. By the late 11th century, Garán Gaelic settlers from Ardmore had completely displaced the Gothic population that had preceded them. | ||
In early mediæval times, the northern isles of Ardmore were widely considered a backwater within a backwater. The land was divided among small clan-based chiefdoms with undemarcated boundaries. It was common for clansmen to conduct raids along the Calinthian and Urcean seacoasts to capture livestock using {{wp|longships}}. By the 900s AD, however, raids against the Levantine mainland fell by the wayside as Ardmori violence turned inward and clans increasingly fought one another over territory. This prompted construction of the first proper castles and spurred the adoption of Levantine norms of land tenure and knighthood. | |||
From 933 to 981, the North Island was the site of the [[Medieval_Ardmore#North_Island_War|North Island War]] between the Duchy of Rosmore and the County of Kilinmuir. | |||
===Civil war and republican period=== | ===Civil war and republican period=== | ||