Kamuria

Kamuria is a highland region in northeastern Orithea. Geographically it consists of an elevated plateau nearly four hundred miles across, surrounded by ranges of rolling hills and ridged by mountainous outcroppings in its western half (these mountains mark the easternmost extent of Shandara’s huge interlocking ranges). In the south, it drops down to the Plain of Urem; in the north, to Tirnavon and the Sea of Jalmar’s coastal strip. The Kamurian highlands are mostly covered by dense coniferous forest, though in some places the pines and yew-trees give way to birch and oak. In far western Kamuria, the landscape becomes semi-arid, with the thick forest yielding to drier and scrubbier upland woods.
The Kamurians are an unusual and idiosyncratic people, with their own dialect of Tuvai that is very hard for outsiders to understand, and their own peculiar traditions and cultic practices. Some say they are a product of intermixing between ancient tribes of the Uremites and the Ullyrs (which might mean they have Thelbir ancestry); others say they descend from Daare Karsha people who came down from the interior of Shandara in some long-ago age. Some even claim they have a bit of dwarven blood in their veins. 
The greater part of Kamuria is subject to the rule of the Kirdan Empire. It was first absorbed into the empire as part of the conquests of Marotai I (father of the even more renowned Marotai II), who then used the region as the launching point for his unsuccessful wars against Tirnavon. The conquered territory was almost all lost during the short, disastrous reign of Abazunai the Apostate, whose overthrow allowed the Kamurians to break away from Baribur's rule and the Tirnavenes to then push far south into the region. However, a few decades later, Tembekai II reclaimed much of the area for the empire, setting the boundaries of Kirdan Kamuria that are roughly still in place today. 
A small northern section of Kamuria is still held by the Kingdom of Tirnavon, a remnant of the days when Kirdan control lapsed. Some scattered independant chiefdoms and principalities lie in the margin between the Kirdan and Tirnavene parts, as well as in the region's far west where the terrain becomes drier and more mountainous.