The Southern Marches

Principality consisting of Isvespia and Nostenkil 640-880. Originally the Southern Marches was a county in Tulana  equal to present-day Nostenkil. But when the Iluvar invaded Tulana in 599 the count was made a duke and Isvespia was added to his fief. The Iluvar conquered all except the Southern marches, however, and the duke swore allegiance to the king of Ontaine, who now was liege lord of Nostenkil. Following the Kangrisorn Prophecy of 722, the Southern Marches broke all ties with Ontaine, as the Ontainian barbarian tribes plundered Nostenkil on their way north regardless, the former duke now being titled prince. In 860, the Prince of the Southern Marches promised that anyone who would conquer land from either the Iluvar or the Ontainians would get to keep it. And when most of the former Tulana had been regained, the kingdom of Vesland  was declared in 880.