Zender (Sultanate)

This article is about the Sultanate of Zender. For the city of the same name, please see Zender (City).
Zender is a Sultanate of the Kaspari Empire. It is located in the southeastern corner of the empire, where the Pogardi Mountains and the Hulman Mountains meet. The eastern half of the sultanate is steep mountain slopes, while the western half is a wide, flat valley that becomes a seasonal marshland (known as the Kezzaran) in the north.
==Map==
Map of Zender
==History==
The area that would become the Sultanate of Zender had long been home to nomadic tribes of Ushpali herders. These herders began founding permanent villages in the valley of the Thrugga and Koba Rivers in the 7th century.
In 712, the city of Zender was founded by Alispar Zend, a tribal chief. Before long, Zender would become the largest and most powerful settlement in the area. By the mid-ninth century, the city of Zender had established control of nearly all of the Ushpali tribes living south of the Bhaksarri Range. The lords of Zender gradually brought the wild mountain tribes of the upper river valleys under their control. By 950, Zender maintained dominion over much of the area of the current Sultanate and the lower valleys of Kukoba as well.
In 1003, an expansionist regime in the neighboring kingdom of Vadruh launched an assault on Zender's castles in Kukoba. A series of battles was fought, and the armies of Zender were forced to withdraw back down the Koba River. Zender would never again maintain control in Kukoba.
Tensions between Zender and Vadruh remained high in the decades following the war, and though a few skirmishes were fought in the lower valleys, no territory was exchanged. In 1063, Kaspar Musuf exploited these tensions to bring Zender under the control of his own empire. Promising both to protect Zender and to help the Zenderese regain control over the land they had lost sixty years ago. The lords of Zender quickly acceded to Kaspari control, and the Sultanate of Zender was established.
Although the valleys of Kukoba were retained by Vadruh at this time, Kaspar Musuf's representatives promised not to march their much larger army against Vadruh in exchange for a piece of fertile territory at the confluence of the Thrugga and Belan Rivers. This territory was added to the Sultanate of Zender (and thus the Kaspari Empire) in 1064.
Category:Locations in the Kaspari Empire