Westmarch

thumb|300px|As seen on this map of the Shire
The Westmarch was a region in western Eriador that was a part of the Shire.
==History==
In FO 31 (SR 1452), King Elessar granted the Shire a stretch of new land: this reached from the ancient western borders of the Shire, the White Downs, to the Tower Hills. Thereafter, the area between the downs and the hills became known as the Westmarch.
The eldest daughter of Mayor Samwise Gamgee, Elanor the Fair, married Fastred of Greenholm, and they moved to the Westmarch settling in the town of Under-towers at the foot of the Tower Hills. After the passing of Master Samwise, they and their children became known as the Fairbairns of the Towers, and the Red Book of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins passed into their keeping, becoming known as the Red Book of Westmarch.
In terms of governance, the Westmarch was a region of itself, and like Buckland across the river Brandywine, it was not part of any of the four Farthings of the Shire.The Atlas of Middle-earth, Regional Maps, "The Shire" The Fairbairns governed the region as Wardens of Westmarch.
==In adaptations==
===The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey===
In the first film in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy, Westmarch is marked in the upper left hand corner of a map despite not being called such until after the beginning of the Fourth Age.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Wesmark
Albanian 	Kufiri perëndimor
Amharic 	ምዕራባዊ ድንበር
Arabic 	الحدود الغربية
Armenian 	Արևմտյան սահման
Azerbaijani 	Qərb sərhədi
Basque 	Mendebaldeko muga
Belarusian Cyrillic	Заходняя мяжа
Bengali 	পশ্চিম সীমান্ত
Bosnian 	Zapadna granica
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Западна граница
Burmese 	အနောက်ဘက်နယ်စပ်
Cambodian 	ព្រំដែនខាងលិច
Catalan 	Frontera de l'Oest
Cebuano 	Ang utlanan sa Kasadpan
Chinese 	西境
Cornish 	Emlow West
Corsican 	Cunfini uccidentale
Croatian 	Zapadna granica
Czech 	Západní hranice
Danish 	Vestmark
Dutch 	Westmark
Esperanto 	Okcidenta landlimo
Estonian 	Läänepiir
Faroese 	Vesturmark
Finnish 	Länsikaira
French 	Marche de l'Ouest
Galician 	Fronteira occidental
Georgian 	დასავლეთის საზღვარი
German 	Westmark
Greek 	Δυτικά σύνορα
Gujarati 	પશ્ચિમ સરહદ
Haitian Creole 	Fwontyè lwès yo
Hausa 	Iyakar yamma
Hebrew 	שפילת-המערב
Hindi 	पश्चिमी सीमा
Hungarian 	Nyugati határ
Icelandic 	Vestur landamæri
Indonesian 	Perbatasan barat
Irish Gaelic 	Teorainn an Iarthair
Italian 	Confini Occidentali
Japanese 	西部国境
Kannada 	ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಗಡಿ
Kazakh 	Батыс шекарасы (Cyrillic) Batıs şekarası (Latin)
Korean 	서부 국경
Kurdish 	Sînorê rojava (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	батыш чек ара
Laotian 	ຊາຍແດນຕາເວັນຕົກ
Latin 	Terminus Occidentem
Latvian 	Rietumu robeža
Lithuanian 	Vakarų siena
Luxembourgish 	Westengrenz
Macedonian Cyrillic	Западна граница
Malaysian 	Sempadan barat
Maltese 	Fruntiera tal-Punent
Manx 	Yn Cree Heear
Marathi 	पश्चिम सीमा
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Баруун хил
Nepalese 	पश्चिमी सीमा
Norwegian 	Vestgrensen
Old English 	West-hring
Pashto 	لویدیځ مارچ
Persian 	مارچ غربی
Polish 	Marchia Zachodnia
Portuguese 	Fronteira ocidental
Punjabi 	ਪੱਛਮੀ ਸਰਹੱਦ
Romanian 	Frontiera de vest
Russian 	Западный Кром
Scottish Gaelic 	Crìochan an iar
Serbian 	Западна граница (Cyrillic) Zapadna granica (Latin)
Sindhi 	اولھندي سرحد
Sinhalese 	බටහිර දේශ සීමාව
Slovak 	Západná hranica
Slovenian 	Zahodna meja
Somalian 	Xadka galbeedka
Spanish 	Frontera del Oeste
Swahili 	Mpaka wa Magharibi
Swedish 	Västmark
Tajik Cyrillic 	Сарҳади Ғарбӣ
Tamil 	மேற்கு எல்லை
Telugu 	పశ్చిమ సరిహద్దు
Thai 	ชายแดนตะวันตก
Turkish 	Batı sınır
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Західне Пограниччя
Urdu 	مغربی سرحد
Uzbek 	Ғарбий чегара (Cyrillic) G'arbiy chegara (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Biên giới phía tây
Welsh 	Ffin y gorllewin
Xhosa 	Umda wasentshona
Yiddish 	מערב גרענעץ
Yoruba 	Aala Oorun
Zulu 	Umngcele waseNtshonalanga
==References==
de:Westmark
nl:Westmark
pl:Marchia Zachodnia
ru:Западный Кром
Category:Regions of the Shire
Category:Eriador
Category:Westmarch