Free City of Falkenborg

The Free City of Falkenborg was a city-state centred around the large town of Falkenborg in western Gehemnia between the 2nd Century BCE and the Great Gap.
== History ==
Falkenborg, like the surrounding towns of Tangerkau, Taushut and Heckelborg, was founded by the Armedeans in the 3rd and 4th Centuries BCE as a farming and trading town.
The shockwaves of the Toumanian Wars during the mid-3rd Century BCE worried the town elders, and Falkenborg was the second of four cities to form their own nation-states for self-defence. It followed the lead of the Free City of Penzlin to the southeast, and had close links initially while the much larger city of Penzlin helped the Falkenborger government get on its feet.
At the turn of the 1st Century BCE, Falkenborg, Penzlin, Ankershagen and Uckeritz formed an alliance to repel any invaders and this alliance was tested early on by the Gehemnians when they arrived from unknown lands north of the Yerlenzee. Volkmar's War ended in a decisive defeat for the Gehemnians under the eponymous Volkmar of Gehemnia, and was one of the factors contributing to their switch from a focus on war to one on trade.
The newly-peaceful neighbouring Gehemnians swiftly filtered into Falkenborger society, and the Free City grew close to the burgeoning Gehemnian Republic of Lintzee, a merchant republic on the nearby coast.
Falkenborg was peaceful for the next four hundred years. It slowly grew apart from its allies Penzlin and Ankershagen, which were both fiercely independent. As Lintzee grew stronger it began to coddle several of its smaller neighbours, including Falkenborg, and drew them closer to its bosom. By the beginning of the Great Gap Falkenborg was part of the Republic of Lintzee in all but name, and following the Gap events had led Falkenborg to resign its independence entirely.
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