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=== History of the Definition === | === History of the Definition === | ||
For the first centuries of its use, the term's definitions was vague and variable. It most commonly referred to the strip of land between Cëlac and Brethan south of [[Lágon]], in the time of [[Years of Turmoil|Olgish clan wars]] roughly equivalent to the Olgish sphere of influence, purposefully excluding the [[Genes in the [[River Ilathw|Ilathw]] plains, the [[Western Sosks|Sosks]] and [[Auls]] in [[Oakshire]], the [[Edhennín]], and [[Morineb]], and the [[Noldorinians]] in the later [[Orinion|Brethanian lands]]. The first full definition of the extent of Belkondíl is given more than a thousand years later in the [[Claims of Enethin]] to the land rightfully subject to the [[Crown of Ortûlék]]. According to this claim, Belkondíl contains all area between the Ilathw and [River Besokan|Besokan]] Rivers, including the islands of [[Corbin]] and the [[Mairn]]. This definition was retained in all sources following [[Enethin|Enethins]] time, including the [[Lonsorigi]] in their portrayal of [[Early Days|early history]]. | For the first centuries of its use, the term's definitions was vague and variable. It most commonly referred to the strip of land between Cëlac and Brethan south of [[Lágon]], in the time of [[Years of Turmoil|Olgish clan wars]] roughly equivalent to the Olgish sphere of influence, purposefully excluding the [[Genes in the [[River Ilathw|Ilathw]] plains, the [[Western Sosks|Sosks]] and [[Auls]] in [[Oakshire]], the [[Edhennín]], and [[Morineb]], and the [[Noldorinians]] in the later [[Orinion|Brethanian lands]]. The first full definition of the extent of Belkondíl is given more than a thousand years later in the [[Claims of Enethin]] of E.B. 19 to the land rightfully subject to the [[Crown of Ortûlék]]. According to this claim, Belkondíl contains all area between the Ilathw and [[River Besokan|Besokan]] Rivers, including the islands of [[Corbin]] and the [[Mairn]]. This definition was retained in all sources following [[Enethin|Enethins]] time, including the [[Lonsorigi]] in their portrayal of [[Early Days|early history]]. | ||
=== Climate and Vegetation === | === Climate and Vegetation === | ||
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=== Landmarks and Settlements === | === Landmarks and Settlements === | ||
Belkondíl is the core land of Olgish legend, and many of its cities and landmarks have a great historic significance in Olgish culture. Ortûlék itself, the fabeled point of origin of the Olgs, Genes, and Auls and later seat of the Kings of Belkondíl, is part of its heartland, located in the plain of the same name on the western bank of the Cëlac between the Rouningwood and the forest of Kali-Tonin. | Belkondíl is the core land of Olgish legend, and many of its cities and landmarks have a great historic significance in Olgish culture. Ortûlék itself, the fabeled point of origin of the Olgs, Genes, and Auls and later seat of the Kings of Belkondíl, is part of its heartland, located in the plain of the same name on the western bank of the Cëlac between the Rouningwood and the forest of Kali-Tonin. The two other major Olgish royal seats are located not far, along the course of the Cëlac: Lágon, afoot the mountains on the northern edge of Belkondíl, capital of the mythical first Olgish Kingdom and a major political player even into Lécaronian times, and Soskilón, the epicentre of Olgish-Soskish contact and capital of Lécaron after Ortûlék was abandonend during the King's Plague of E.B. 1326. | ||
East of the Cëlac and the marshland hemming the course of the River Nellac, Belkondíl finds its most lush and fertile region, the Edhennín, homeland of the Western Sosks and granary to most of the old Olgish domain. The most important eastern harbour, Iliston, is located here, as is the old and symbolically significant border town of Singrall and the contended-for Isle of Golim. They are bordered to the north by Oakshire, the last autonomous Soskish polity of Elondor, and to the south by the uplands of Morineb. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||