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During his rule, Edwin III launched a series of military campaigns to reassert revanchist claims on former Cuthish territories that had been lost during the partitions. These campaigns, known as the Alhstead Wars, began with the Second Cutho-Waldish War in 1832, which ended in the reannexation of Waldrich after a brief two month conflict. The decisive victory sparked a wave of nationalism across Cuthland, emboldening Edwin III to continue his aggressive foreign policy against Dulebia in 1834. The war was largely successful, with the Treaty of Ulich ceding most of the X Peninsula that had been seized in the fourth partition, with the exception of Erjarvia, back to Cuthland. The victory over Dulebia allowed Edwin III to begin expanding east, invading Mascylla in 1838.

The Alhstead Wars successfully reestablished the Cuthish Empire as a major power to rival Lavaria and Mascylla, which had dominated Berean geopolitics for the past half-century.

History of Cuthland-Waldrich

• Pre-6th century: Tribes and stuff from prehistory until circa 6th century
• 6th century: Various petty kingdoms, duchies, etc. emerge and dominate throughout early medieval period
• 6th-11th centuries: But oh no, they keep getting fucked by Mascylla from the east and the Nordics from the west
• 11th century: Probably better if we unite into two kingdoms instead, Cuthland and Waldrich
• 15th century: Yeah this is pretty cool but Masc keeps fucking us so let's form a political union and totally not rip off Poland-Lithuania in the process
• 15th-17th centuries: Wow I like this whole empire thing let's go invade not!Scandinavia and maybe parts of Mascylla as well
  • We should also be artsy and shit while we're at it
• 17th century: Oh never mind this is actually completely unsustainable, ethnic tensions are sucky and our economy is in the shitter
  • Guess we better partition the G L O R I O U S E M P I R E and return to getting railed by Mascylla
• 1818: Lol jk we're getting the band back together
• 19th century: Oh look, industry and colonies
  • Oh awesome now Dulebia wants in, maybe we can challenge Lavarian/Mascyllary dominance and in no way collapse spectacularly in the process
• Great War: Oh wow that was shockingly predictable guess we suck again
• 1920s: Yep we definitely suck, Masc took our monarchy and now the commies want in
• 1930s: But what better cure for communism than a return of the monarchy, this time with double the oppression
• 1930s: Guess we should invade/annex Waldrich again, as is customary
• 1930s-1970s: Oh wow this is much better than before, we're actually kind of feared
• 1970s: Whoops maybe economics aren't our thing, the people are restless again
  • Okay we'll give you more capitalism but the monarchy stays
• 1980s-2000s: Mmm yes the sweet taste of cold hard cash
• 2000s-present: Wow we're actually developed as fuck for once