Ethlorek peoples
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The Ethlorek peoples are a family of ethnic groups that originate in northern Astyria and are now distributed across much of the west of that region. They form the majority in several countries: Fyngaria (the only remaining Northern Ethlorek nation), Trellin, Arimathea, Kur'zhet and Cadenza. The Southern Ethlorek peoples are also known in some sources by their Trellinese-language name, Ethlorekoz. Ethlorek peoples form significant minorities in several countries, such as Berique and the non-Ethlorek constituent nations of the Trellinese Empire.
In every Ethlorek country, the dominant language is one of the Ethlorek languages, which belong tenuously to the family of Aqvatanzian languages. These languages, and the people who speak them, originated in what is now Aquitayne, in the Tanz River Valley. The collapse of the Merovian Empire in the first millennium BC drove the Ethlorek people west and south, and they established states across Lorecia and Teudallum. Fyngaria and the nations of the Trellinese Empire are the Ethlorek nations that survive. Arimathea, Cadenza and Kur'zhet (dependencies of Trellin) form a multinational organisation, originally a political forum, called the Ethlorek Community, established in 1952.