Duchy of Lesser Vethringen
Duchy of Lesser Vethringen Herzogtum Kleinvethringen (Alemannisch) | |
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| Motto: "Es ist nur richtig." It is only right. | |
 Lesser Vethringen within Dolchland | |
| Status | Consitituent state of Dolchland |
| Location | Dolchland |
| Capital | Ritterburg |
| Official languages | Alemannisch |
| Demonym(s) | (Lesser) Vethringenian |
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• Duke | Wilhelm XIII |
| Establishment | |
• Formation of the archaic Kingdom of Vethringen | 495 |
• Establishment of the Archduchy of Vethringen under $EMPIRE | 730 |
• Splitting of Vethringen after the Vethringen Succession War | 1623 |
The Duchy of Lesser Vethringen (Alemannisch: Herzogtum Kleinvethringen), commonly referred to as Lesser Vethringen (Alemannisch: Kleinvethringen), is a semi-independent constituent state of the Empire of Dolchland. Located in the Vethringen region, it shares a border with the Archduchy of Greater Vethringen to the south, as well as Habstria to the west, as well as Upper and Lower Streckeburg and Kirchmarkt and Teilen to the east.
In the arrival of Dolchic settlers to modern-day Dolchland, the region which would become Vethringen was universally colonised by the Vetter tribe or tribal confederation. They consolidated relatively quickly, establishing an ancient kingdom in 495. The Kingdom would come to be bordered by the ($EMPIRE) rising in the west, and seeing potential in joining with this new power, renounced their Kingly title to join as vassals to the Empire, and became the early Archduchy of Vethringen. This state continued until 1617, when the Vethringen Succession War broke out, with two rival factions, the Legitimists ruling from Greifsdorf, who had selected a cousin of the outgoing Archduke who was of the house Ausburg-Vethringen to rule, and the Nachfolgists, ruling from Ritterburg, who had selected the legitimised bastard son of the outgoing Archduke to rule. The war resulted in somewhat of a stalemate, though the Legitimist cause was supported by the Ausburg Emperor, and so the title of Archduke remained with the Legitimist ruler, who formed the Archduchy of Greater Vethringen, while the Nachfolgists formed the Duchy of Lesser Vethringen.