Duchy of Suedia
Sovereign Duchy of Suedia | |||||||||||
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| 520 CE–1075 CE | |||||||||||
| Religion | State cult of Týr Alban Nazarism Aletheism | ||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Suedian | ||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||
| Duke | |||||||||||
• 520-525 | Hermanic | ||||||||||
• 1075 | Odeca (last) | ||||||||||
| Legislature | Suedian Diet | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Independence from the Latin Empire | 520 CE | ||||||||||
| 1075 CE | |||||||||||
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| Today part of | Garima | ||||||||||
The Duchy of Suedia was a Tervingian and Latin successor state centered around the region of the same name in eastern Garima. Suedia was the southernmost province of Gothic-led Tervingian Empire, populated mainly by a different branch of Germanic people : the Suedians who lived from the southern shores of Lake Kulpanitsa to the edge of the Periclean Sea. Despite its size and population the province of Suedia had no representative in the central Thiudathing, remaining a "borderland" for the Gothic Empire.
As Tervingia collapsed due to Ludic migration and forced Decentralization, tribal Suedi leaders became proeminent once more, evolving into petty local warlords. Military campaigns from the Latins between 440 and 450 CE ended the burgeoning Suedian pirate economy and vassalized most of modern southern Garima and Brumen, securing the Periclean sea. While some forts and ports were built, establishing a token military presence, most of the ruling was left to local Duces, tribal warlords given a place in the Empire' hierarchy in exchange for their submission.
The revolt of the southern goths (505-510 CE) proved the limits of the Latin presence in the Eastern Periclean and spread to the Suedians. Tribal revolts led to Latins having to increasingly rely on local Dukes for repression until the last Latin settlement in Suedia was abandoned in 520 CE, leaving the region de-facto independent althhough some fiction of a submission to the distant Empire was kept by the early dukes.
For the next three centuries, the dukes of Suedia remained one of the major policy in eastern Belisaria with conflictual relationship with all of its neighbors but Morinia and its Vestrozavans vassals being the Duchy' main rivals. they still had to contend with Sudentor to their east, Nyrundy to their south, and the Duchy of Urnst to their west.
In the late 8th century, the Lushyods arrived in Lake Kulpanitsa, both on boats and by land. While at first profitable to the Suedians - this new migration weakened greatly their northern rival - they would nonetheless fall victims to the Lushyods as well after they settled in the Furodomark in 800 CE, gaining a direct access to Suedia.
The Lushyodorstag proved a dangerous ennemy to Suedia which was forced multiple time to pay tribute to the mounted raiders. They would lose Babenburg to the Lushyods and Elbogen would gain its independence as a vassal-state of the Lushyodorstag. Suedia would retain some geopolitcal weight as part of a Coalition with Morinia, Abodita, and other states against the Lushyods.
During the 11th century Duke Mir of the Suedians died at the battle of Schwaburg against the Holy Aulian Empire. His successor would rule only for a few months before swearing allegiance to the western monarchs, gaining their economic and military support against the Lushyods. This marked the end of Sudia as an independent state. However, the modern day Duchy of Suedia within Garima can be considered the continuation of the old medieval entity.