History of the Brigant

The Brigant is a region in eastern Mhasifu, a continent on Harvia. It played a leading role in the history of Harvia and it is the location of many influential countries, most notably Opole and Feidhir. This article deals with the history of the Brigant region and the (foreign) endaveors of its member states.

The Brigant comprises the whole eastern half of the continent, from the eastern border of Ulan-ma, via the Ebregohes Mountains, eastern Ermen and Alapen Mountains to the Kanineselate Bay, which, together with Feidhirni Gulf, splits the country of Feidhir in two separate parts (a Brigantian and a Hegatian part). Brigantia includes the Dimmur Peninsula (the location of northern Ondiann, and the whole of Urok) and the various smaller island nations around it: Naoned, Muretha, Enneda and Gallan i Xhanto. The island nations of the Khantian states are also included with the Brigant, as well as the island nations of Sao and Lire.

Prehistory
The first inhabitants of the Brigant were people that moved into the region from western Mhasifu, and who were originally from Cominore. These people were replaced by immigrants from the western Greater Cochuka. Around 8,000 BC the first agricultural societies emerged. It is speculated that during this time, the Brigant was the home of about 80% of the non-Cominore world population of Harvia. Still, most people lived in Cominore, and it wasn't until 4000 BC that the first states emerged.

According to the Mahjhtathrura Illasil, an ancient manuscript from Mhas written in 1107 BC, the first organized state of Brigant was Kiri-na, supposedly founded in 6891 BC. The existence of this state is highly disputed, and the general consensus is that it never existed, as the first nations of the Brigant were probably founded in Feidhir around 4000 BC. Those small city states, of which no written records survive, traded with each other and operated an extensive trading network that ran from northern Hanwe to the western parts of Feidhir. They built small fortresses, named Ravu by Hanwe traders in the 2nd century AD.

Around 2200 BC, the city of Mhas was founded by Haladian farmers that settled near the eastern coast of the Brigant, south of contempory Corint. A number of small warrior states that were mainly concentrated near the southern border of Corint sacked the city and other Mhassian settlements multiple times. According to Mhassian legends, the so-called "first king of Mhas", Calam, destroyed the warrior states of Maepun and Semir in the year 2072 BC, a year after the probable foundation of Thrune, current Thrannasoueil. During these times, from the 22nd to the 17th century BC, the central heartland of Brigant, consisting of the Cemirian Peninsula, Halady, Mhassia and the Mirta, was covered by a patchwork of small coastal principalities that acted as early thalassocracies, warrior societies and plutocratic states in the highlands and small patches of tribal land in the valleys and near rivers.