Editing Belkan (section)

==History==

The area that would become Belkan would originally be settled by tribesmen from the North fleeing the predations of the Ogres that inhabited the frozen lands. They would settle many petty kingdoms in the Northwest all the way to Ercaenmedias Southern borders. These Kingdoms would later be conquered by the Nantic Empire with the Nantic peoples and native Belkans (Northern Europeans) mixing and forming a distinct ethnic identity. The Belkan provinces eventually would declare independence from the Nantic Empire and break off with large areas of Belkan and Ercaenmedia forming the Belkan Kingdom, with the Ercaenmedians migrating into the area and declaring independence as their own nation a few centuries after the founding of the Kingdom. The Belkan Empire, which would expand to the islands to the west and establish colonies on the Northern Continent, would later assault and conquer Ercaenmedia in the Northern War but would press to far in trying to conquer the entire West leading to it's defeating by Nantes, Alkor and the Western Coalition stripping it of pride and colonies. Belkan would spend the next 150 years waging pointless small Wars against Ercaenmedia and occasionally Alkor, launching a few half-hearted attempts to conquer the country which would fall apart under Ercaenmedian and international pressure. In the last 50 years following the election of the first High King of the Erich House Belkans fortunes have turned around. With a Belkan aerial expedition once more winning them colonies on the Southern continent (just throw something Belkan somewhere there) Belkan pride is slowing being restored.