Modern North Boroso Border Conflicts
| North Boroso Border Conflicts | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Dhwer Tuanmali Lhavres Sangmia Hayaf (modern day Taanttu) Vosan Kerezh Colony (before 1893) Kerezh (modern day Taanttu, after 1893)Mwamban Empire (until 1932) Kīmi Kīmis We Other Mwamban offshoot polities  Mwamba (in the 1940's) | |||||||
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| Hard to calculate as most of the combat was carried through dubiously sanctioned border skirmishes and raids and guerrilla tactics. | |||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Hard to calculate for the same reasons as above. | |||||||
This page describes the protracted and mostly undeclared border conflicts that occurred in northwestern Boroso through the best part of a century between the fall of the Setyal Empire in 1844 until the 1940's. They were prompted primarily by Dhweran expansionism and the power vacuums left by the collapse of several extensive polities of the early 19th and 18th centuries in the region, like the Mwamban Empire, the Setyal Empire and the Bavkir Empire. Another substantial reason behind these conflicts was the mineral wealth of the region, sought by all of the involved countries.
With the shifting focus of Dhweran expansionism, the period can be broadly divided in two periods: the Thewer Basin conflicts and the Kojuruv Highlands conflicts.
Thewer Basin Conflicts
Background
After the fall of the Setyal capital, Ǧuun in 1844, a large area became effectively ungoverned as the Setyal bureaucratic infrastructure was dissolved. This area, comprising primarily of the Thewer River Basin west of Ǧuun, until the Kojuruv Highlands to the west, Sangmia to the south and the Yaa Peninsula to the north. Due to the very good floodplain farmland, the relatively high population (and thus workforce), the leftover Setyal infrastructure and, in some parts, the mineral resources of the region, the main countries surrounding it in the period moved in to occupy and claim it.
Conflicts
The Mwamban Empire swiftly moved in an occupied Sangmia, while Lhavres occupied most of the middle extension of the Thewer basin, while both Lhavres and Dhwer moved into the Yaa peninsula within the 1840's. While Mwamba attempted to launch a campaign into the Lhavresian occupied areas north and northeast of Sangmia, the logistical costs of transporting armies across the Sangmian Mountains with an uncooperative populace proved too large already into the early 1850's.
Dhwer conducted border skirmishes, raids, and most notably for the actual populace of the region, slave raids, on the entire extent of its southern borders, displacing considerable Kav populations in the Yaa peninsula and attacking along the length of the Thewer river. A couple more comprehensive and more official annexation attempts, both targeting Yaageqyë, were conducted in 1858 and 1865, but they failed as the Lhavresian government was intent on maintaining the area and recovering the Yaa peninsula. Ultimately the peninsula was not fully reconquered by Lhavres, with several different treaties signed between Lhavres and Dhwer about its borders in the late 1800's. Mostly complete treaty conformity in the area from both sides would only really be achieved in the late 1920's.
In its southeast reaches, Lhavres was primarily concerned with fomenting national identity and diluting the tensions between ethnic Setyalni and settlers from other parts of the country, that were primarily rooted in pre-1844 animosity and lingering sentiments for the Setyal Empire. In this sense they were greatly helped by the Dhwer slave raids, which helped form an external enemy and further the identification with the Lhavresian institutions.
Throughout these decades, Lhavres becomes a more cohesive entity, especially in its eastern reaches, and was able to push the conflict and the reach of the Dhweran attacks further north, until the main object of the conflict between Dhwer and Lhavres became the Thewer Territory, which is of deep rooted historical and religious importance to the Dhwerans. This dispute remains unsettled to this day.
Legacy
These conflicts, and the opposition to Dhwer, played a large part in the establishment of Lhavres as a unified political entity and in the formation of a more cohesive Lhavresian national identity among its human and, especially, setyalni population.