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. | |||||||
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| Hard to calculate for the same reasons as above. | |||||||
The Modern North Boroso Border Conflicts were a protracted series of mostly-undeclared border conflicts that occurred in northwestern Boroso for the better part of a century between the fall of the Setyal Empire in 1844 and border treaties in the 1940s. They were prompted primarily by Dhweran expansionism and the power vacuums left by the collapse of several extensive polities in the 18th and early 19th centuries in the region: the Mwamban Empire, the Setyal Empire and the Bavkir Empire. Another substantial motivation for these conflicts was the discovery of mineral wealth in the region, sought by all of the involved parties.
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
In 1831, Dhwer and Kavrinia (the predecessor state to today's Lhavres) began a series of wars with the Setyal Empire, challenging its superiority and the threat it posed to the rest of Upper Boroso. When the Setyal capital Ǧuun fell in 1844 and their bureaucratic infrastructure dissolved, a large region was left effectively unmanaged, stretching from the Thewer River Basin west of Ǧuun to the Kojuruv Highlands to the west, from Sangmia in the south and the Yaa Peninsula to the north. The fertile floodplains, high population (and thus workforce), leftover Setyal infrastructure, and, in some areas, mineral resources made the region immediately desirable to neighboring powers.
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.
Kojuruv Highlands Conflicts
Background
Two processes happened in tandem to eventually shift the attention of Dhweran expansionism towards the Kojuruv Highlands, firstly the consolidation of the Lhavresian government and increasing support from the populace it attained made both annexation attempts and less official skirmishes and raids into Lhavres less likely to succeed and less profitable. At the same time, the dissolution of the Mwamban Empire starting in the 1860's and the diminishing involvement and eventual abandon of the Vos Kerezh Territory made the Kojuruv Highlands a much more vulnerable region, comprised of several independent or loosely allied polities with no particular backing from major global or regional powers. Additionally, mines in the region proved plenty and profitable, as seen by the developments in independent Sangmia from the 1870's onwards. This made the area the natural next target of the Dhweran expansionist machine and by the mid 1890s basically all of its focus, apart from the continued attention to the Thewer Territory, was in campaigning in this region.
At the same time, what was left of the Mwamban Empire was trying to reassert its authority and influence over recently seceded areas of what is now Tuanmali, a policy particularly noticeable after Äräläżüp I came to power in 1901.