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==Etymology==
The term for Tretrid in its native language, ''Þrena'', derives from the name of the [[Yuserism|Yuserist]] god Thret, or Þret. This dates back to the Threnan Kingdom, which, according to myth, had been founded by Thret himself. While the name Þrena was originally associated with the Threnan Kingdom, it was eventually coopted to refer to the land itself. By the 9th century, the term had become a general endonym for the lands east of the Greatflood. After its unification in 1256, Tretrid claimed itself to be the continuation of the Threnan Kingdom, and indeed still calls itself such to this day: ''Þrenan Rīce'' literally translates to "Threnan Kingdom."
The name "Tretrid" was largely coined by Staynish explorers, deriving from the Impelanzan ''Trétid''. That name was the one given to the Threnan kingdom by Impelanzan merchants who traded with Threnan, and was derived from the name the ancient Threnans gave themselves.
Under historiographical convention, the ancient Threnan kingdom is referred to with its endonym while the modern Kingdom of Tretrid is referred to by its exonym. This convention does not exist in Tretridian, where no distinction is made.
==History==
===Pre-unification===
The earliest evidence of sapient habitation within Tretrid's modern borders dates to approximately 1.6 million years ago. They are believed to have migrated from West Novaris through the Nalpian Mountains. During the Neolithic, agriculture started to spring up circa 7000 BCE along the Greatflood basin and spread out through the rest of Tretrid. Organized states followed, with political organization arriving in the form of city-states, and a writing system emerged circa 1000 BCE.
In the 1st century BCE, a city-state on the lower Greatflood, around modern Norþlofean, rapidly consolidated control of most of the Greatflood estuary through conquest and became known as the Threnan Kingdom due to its founder and the leader of these conquests traditionally being held to be the god Thret. Over the next century, the Threnan Kingdom would come to control most of the lower Greatflood and most of the coasts c. 1 CE. It would continue to expand, pushing inwards into Efeast, and would gain suzerainty over a wider chunk of the Tretridian peninsula.
The eruption of Toré in 512 CE caused wide-scale agricultural disruption and famine, resulting in political instability and war that caused the complete collapse of Threna by 520 CE. What followed was the Tretridian Dark Age from about 520-800 CE, so named for the general scarcity of surviving records from the time by when the term was first used in the 13th century.
Archaeological evidence from coinage suggests the existence of a major polity centered on the northernmost parts of the lower Greatflood, dubbed Westrice ({{Lit.}} Western Kingdom) that existed from about 560 to about 700 CE, though not much is known about it.
Ulvrikians began to migrate into eastern Tretrid circa 600 CE in the aftermath of the collapse of the Ulvrikian Empire, accompanied by a massive increase in the archaeological record of Concordian material culture beyond that of earlier trade, though the nature of this settlement is disputed. The cultural memory of this migration persisted in oral storytelling until it was written into an epic poem in the 11th century, but its historicity of some of its details is a source of debate. However, by the time the written historical record resumed in the 9th century, it was largely done in a Concordian language which would become the predecessor to modern Tretridian and Peyeterin.
The scattered city-states and petty kingdoms across Tretrid began to consolidate in the 9th century. An invasion of Crenland from Ostretheia and its subsequent repulsion under King [[Cenhelm I]] led to the unification of a significant chunk of eastern Tretrid under his rule in his newly founded city [[Sigested]], leading to him claiming rule over the people of eastern Tretrid by naming himself King of Easþrena and campaigning westwards. This led Cynebury in northern Tretrid and Lovean (Lavoa) in southern Tretrid, the most powerful polities in their regions, to claim dominion over their respective portions of the peninsula, and invading their neighbors to push that claim. By the 10th century, all of Tretrid east of the Greatflood had fallen under the rule of these Norþrenan, Easþrenan, and Suþrenan kingdoms, beginning a period known as the Triarchy. At the same time, the Celanor Empire in Western Novaris began to expand east of the Nalpians, coming to control all the land west of the Greatflood, leading to the subsequent Norvianization of large portions of this western territory.
===Unification and expansion===
[[File:Tret1256.png|thumb|Tretrid at the time of its unification]]
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