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==History==
===Early History===
Lupine settlement in the area dates to at least two thousand years before the present.
[[File:Casco y collera de lobo tlingit (M. América, Madrid) 01.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A helmet and collar used in battle by a Vesienvällic lupine in the Ursine Wars.]]
Over the course of time, lupine tribes consolidated into competing petty kingdoms. Some time near 1000 CE, the various lupine petty kingdoms in the area united under the banner of the Kingdom of Vesienväl. The name is believed to come from the Old Vesienvällic for "between the waters," referring to the sea to the north and the lakes to the south and east. Historical records from this era are incomplete and the exact date of the establishment of the Kingdom is unclear. The prevailing theories date the Kingdom to as early as 950 CE and as late as 1120 CE, depending on when the unification of the various petty kingdoms could be considered "complete." In any case, by the 12th century, the Kingdom's power over the entirety of the region was consolidated and would remain unchallenged until the 20th century.
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