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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>The Verdurian Drilldown: Verduria province</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#C0FFC0" TEXT="#000800"> <!-- VV nav bar --> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr bgcolor="#007000"><td colspan=7 height="5"> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td colspan=7 height="5"> <tr bgcolor="#007000"> <td width="20"> <td width="203" height="50" valign="middle"><a href="virtuver.htm"><img src="illo/vvbase.gif" alt="Virtual Verduria" width="201" height="16"></a> <td width="77" align="center" valign="middle"><img src="illo/vvcrown.gif" width="36" height="21"> <td valign="middle" align="left"> <a href="drill4.htm"><img src="illo/vvleft.gif" alt="Previous map" width="25" height="19"></a> <a href="drill0.htm"><img src="illo/vvdrill.gif" alt="Click each map to view the next one" width="269" height="16"></a> <a href="drill55.htm"><img src="illo/vvright.gif" alt="Next map" width="23" height="19"></a> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td colspan=7 height="5"> <tr bgcolor="#007000"><td colspan=7 height="5"> <tr><td height="25"> </table> <a href="drill55.htm"><img src="fetora.gif"></a> <br> The realm of Verduria was limited to <i>Verdúria-fetöra</i>, Verduria province, till 2870, when Lord Anabar married Ašeli of Zeir, to the east, and their two dominions were merged. <p>Verduria became a kingdom in 2941, when Caleon embarked on the expansion that led to Verduria's present-day extent. <p>The word <i>fetöra</i>, by the way, derives from Caďinor <i>peťuera</i> 'division', a nominalization of <i>peťen</i> 'divide'. When the Caďinorian empire fell, its individual provinces tended to become separate kingdoms. <hr> <center><i>© 1999 by Mark Rosenfelder</i><br> </center> </BODY> </HTML>