Kingdom of Sartvelia

The Kingdom of Sartvelia (Sartvelian: საქართველოს სამეფო, Deutsch: Königreich Sartvelien), sometimes referred to by its native name of Sakartvelos, is a kingdom located in the mountains to the southeast of the Grand Duchy of Karelia. The country was a former province of the Old Empire, and still retains many of its customs, including its religion and use of pikeman infantry. It is fiercely independent and its people largely stay in their protective mountains, but traders from Sartvelia are not an uncommon sight in foreign ports. The Sartvelians are known as much for their trade as they are for their skilled cavalry, with Norse chronicler Egil Thorfinnsson writing that "...while not numerous, [the Sartvelians] are more skilled on horseback than the Karelians, quicker than the Serks, and more ferocious than even the Magyars".