Province Elettorali (Electoral Provinces)

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Electoral Provinces

Current Electoral Provinces

The 11 current electoral provinces of the Empire, also sometimes called "grand provinces" or "great provinces" include:

Grand Principality of Reikland Grand County of Stirland Grand Barony of Hochland - Hochland is a former Electoral Province that was attached to Talabheim and then was re-granted its electoral privileges after the Turmoil of 2512 IC. Grand County of Averland Grand Barony of Wissenland Grand Duchy of Talabecland League of Ostermark - Ostermark was a former Electoral Province attached to Talabecland that was re-granted its electoral privileges after the Turmoil of 2512 IC. Grand Duchy of Nordland - Nordland was a former Electoral Province attached to Middenheim that was re-granted its electoral privileges after the Turmoil of 2512 IC. Grand Principality of Ostland Grand Duchy of Middenland Grand County of the Mootland - The Mootland, also called simply "the Moot," is the region of the realm where the Halflings of the Empire dwell, known officially as the Grand County of the Mootland. The Moot's elector, currently the Halfling Elder Hisme Stoutheart, is the only non-Human Elector in the Empire, and like the Grand Theogonist and Arch Lectors of Sigmar, and the Ar-Ulric of Ulric, does not wield one of the magical Runefangs as a sign of their office and authority. Former Electoral Provinces

The former Electoral Provinces of the Empire and other Imperial regions of note:

Solland - Solland was destroyed as an independent Imperial province in the wake of Gorbad Ironclaw's Orc invasion of the Empire in 1707 IC and its territory was ultimately absorbed by the Grand Barony of Wissenland. Westerland (The Wasteland) - The Westerland was the Imperial province that was the seat of the great commercial city of Marienburg that seceded from the Empire in 2429 IC and became an independent city-state. Emperor Wilhem III recognized the Westerland's independence after the forces of Marienburg forcefully defeated an Imperial army dispatched to return them to the Imperial fold. The province is now known across the Old World as the Wasteland, perhaps out of a fit of pique on the part of the people of the Empire. Drakwald - Drakwald was a founding Electoral Province of the Empire that was located near the center of the Drakwald Forest, now divided up between Middenland and Nordland. Other provinces that were once founded, but now have been abandoned:

Lichtenberg - founded in the present-day lands of the Border Princes.[1c] West Mark - founded in the modern territories of Bretonnia.[1c] Grauesland - founded after the first Parravon War within the Grey Mountains between modern Bretonnia and the Empire, on the territory of modern Parravon.[10a] Current Provinces

Formerly independent Imperial provinces attached to one of the larger Electoral Provinces after the political reorganisation of the Empire following the Turmoil of 2512 IC include the following:[9c]

Princedom of Altdorf - Part of Reikland Princedom of Averheim - Part of Averland Princedom of Carroburg - Part of Middenland Princedom of Wurtbad - Part of Stirland Protectorate of Drakwald - Part of Middenland Arch-duchy of Dunkelkoste - Part of Talabecland Duchy of Middenheim - Part of Middenland Grand County of Nuln - Part of Wissenland Barony of Sudenland - Part of Wissenland Duchy of Talabheim - Part of Talabecland Northern March - Part of Ostland County of Sylvania - The County of Sylvania was formerly an independent Imperial Electoral Province, but it is now officially only a constituent fief of the Grand County of Stirland. It can be sure that no other province of the Empire would want the accursed place that was home to the von Carstein bloodline of Vampires and their necromancer and Undead followers. Arch-duchy of Upper Teufel - Part of Reikland March of Vennland - Part of Wissenland Westenmark - Part of Middenland Twelve Original Grand Provinces

The provinces that Sigmar created when he founded the Empire of Man are not necessarily the same ones that exist at present. Some have been lost to disaster, others to invasion or civil war.[1c]

Following is a list of the twelve original Grand Provinces of the Empire, including their associated original Human tribe and that tribe's ruler in parentheses at the time they were included in the newly-founded Empire of Man by Sigmar. The first Elector Counts were drawn from these "Greats;" as such, many Imperial nobles attempt to link their family line to one of these original tribal leaders.[1c]

Averland - Brigundians (Siggurd) Drakwald - Thuringians (Otwin) Hochland - Cherusens (Aloysis) Middenland - Teutogens (Artur) Ostermark - Ostagoths (Adelhard) Ostland - Udoses (Wolfila) Reikland - Unberogens (Sigmar) Solland - Menogoths (Markus) Stirland - Asoborns (Freya) Talabecland - Taleutens (Krugar) Westerland - Endals (Marbad) Wissenland - Merogens (Henroth) Colonies

The people of the Empire have since expanded to new continents of Mallus beyond the Old World. These do not have representation within the Empire at large.

New Coast - located in the Southlands and consisting of settlements like Sudenburg and Leopoldheim. Neuland - a colony founded on Albion. Mangrove Port - a colony located on the Shifting Mangrove Coastline in the Southlands. Svunum - a fortified outpost in southern Norsca under the control of the Order of the Blazing Sun.