Today the city inside the walls is full to bursting and buildings have overflown outside the walls, along the roads and the banks of the Blackwater. When the city walls were built, lots of space was left over for future construction and growth. Sitting atop Visenya’s Hill is the Great Sept of Baelor, the largest sept in the Seven Kingdoms and the centre of the Faith of the Seven, supplanting the older Starry Sept of Oldtown. The building has been left in ruins ever since. This in turn was destroyed during the Dance of Dragons. The Dragonpit, a home for the Targaryen dragons, was raised in its stead. Once the hill was crowned by the impressive Sept of Remembrance, but this was destroyed during the Faith Militant Uprising, burned to the ground by King Maegor using the dragon Balerion. Atop the Hill of Rhaenys sits the Dragonpit. The other two hills have their landmarks as well. Crowning Aegon’s High Hill, it is one of the most distinctive buildings in the Seven Kingdoms. Built of red stone, the castle was named the Red Keep. This was completed during the rule of his second son, Maegor I. He also ordered the rebuilding of the Aegonfort as a larger and more formidable stone fortress. When word arrived that a pirate fleet had sacked the Summer Islands he realised the city was vulnerable to a naval assault and commanded that walls should be raised, which were completed by 26 AC. After he completed his conquest, he expanded the Aegonfort and decreed that a greater city would take shape around it. When Aegon landed at the river mouth he quickly fortified the tallest hill overlooking the bay and built a wooden stronghold there, nicknamed the “Aegonfort” by his troops. However, the ever-changing borders between the surrounding kingdoms prevented a long-term settlement from taking root. The tall hills overlooking the bay have made a natural place for habitation and settlement for millennia, and the ruins of villages and watchtowers in the region of the city could be seen even when Aegon arrived. It is also the youngest city of the Seven Kingdoms, being formally founded only around 300 years ago by Aegon the Conqueror. It is built around three tall hills overlooking the mouth of the Blackwater Rush, where it opens into the bay. King’s Landing is the capital city of the Seven Kingdoms. The Crownlands are economically and politically controlled by King’s Landing, the largest city in Westeros. The Crownlands are geographically dominated by Blackwater Bay, an immense inlet of the Narrow Sea, and also include the offshore islands of Driftmark, Dragonstone and Claw Isle, amongst others. The Crownlands extend for approximately 400 miles from the Bay of Crabs to the Wendwater, and for close to 450 miles from the western border (near Gods Eye) to the Narrow Sea at the tip of Crackclaw Point. The informal term “Crownlands” fell into regular use, referring both to the lands directly administered by the king and the islands off the coast. Later his great capital city was built here and the area became directly administered by the Iron Throne itself. When Aegon the Conqueror invaded Westeros, this was where he landed and where he secured his first allies on the mainland. The Crownlands in 297 AC (click for a larger version).
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