Translations:Koxor/5/en

The first evidence of human habitation in Koxor dates to around 11,000 BCE. The Kareleir cave in modern Itekha County contains a series of hand-paintings done by these Neolithic inhabitants of the Ankhulen valley. Written records are non-existent until c. 2500 BCE, with the earliest inscriptions written in the Proto-Khorensin script. By this time, the speakers of the Southern Alapetic languages had become distinct from those of the Northern languages, as is clear from the now-extinct language of these inscriptions. Most of the small city-states that inhabited Alapet at this time were only along the eastern coast, away from the steppe nomads to the east. The coast of this region is infertile, so the cities relied mainly on internal trade to build wealth. One of the cities, Khore, along the Ankhulen river, began to dominate the area in the early 2nd millennium BCE, organising its traditional faith into the first aspects of the Khorensi religion.