Bossonia

A province of Aquilonia, fronting on Cimmeria and the Pictish Wilderness. The population lived in walled villages defended by archers. Bossonians were the rugged descendants of an unknown aboriginal people admixed with Hyborians. They combined grainland farming with hunting. Their lands extended from the Border Kingdom in the north to Zingara in the southwest, cutting Cimmeria off from Aquilonia in the region called Gunderland. The Bossonians, whose culture was rustic, helped to colonize the hinterlands between the Black and Thunder Rivers. Peerless fighting men, they were the backbone of the Aquilonian armies of conquest. After the time of Conan, the Bossonian Marches were increasingly important as a bulwark against the Picts. When the Marches eventually capitulated, the Picts overwhelmed Aquilonia. (Hyborian Age I-II, God in the Bowl, Beyond Black River, Moon of Blood, Hour of the Dragon, Conan the Great)