. . . . . . . . . "Wind-swept islands, rocky poor soil, cold and stormy."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Constituent region of the Seven Kingdoms"@en . . . "The Drowned God"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "They are the smallest and among the least-populous of the regions of Westeros, but the naval skills of their population are unmatched and they enjoy great mobility due to their ships. The people of the Iron Islands, the ironborn, have a unique culture centered on maritime raiding and pillaging other peoples. However, they were forced to stop these practices when they were conquered by the Targaryens, or at least, to stop raiding shipping around Westeros itself. Before the Targaryen Conquest the Iron Islands were a sovereign kingdom, along with the other \"Seven Kingdoms \". For the three generations immediately preceding the Conquest, the ironborn also controlled the Riverlands (which also included pieces of the future Crownlands at the time), which they had conquered in turn from the Stormlands. Bastards born in the Iron Islands are given the surname Pyke."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Constituent region of the Kingdom of the Isles and Rivers"@en . . . . . . . . . "The Faith of the Seven"@en . "They are the smallest and among the least-populous of the regions of Westeros, but the naval skills of their population are unmatched and they enjoy great mobility due to their ships. The people of the Iron Islands, the ironborn, have a unique culture centered on maritime raiding and pillaging other peoples. However, they were forced to stop these practices when they were conquered by the Targaryens, or at least, to stop raiding shipping around Westeros itself. Bastards born in the Iron Islands are given the surname Pyke."@en . . . . "Constituent region of the Kingdom of the Iron Islands"@en . . . "Iron Islands"@en . . . . . . . "Iron Islands"@en . . .