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Flea Bottom is a down-trodden area of town, rife with poverty and crime. It is a maze of twisty, unpaved alleys and cross-streets below the Street of Flour on the way down the east side of [[Rhaenys's hill|Rhaenys's Hill]]. The buildings lean over the narrow alleys, almost touching.
 
Flea Bottom is a down-trodden area of town, rife with poverty and crime. It is a maze of twisty, unpaved alleys and cross-streets below the Street of Flour on the way down the east side of [[Rhaenys's hill|Rhaenys's Hill]]. The buildings lean over the narrow alleys, almost touching.
  
It has pot-shops along the alleys where one can get a '[[bowl of brown|bowl o' brown]].' It has a stench of pigsties and stables, tanner's sheds mixed in with the smell of [[Winesink|winesinks]] and [[Brothel|whorehouses]].{{Ref|aGoT|65}}  
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It has pot-shops along the alleys where one can get a '[[bowl of brown|bowl o' brown]].' It has a stench of pigsties and stables, tanner's sheds mixed in with the smell of [[Winesink|winesinks]] and [[Brothel|whorehouses]].{{Ref|aGoT|65}} =
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==History==
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King's Landing began as a boom-town after the [[War of Conquest|Targaryen Conquest]], but no one planned it - it simply grew. What had started as Aegon I Targaryen's initial foothold and stockade on the mainland mushroomed in size so quickly and haphazardly that several slum districts developed, the largest and worst of which was Flea Bottom. By 10 years after the Conquest it had reached the size of a true city, almost as large as [[Gulltown]] or [[White Harbor]]. By 25 years after the Conquest, it had outgrown both of them in size, surpassed only by [[Lannisport]] and [[Oldtown]].{{Ref|FAB|Three Heads Had the Dragon - Governance Under King Aegon I}} The first chronological mention of Flea Bottom is in {{date|49}}.{{Ref|fab|The Year of the Three Brides - 49 AC}}
  
 
==People from Flea Bottom==
 
==People from Flea Bottom==

Revision as of 05:33, 16 April 2021

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Flea Bottom is the poorest slum of King's Landing.

Description

See also: Images of Flea Bottom

Flea Bottom is a down-trodden area of town, rife with poverty and crime. It is a maze of twisty, unpaved alleys and cross-streets below the Street of Flour on the way down the east side of Rhaenys's Hill. The buildings lean over the narrow alleys, almost touching.

It has pot-shops along the alleys where one can get a 'bowl o' brown.' It has a stench of pigsties and stables, tanner's sheds mixed in with the smell of winesinks and whorehouses.[1] =

History

King's Landing began as a boom-town after the Targaryen Conquest, but no one planned it - it simply grew. What had started as Aegon I Targaryen's initial foothold and stockade on the mainland mushroomed in size so quickly and haphazardly that several slum districts developed, the largest and worst of which was Flea Bottom. By 10 years after the Conquest it had reached the size of a true city, almost as large as Gulltown or White Harbor. By 25 years after the Conquest, it had outgrown both of them in size, surpassed only by Lannisport and Oldtown.[2] The first chronological mention of Flea Bottom is in 49 AC.[3]

People from Flea Bottom

Quotes

The Bottom had a stench to it, a stink of pigsties and stables and tanner's sheds, mixed in with the sour smell of winesinks and cheap whorehouses.

References

  1. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 65, Arya V.
  2. Fire & Blood, Three Heads Had the Dragon - Governance Under King Aegon I.
  3. Fire & Blood, The Year of the Three Brides - 49 AC.