The Oversticht is the region of the Eastern Netherlands once ruled over by the Bishops of Utrecht. Split between the modern regions of Drenthe and Overijssel, it was for many centuries a largely uninhabitable marshland. Slowly migrating East from the ancient cities of the Ijssel, settlers would bend the great marshes to their will.
The Oversticht, or today the regions of Drenthe and Overijssel, were ruled mostly from Utrecht. They form the amorphous region between the Ijssel River and the region of Frisia, a land mostly of canals and farmland. The land was never really fought over, and few ever sought to turn it into a base of power. As a result, the centers of development lie on the Ijssel River with mostly just villages and farmland in the interior.
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