Near Harad (Earth-1943)

Near Harad is a large region south of Gondor and Mordor, beyond River Harnen. During the Age of Heroes, the Haradrim of Near Harad fought against the Five Kingdoms of King Aenys I Targaryen for South Gondor. It borders Khand on the east, and south of it is located the immense and unmapped Far Harad.

History
During the Second Age, Haradrim and Variags of Khand conspired together to overthrow the Five Kingdoms during the rule of Aenys I Targaryen. The Men of Gondor were able to predict the attack, and with his army of the Five Kingdoms and an legion of Dragons, Aenys encountered the assembled Men of Near Harad, who assembled an army of Mûmakil in South Ithilien and wiped them out.

Such defeat would historically serve to demonstrate the might of House Targaryen, and, according to numerous maesters, to put the barbaric peoples of outside Middle-Earth on their place.