High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles V rend was in the Middle Ages the most populous of the constituent small lands of the province Sm land, in Sweden. Early on, V xj became its center. Around 1170, V rend broke out of the diocese of Link ping, and formed its own diocese of V xj . Judicially, V rend was a part of "Tioh rad," which roughly corresponds to present-day Kronoberg County.