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A word on the indian cultures:
I've been modding eu3 to create a more realistic indian situation, among the things I did was make an entirely new map for india.
Those culture language groups from wiki would sadly not apply to the era of this game (this is more true for northern india than southern but for instance neither hindi nor telugu should exist in the rome era). I'm however not knowledgeable enough on this to give any further directions though :(
As I'm currently redoing central asia for my own mod in the eu3 era I couldn't help but notice that your fergana province seems to be shaped the wrong way, it's a valley that goes east->west not north to south.
It's also my understanding that Transoxania and Sogdania are different names for the same thing (the region beyond the Oxus/Amu Darya dominated by the cities of Bukhara and Smarakanda/Samarkand) and that they are usually used to refer to a much larger area than those two provinces on your map (more like a region in eu:rome).
My central asian historical atlas also has a lake between the caspian sea and soutwest of the aral sea (that's not there today).
Lastly I think the Indus is looking good (possibly it extends too far to the north, I have a bit of a problem getting my orientation without the mountain chains and without entirely understanding what's in the PTI and what's not) but it usually is given atleast five of it's "arms" on most maps as that's the reason for the name of Punjab (the region of the five waters). I can't say much about province names for india during this era ;)

Good work though, I love to see the eu:rome map expanded eastwards. I always thought the map should continue to at least the Indus. My only fear is that the game will have trouble running so many countries at once.
 
Can't download right now, a comment about the suggested provinces north of persia above though:
Urgench (Konya-Urgench to us today) should be on the oxus, possibly as the capital of the Chorasmia province?
 
I have a map in a historical atlas of assessed population for the entire world around year 0 (every million gets one dot on the map, it turns out the ganges area is A LOT more populous than the nile area). I could probably get it scanned if you think it would help?

Also you might want to consider adding a few trade goods as you'll be expanding the map quite a lot from the Mediterranean area that the vanilla resources are meant to apply to.
 
I thought all map modders had a collection of historical atlases by now? ;) I've been collecting since I was modding civ 2 back in the day (I love historical maps in general though).

I am curious though if you could tell me of a good historical atlas for central asia (ie the area on the screenshot above) I've been modding it for eu3 and came up with this but even if the provinces were perfect (which I doubt) too many of them are named for their capital city as of now... The local university library is very well stocked (it's supposedly the biggest one in scandinavia) so if I just knew what to look for...



I know I know, there shouldn't be snow in the dessert. I haven't modded the climate file yet ;)