I've already written about this in
the old thread, but I'll reiterate it here:
I think Georgia should have cores and claims on the land it had lost during the Mongol occupation, namely the locations of
Shamkor and
Gardman as cores, and the province of
Arran and the locations of
Julfa and
Nakhchivan as claims.
According to the
Historical Atlas of Georgia, in the 1330s, "in the extreme southeast the provinces of Shamkor and Gardman were lost". These territories used to be core parts of the kingdom since the early 12th century. Additionally, the provinces were majority Christian and populated by "accepted pops", in in-game terms. Thus, I think it would make sense to give Georgia cores over this land at game start.
The Emirates of Ganja and Nakhchevan were tributaries of the kingdom also since the 12th century. Hence, I think it would be fitting to make these lands as outlined below a claim of the kingdom. I would like to mention that the
Zhamtaaghmts'ereli, the official court chronicler of the 14th century, (whose writings are seen as quite reliable in Georgian historiography) asserts that these lands were once again made into tributaries by the end of Giorgi V's reign in the late 1340s, which I think vindicates my suggestion.
