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In my opinion, Gdańsk (Danzig) is sorely missed as a Trade Center. This city was a very important member of the Hanseatic League and a major trade center in the region.
Not in 1337 plus the Teutons took it 29 years before the game start and they massacred the population(that's one of the reasons while they are at war with the poles), I was also thinking it should be made a tag vassals to the Teutons but by this point it is unrealistic that the city had much authority, it makes more sence to have it spawn after a few years.
 
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Did you lower the population inhabitating the "Grosse Wildnis", aka East of Prussia? What tags does each Polish culture have? Every culture has a TAG country in place. Are they releasables, formables or the already existing Polish duchies? Overall I don't see a reason for multiple Polish cultures, other than that would make Poland a singular cultural state compared to the others. What made you do it?
1. Yet to be reviewed, as mentioned.
2. The main culture in the locations they own. So Plock, Rawa, and Czersk are Mazovian; Leczyca, Sieradz, and Poland are Lesser Polish; Inowroclaw, Greater Polish; and the Silesian ones, well, Silesian.
3. We considered some feedback (the divide between Poland and Silesian was a bit artificial if no other regional cultures were considered), and also the design in other neighboring regions. They all would be part of the Polish culture group, though.
 
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Greater Poland is because the founding tribe of Polans originated there and they established the modern state and expanded southeast. Later on that area got sacked and they moved the capital to Kraków, which is why it's Lesser Poland.

TBH in the original Polish it's more like "Big Polish" and "Little Polish".

Still, the name was kinda coined because Kraków was the first major conquest of the Piasts, so it was kinda "lesser" to the heartland around Poznań/Gniezno.
That's a misconception.
"Small Poland" (which is more accurate translation than "Lesser Poland") here means region closer to the capital. "Great Poland" is a region farther away from the capital (in Cracow).
We have no knowledge how these regions were called before capital was moved to Cracow and whethear there were specific names for these regions at all.
 
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1. Yet to be reviewed, as mentioned.
2. The main culture in the locations they own. So Plock, Rawa, and Czersk are Mazovian; Leczyca, Sieradz, and Poland are Lesser Polish; Inowroclaw, Greater Polish; and the Silesian ones, well, Silesian.
3. We considered some feedback (the divide between Poland and Silesian was a bit artificial if no other regional cultures were considered), and also the design in other neighboring regions. They all would be part of the Polish culture group, though.
If it's for game purposes, I'll allow it.
 
1. Yet to be reviewed, as mentioned.
2. The main culture in the locations they own. So Plock, Rawa, and Czersk are Mazovian; Leczyca, Sieradz, and Poland are Lesser Polish; Inowroclaw, Greater Polish; and the Silesian ones, well, Silesian.
3. We considered some feedback (the divide between Poland and Silesian was a bit artificial if no other regional cultures were considered), and also the design in other neighboring regions. They all would be part of the Polish culture group, though.
Wait, so there's a Polish group? Not west slavic? Interesting... (I know you can't talk about it yet, don't worry ;))
 
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1. I assume Riga Is city and Riga Lettoniæ the archbishopric, right?
2. What culture is the purple minority in Slovakia? Carpathian Germans? And the orange-brown stripes in lesser polish?
3. I see two Silesian counties that are independent: it's correct?
1. Yes.
2. Purple = Carpathian Germans, orange = Lower Franconian; BTW, the green inside Greater Polish is Walloon, the yellowish inside Mazovian is Westphalian, and the light green inside Lesser Polish is Rhine Alemannic.
3. Yes.
 
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I hope that Polish-Teutonic war is treated like Hundred Years' War from EU4. Even tho war was still ongoing on paper there was armistice between 1333-1343. So you can break the ceasefire from historical event.
 
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I am really excited about the meaning of the division of Polish culture. The Great and Leser Poles may not differ much in terms of tradition. But they create strongly divided political cultures. Which was visible in the fact that separate laws were still issued for both lands at that time. Lesser Poland with Krakow is the heart of the Piast state, but Greater Poland still remembers its importance and does not intend to fade into the shadow.
 
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Wouldn't it make more sense to call Latvian Latgalian since Latvian identity wasn't really a thing at that point?
You could also argue that the Semigalians were more akin to the Samogitians than to the Latgalians in regards of which group they should be grouped with.
Greetings, from Latgola.

Probably, but also, calling western Latvians Latgalians would be incorrect since their ancestors are Curonians and Semigalians, and they have little to do with people from eastern Latvia, where Latgalians live and have a distinct culture and language until nowadays.
 
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