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Before 1340 Liubartas (most likely) ruled only territory around Liubar on Volhynia-Kyiv border, that territory could be made into vassal of Volhynia.
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There's no problems with the map, but It's 1337, not 1200s anymore. Selonian is almost extinct, there's no need to add it. Semigallian was still alive for like 2 more centuries and ideally should be there, but to not overcomplicate things it can stay as Latvian. But if the devs have no limits to adding cultures (looking at Africa), then yes, it should be there, but should normally disappear along with Curonian and assimilate into Latvians fully, when the Reformation reaches Livonia.
Latvians = Latgalians, they are synonyms. Like I have mentioned many times already, Selonians, Semigallians and Curonians in the territory of modern Latvia assimilated into them, while the ones in Lithuania assimilated into Lithuanians.
Not related to the topic, but It's actually really sad that Curonian and Semigallian languages didn't leave any written evidences like Prussian.
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Mazur is an old term for the inhabitants of Mazovia. That's how they defined themselves.
A small number of settlers from Mazovia settled in border villages. It is possible that they were Kurpians - Polish ethnographic group from the area of three locations in this game: Łomża, Ostrołęka and Kolno.
The Kurpie dialect is most likely the best-preserved dialect of the archaic Mazovian "language".
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At the Tinto Maps Feedback #4 people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. (The Caesar Bible | Pavía 22:30)
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In my opinion, it's a rude approach to remove something just because you don't like it. The creators have dedicated their time and effort to diversify the game and deepen the immersion - this deserves respect!
Silesian names for Silesian locations are excellent and definitely more interesting than their Polish counterparts. It should be the same with Kashubian locations. This is a nice gesture for regional minorities.
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He probably was present in Lutsk too for a short period in 1320-x after death of last Rurikids (Andrew and Lev Ii) and before compromise was reached about installing Yuri II as prince after which he received area in Eastern Volhynia with Liubar as compensation. Information about what he was doing before 1340 is sometimes contradictory so this statement needs to be checked of course.
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Yeah that's part of the reason I said it was a stretch, the rest of what I wrote I stand by, but the Masurian/Mazovian split is not something I would fight over. I mentioned in the post that having both be noted as one is fine with me.
I'm not asking to remove anything "just because I don't like it", I'm asking to change something that is conceptually confused.
To me this kind of mistakes destroy the immersion. And if you want to do "a nice gesture for regional minorities" you can add Silesian translations for all locations around the world, the question is what should be default names and what's the rule behind it.
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There are Silesian dynamic names for Silesian locations (+ Żywiec, Oświęcim and Siewierz). And that's awesome.
If it's so important to you that they are in Polish, then try to get them playing a Poland in the game. Lol
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Hello,
First of all, thank you for the update, the map looks great.
However, after looking at new locations I have a suggestion for a small change.
The town of "Strzelce Opolskie/Strzelce Wielgie/Gross Strehlitz" has been a famous place for hunting, the city even takes its name from the word "Strzelec" which in polish means "archer/hunter". The main historic palace in the city is known as "Hunter's palace", in the city square there's a statue of a hunter and many nobles throughout the ages came there for hunting, including kaiser Wilhelm II (which I know is the wrong time period but still). What I'm getting to is that I think changing the raw good there to Wild Game would be great to reflect the historical and cultural role of the city.
I'm not great at finding sources, but here's a quote from the official city website, I think they know what they're talking about
"The town Strzelce Opolskie developed from the early market settlement which was mentioned in documents already in the 13th century. The name of the settlement and the later town originates from shooters - princes' hunters, organising hunting parties in the area. This is commemorated by a hunters statue which has been standing in front of the town hall since 1929."
Here's the link to source, the website wouldn't let me attach a link so I did the best I could:
www<dot>strzelceopolskie<dot>pl/wizytowka_eng/history
Also a link to the wiki, though english version is quite poor, so I recommend either polish or german versions
en<dot>wikipedia<dot>org/wiki/Strzelce_Opolskie
First of all, thank you for the update, the map looks great.
However, after looking at new locations I have a suggestion for a small change.
The town of "Strzelce Opolskie/Strzelce Wielgie/Gross Strehlitz" has been a famous place for hunting, the city even takes its name from the word "Strzelec" which in polish means "archer/hunter". The main historic palace in the city is known as "Hunter's palace", in the city square there's a statue of a hunter and many nobles throughout the ages came there for hunting, including kaiser Wilhelm II (which I know is the wrong time period but still). What I'm getting to is that I think changing the raw good there to Wild Game would be great to reflect the historical and cultural role of the city.
I'm not great at finding sources, but here's a quote from the official city website, I think they know what they're talking about
"The town Strzelce Opolskie developed from the early market settlement which was mentioned in documents already in the 13th century. The name of the settlement and the later town originates from shooters - princes' hunters, organising hunting parties in the area. This is commemorated by a hunters statue which has been standing in front of the town hall since 1929."
Here's the link to source, the website wouldn't let me attach a link so I did the best I could:
www<dot>strzelceopolskie<dot>pl/wizytowka_eng/history
Also a link to the wiki, though english version is quite poor, so I recommend either polish or german versions
en<dot>wikipedia<dot>org/wiki/Strzelce_Opolskie
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Judging by German location names, I suspect that "Eastern Pomeranian" might represent the German Pomeranians while Kashubian represents the Slavic ones. Not sure if there was already so much Germans there in 14th century though.
There was no cultural difference between Prussian and Mazovian Masurs before the former became Lutheran. (Prussian) Masurs could emerge as a culture during the Reformation, but they'd make no sense in 14th century start date.
Bielsko and Biała were separate cities until 19th century and weren't officially joined until 20th. It'd be even worse anachronism than Łódź.
Post-WW2 name. It should be Rychbach.
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It was noted before that default names are supposed to be modern.
I called Łódź as a name of a location "an anachronism" not because there's something wrong with the name, but because taking Łódź as the most prominent town of the area would be wrong for that period of time.
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That's definitely interesting! Historical sources usually overestimate how much swamps, marshes and wetlands were present surface-area wise though. Lots of wetlands are indeed drained today, but super-sized wetlands and swamps are rare. So definitely not the entirety of Lithuania was a swamp.I’m not an expert on this topic, but from what I’ve heard, Lithuania had many swamps in the past. The Baltic tribes used a technique called ‘Kulgrinda,’ which was essentially a submerged pathway or bridge that allowed locals to cross while pursuing Teutonic knights would sink. I’ve also heard that Lithuania became less swampy because many of the swamps were drained for agriculture during Soviet times.
Again, I’m not an expert, and this is just based on what I’ve heard.
Kūlgrinda - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Did some digging and thankfully Lithuania's geology department's got our backs!
I adjusted my suggestion post with this info. Thanks for the feedback!
https://lgt.lrv.lt/en/about-lithuanian-geology/quaternary/
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I'd argue that picking a name based on a person born in 1811 (Dzierżoniów after Jan Dzierżoń) or one based on a merging of two distinct cities that remained separate for the entire run of the game would feel more wrong than Łódź being more prominent than it should.
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While relative topographic differences are absolutely important, hills in this region are absolutely nowhere nearly on the same level on what hills are represented as everywhere else in the game. With this categorisation almost nothing on the world map would remain flatlands.
I'm afraid their actual size and prominence are somewhat misrepresented on that Wiki page article
Especially when compared to the carpathians.
If ridge crossings or something similar would be introduced, they could be easily represented that way though, i think!
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That's fair. I'm just noting the rule set up by developers.
I might add asterisks to those, so that devs would know these are good places to go against general rule.
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Their rule is to use proper English naming conventions, not anachronistic English naming conventions.