Glad to see this discussion staying on track! Unlike some who resort to using new accounts or outside help just to manipulate reactions. I personally give likes or dislikes based on the content, without resorting to such tactics. That said, since we can report users for abuse, is there also a way to report moderators if needed? On a brighter note, its interesting to see more attention on the Balkans these days.
Allow me to add some on the matter of "Albania sleeping after being part of the empire" i only made an explanation about Croatia. Regarding that claim particularly, that ‘Albania only mattered under Skanderbeg' wich is inaccurate.
), which was also the name of the medieval county, as it is also shown on your maps. However, it is shown as a Location, not as a Province, while the nowadays city Szolnok is a Province... Also, instead of the current capital of the current county, my hometown, named Gyula would become the capital of the county, intsead of Békés. I would personally apprechiate if you would look into this issue, since it would mean a lot to me. c:
Every date you just wrote is over 100 years after the start of the game, and about one person. My thinking was they have flavours for countries that were at least somewhat sequential at the start of the game barring some really important countries like GB, Prussia and Russia. Honestly i think even Serbia will get nothing other than empire, and implosion of it. And that only because it is at the start of the game and it is tied to the fan favourite ERE.
With all due respect, both Szolnok and Békés used to be both the names of cities and counties at the same time (although technically the name of Szolnok county was Külső-Szolnok). Gyula became the most prominent town in Békés county after its namesake town Békés diminished in importance, in 1337, Békés was the most important settlement in Békés county.Hello! I really enjoy looking at the development of youor game! I am very excited about it!
However, I would like to add my opinion on hungarian Locations and Provinces.
I was born and raised in Békés County (which means Peaceful County
Also, almost all of the Counties of Hungary are incorrect, but I would assume having that many counties would mess with the balance of the mechanics in the game >.<
You can find my sources on wikipedia as:
Best wishes,
- Counites of Hungary (1000-1920)
- Békés County
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Yes 100% my own posts covered this too, although I focused excxlusively on the pop/ethnic composition of the areas. But its very clear from the descriptions of several sources that there was barely if any control of the area:
Yes this is very much a problem with the current set up. There is already a stream of migration going downward before the games start wich only intensifies dramatically into changing the makeup of entire regions in mainland Greece. The devs have added the Vlachs migrations already but despite the Vlachs being the first to mover southward it is known that they were far outnumbered by albanians:
I thought of this too, it seems the devs won’t simulate the albanian migration into mainland Greece at all. They have added the arvanite culture(which means it is likely assumed to have already happened a long time before the game’s timeline. Hopefully they add some flavor to the balkans at some point later.
-75%? Where did you take that from? Even densely packed urban areas only had up to 50% population loss, but it more typically was around 30%
It’s just a worst case scenario based on the mortality of the bubonic plague. I don’t know how the devs have implemented it in game or how many pops typically die. As far as I know the plague killed up to 80% of Florence and 60% of Bremen. I think the 30% figure is more typical for the middle east, not Europe. Anyway, I am not sure about the numbers, it was just an assumption.
Yeah, not really hoping for much either. After all, the league of Lezhe and Skanderbeg wasn’t exactly inevitable…
The question is then distinct from whom? Halychians? I think your attempts at presenting more granular cultural tapestry runs the risk of misrepresenting Rusyn culture. Your overall presentation of a more dis-unified Ruthenian cultural sphere is correct in my assessment. But presenting people south of the Carpathians as Halychians is not. First off, modern day Rusyns are not the ancestors of a single migration wave east-west. Some of the ancestry dates back to the White Croats, some to the Wallachians and others to the Rusyns who migrated west as part of the Wallachian colonization into Hungary and Poland (will that event, btw, be represented in the game?). Francis Dvornik, an expert on early Slavic history, writes that the Byzantine Christian missions arrived to the White Croats in the south of the Carpathians almost a hundred years earlier than to the Rus. That is a major point of departure. Then you have the two Catholics unions (Brest and Uzhorod) which are active and separate to this day. Finally, consider what the people themselves thought. You will find dozensof towns named Ruske/a/y. How many towns named after Halycz? 0.
That would actually be in line with other historical examples. Take the Romanians, as an example. The last Romans. Where do we find them? At the very periphery of the former empire. Or at the island of Lemnos, where one to one British traveler asking about the people's origin, the locals replied: "we are the Romans."
How did Attila extract ethnic information from the 15th c data? As far as I'm aware the earliest data about the ethnic make up of Hungary comes from the early 19th c. when ethnicity and nationalism was gaining traction.
As Michal Hudak says: we are all Rusyns. We just don't know it yet.
It is questionable. You will find historians arguing both sides. Most likely scenario is that Orthodoxy arrived quite early from Moravia, survived in the mountainous northeast and was bolstered by the succeeding waves of migrants from the east beginning in the 13-14th c.
