Link to the full europe political map minus iberia kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mMmTZdd4nMC-eqM.html

i've always thought that EU4 is most fun when you are a small nation surrounded by similarly smaller nations so everyone gets the same chance to expand in every direction. The HRE looks like it'll have endless replayability.

I really love the colours they're using for these maps

2:45 the three islands are called the Balearic islands, the name you were looking for is Minorca. Ibiza is the western small island, Majorca is the large (hence Major) middle island, and the eastern smaller island is Minorca (hence Minor) 5:14 The grey culture group is Languedocien, since that's the region of Languedoc.

If I remember correctly, according to what we study at school in Spain, there was a lot of immigration coming to the south part of Spain from the northern parts to repopulate during the reconquista

Hey! Spanish Student in History here, wanted to expand upon the terms of christians and islams in iberia: The term you used "Mudejares" Refers to Muslims in Christian territory. Then there were the "Mozarabes" and the "Muladies": Christians and Muslim Converts in Muslim territory, respectively.

I'm from Spain and I love all the feedback that my fellow countrymen are giving to Paradox, me included, and how the team are being so reciprocal; they couldn't have done a greater job portraying the Peninsula, and they haven't even finished it yet, I'm so happy. Finally a Paradox game where Gibraltar is not ridiculous overrepresented! :D

I think there is going to be no crossing in eu5, look at the gibraltar and the balearic islands, there are no crossing between them, this should make navies more important.

I would like to see a "temprature" on the population count mapmode, something that shows a color scale comparing the population of each location in relation to each other. When you press on a location owned by a country the temperature shifts to only take into account the location population of that country. If you have no country selected it compares all locations against each other

Good job for paradox using the community’s knowledge and wishes to polish the game

What is the point of this video? We all know that Iberia isn't real anyway. If EU5 wants to promote historical accuracy, Iberia better not be there

It would be nice if the vegetation changes trough the development of the location. As an exemple : with colonisation some lands turn from woods to farmlands, and the black death makes some farmlands turn grasslands due to the population loss.

21:08 That's the Al Jaza'ir market, Al Jaza'ir is the Arabic name of Algiers.

As an asian, althought I love history but europe's history is so complicate with tons of nations, characters and politics so I really love your history lessons. Keep up with the good work Ludi!

I wonder if the AI will be able to progress historically. They are adding a ton of mechanics, the game will be a lot more complex...

I was worried they would forget the Marinid possessions in Gibraltar and Algeciras

I love that they included the Peñiscola location, it's just a small seaside town but it's an historical place, with the last fortress built by the templars later on used by one of the antipopes, Benedict XIII aka "papa luna", from 1417 to 1423. Oh, and the fortress was used as the set for Mereen in GoT!

Thanks for the updates Ludi! Keep em coming!

really like the development so far

honestly I'm really excited for eu4 as its like a mix of vic3, imperator Rome and eu4 with even bits of hoi4 too, I really think its going to be a great game especially because they're taking the communities advice too!

TY for the info. I have no worries about the quality of the "maps". It's everything else that I wonder about;) I have played little of the other games that some EU5 systems have apparently been adapted from. EU5 could be a masterpiece that neatly incorporates all they best of previous paradox games, or it could be a Frankenstein's monster. It looks to be quite complex, and knitting it all together cleanly is a BIG job.

Andorra world conquest would be a nasty achievement. Pyrenean World Order. Peak Domination. Tiny Titan. Something like this.

Aragon’s name should be “Crown of Aragon” as well

I love the new outros Ludi and we love and appreciate you as well.

Great video! Love it!!!

The fact that the crown of castille is not split up several vassal kingdoms (or at least Galicia, the kingdom wasn't completely centraliced into the crown until the late XV century) makes me quite mad. Specially because Galicia at the time was quite interesting with powerful nobility, church and cities all vying for power.

There was actually a nation between the northern border of Spain and Portugal, Coto Mixto, however it was so insignificant and dismisable that in the 19th century Portugal and Spain just anexxed it with no resistance. It would anyways have a population much lower than a thousand(I estimate) so perhabs, since its so trivial, it is not worth putting in the game, but were they to actually put it, it would no doubt be the hardest start in EU5

10:30 you gotta give credit to the Valois. They saw that there was to much kings named Louis, so instead they only had two kings called Louis so they could meet the minimum requirements, and decided to have a lot of kings named Charles instead. They even brought a new name with Francis

Alfonso X " El Sabio" gotta be my favourite Alfonso

The french culture group you are asking is languedocien. It is from the province of Languedoc.

Thanks again 👍👍. Keep going 💪

The light grey-blue culture in France is Lengadocian and it is one of the 6-7 cultures that are in the group Lenga D'oc. The others are Gascon, Limousin, Auvergnat, Provençal, sometimes Niçard (some see it as Ligurian) and Vivaro-Aupenc (sometimes called Alpine-Provençal, other times split into Vivarais and Aupenc).

15:20 "Interesting, so they didn't start in Sweden like in EU4" I completely forgot Tinto is a Spanish studio until you said that lol

Ngl the HRE looks super fun to play in!

I know my hopes are probably going to be crushed (based on their last 5 releases) but I’m pre ordering EU5 anyways.

Hi Ludi! I'm from a town 10 km away from "Los Yébenes" in La Mancha. It actually makes me sad that Los yebenes is so overrepresented and they completely avoided "Consuegra" which was way more important in that time and had a huge castle that is still standing, can be visited and has appeared as wallpaper in Microsoft. It was the headquarters of the Order of San Juan. Is there any way to contact Paradox about this?

I assume those Pyrenees passes will have some sort of debuff/slow to them considering how narrow a mountain pass would be IRL. Hopefully so!

Luedi, was the south of Kastille really that homogenous Catholic Castilian cultured back then? With the fall of Cordoba not so long ago I d expect a lot more Andalusian I think.

10:58 Same man, same. It's hard to memorize for real.

What I'm loving from this map so far, is that the borders look so much better than the vanilla ones of EU4

There's some crazy little tidbits here. The first is that Galician, Asturleonese, and Aragonese are considered their own languages, and that's being used as the basis for their own culture. Historically, this was no longer the case when Castile, and later Spain, centralized the regional dialects into a larger Spanish language, by making their dialect, Castilian, the official one. Those dialects would drift over time, to be mutually understandable by all Spaniards. This makes me think that the integration of these languages, and probably entire cultures, will be a far more realistic and involved process. And language may even be simulated separately from culture. Also, I commented in past videos about how I hoped that diverse kinds of food would be simulated, since the nutrient-dense new world foods like potatoes, tomatoes, etc. were instrumental in Europe's population boom. This basically confirms that more than just grain will be simulated, so the groundwork for this feature officially exists!

Languedocian was a south-western Occitan culture at the time! Likely this'll come along with the Provencal and Lemosin sub-cultures in the same region. :)

They really got inspired by one of your thumbnails

A couple of notes on Portugal: it’s weird that Braga is not a location on the map instead of Guimarães or Barcelos. It was a very important and very old catholic city. Guimarães has relevance from having the castle from which the first king of Portugal was based, but barcelos I’m not so sure. In Algarve, Silves was arguably more important city than Lagos, since it had city status long before during the reconquista, had a castle and its river was historically navigable, although not in the modern day. It’s also weird that the location has hills terrain when the south of Portugal is notably flatter than the north. There are some hills in algarve but they are on the more eastern side. The coastline does have cliffs, but I wouldn’t describe that as “hills”.

"Languedocien" as primary culture of Languedoc which has roughly been the south half of France at some point. It is named this way because south and north of France had pretty different languages. In the south for yes it was "oc" and in the north it was "oil". French derived from langue d'oil (which became "oui" with time") and langue d'oc became a regional language that central power tried to make disappear. Nowadays "Languedoc" remains in the name of the former french region "languedoc roussillon" and even in the new region "occitanie"

The culture in southern France that you were unfamiliar with is the Languedoc, they were a culture group/governing body that fell into decline after the Albigensian Crusade allowed the Capet to exert more control over southern Occitan.

Languedoc (Langue d'Oc) is a French name for Occitania - the term refers to the collection of Gallo-Romance dialects spoken in the South of France whereas Languedoïl (Langue d'Oïl) is used for the dialects of the North. Both "Oc" and "Oï" (Oui) are affirmatory responses derived from the Latin "hoc illud" (from which also comes, I suspect, the English "okay" (the jury is still out on that one and quite liable to be indefinitely hung)).

At 5:12 "guedocien" is almost certainly referring to languedocien, which is referring to Occitan.

Do you think , when you are in war u will siege location or province with all locations at once?

Languedocien is an occitanic culture langue ( tongue, language) docien ( docien = d'Oc - Occitan ). Languedoc is the OG occitan province, separated from the gascon language, which is also often called occitan too, they are very similar.

langedocien or occitant is the major second culture group in France. In fact Catalan language and Catalan culture begun as a dialect of Occitan and that's why Catalan culture share more in common with South France than Iberian Peninsula. France is dibided with Langed'oil (oui) and Langed'oc (oc) languages, French is Langedoil with many other languages and dialects and occitan is the biggest Langedoc language, with other languages or dialects like the Provençal. Recently I've been traveling arround the Côte D'Azur and as a Catalan was very surprising to see how many Toponyms are repeated literaly there. Many of this land was in somehow part of the Casal de Barcelona during Middle Ages. And the Catalan Flag is in many places in South France.

Formentera. The small island in the balearic islands is call Formentera.

Languedocien contractions for

There are so many nations i want to play first when EU5 comes out xD But yeah Brandenburg is one of them. Until now i havent seen any language map mode. There was one trade window where you got certain bonuses on language. Maybe they are bound too culture.

When do we think this will get officially announced? I want to see the title font dang it

I see what they're saying about the vegetation not feeling quite right. Now climate has shifted some ofc with greater water usage by humans but having been through southern Spain those farmlands could be worth distinguishing as a dry farmland because these places are DRY and brown, basically looks like Southern California/Northern Mexico

ludi bro when do you start working at paradox tinto?

Makes sense they started with Iberia since it's Tinto

I hope they do the Anatolia/Aegean region soon. I think it will be one of the most interesting and different from EU4, culturally and religiously

Scooby was a monarchs name. He was a Great Dane. I'm not sure if his regent/consort was called Shaggy though.

Southern french culture is "Languedocien", its basically the cultural area of the county of Toulouse which is from the occitan culture group alongside "Aquitain" and "Provençal", the name itself basically mean "Speaker of the oc (occitan) language"

I want you to play as Andorra in EU5 🎉

technically if there is a hashed culture it doesn't necessarily mean the main one has >50% prevalence, it just means it's the largest minority (e.g. if there are four cultures in an area, with 10%, 20%, 30%, and 40% of the population, the base colour would be the 40% population culture hashed with the 30% culture).

I agree byz and brandenburg should be first but you said you’d do wallachia/Moldavia first in another comment a while ago!

the cultural map seems to follow linguistic lines, and by the XIV century galician and portuguese weren't really distinct enough to be considered separate languages, but I get that for gameplay purposes it's best for them to be separate so portugal doesn't have a reason to try and invade castille in every game.

21:47 notification sound lmao

Ludie is gonna do something devious when eu5 releases

3:34 Since the moors have the coast of southern Spain, they still have a chance to re-Reconquista Really a more-balanced map!

now i kinda want to see Ludi in CK3 making the dynastie Scoobie restoring the glorious roman empire.. gotta change the names scheme a bit x)

game will be out probably sooner than i expected

Ludi, will you ever start uploading in 1440p? I want to see that glorious face in higher resolution on my TV :)

5:13 it's Languedocien a subculture of Occitan (comes from the region of Languedoc (=langue d'oc))

In Toulouse it’s likely Languedoc(ien)

if eu5 comes next year when i am in army.i am gonna freak out for reallll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My god they put Olivença! Today is Spanish but before napoleon was Portugues

Shuld i buy EU4 DLCs or is it a waste of money at this point and i shuld wait till eu5?

5:13 Maybe the culture's called 'Langedocian' named after the fact that people in southern France say yes ('oc', from here also the name Occitania). If that's right, then in the north of France the culture will be called 'Langedouian'

The culture in southern France is Languedocien, they speak the Langue D'Oc (Occitan)

Me getting super happy to get a Portugal map, even tho I know the borders were going to be the same. Portugal crlho!!!

Aragon should be ruled by Aragorn and be in a PU with Gondor.

Depending on how groubded in reality the game is, saltpeter could be the most valuable tradegood. It was extremely rare, specially in europe.

Great video. Wasn't Portugal actually the kingdom of Portugal and the Algarve? I could be wrong, but as a Portuguese, i remember something like this in school. It only became just yhe kingdom of Portugal later on

Oh this game is looking good already.

By looking at the climate map i would guess winds blow mostly from west to east.

“Dynamic location naming system” yes come on this is what we want baby!!!

It should n t be a galician culture minority in nothern Portugal or a portuguese minority in galicia due to the origins of Portugal being from the galician culture and from the origin of the county of portucalense ?

Arid climate in Almeria, very good, I assume the local resource will be Spaghetti Western movies.

We were so close to seeing sicily. I just hope it IS sicily

Nothing to do with historical accuracy but surely the colours for Castillian and Catalan cultures should appear more visually distinct?

Languedocien is basically eastern occitanese. I think it is everything between Provence, Auvergne, Limousin, Toulouse and Catalan country.

Algarve might be the smallest province we've seen? It has 3 locations

If the europe map is so large and detailed, I wonder how will the Americas and Asia be?

Ludius maximus why you no play the updated 1.37 countries sir? I imagined you would be the first one to play netherlands and maximize the schnaps out of them.

Squibidi would be a good name for a monarch

Languedocien yes, which is considered the southern variant of french. In the Middle Ages, 2 main variants of french were acknowledged : "langue d'oil" in the north and "langue d'oc" in the south, "oil" and "oc" being how "yes" (now "oui") is said.

Muscovy will be amazing!

For Portugal it was Afonso, not ALfonso

Since u have some interest in Galicia, I would like to comment on a few things: 1) at that point (and at least until the 18th century) Galician and Portuguese cultures were exactly the same in every single aspect. 2) The borders they did for Galicia (specially external ones) have nothing to do with late medieval and modern age Galician borders but are those of the "Comunidade Autónoma de Galicia" (1980 borders). PS. Javier de Burgos reforms are from 1830, totally out of range to EU5 I guess. As well those provinces were based on french departaments (defensiveness balance, mountain, plain and coast if possible, after the one of José I) not over any traditional division of the peninsula. In fact there are several propositions around the late 18th and early 19th century much different to that of Javier the Burgos as nearer to traditional distributions as the one of 1822 approved in Courts. As well the pop distribution, is ahem, not good, and there are a good in deep amount of studies done about it (in free repositories from Universities), that could had been consulted but clearly weren't. As someone from the Peninsula and archeologist, I'm honestly disappointed with what they did in the Peninsula.

Andorra run would be cool

I just remembered, Sweden had just acquired Scania from Denmark in 1337 AND the swedish king was also king over Norway: Sweden is going to be crazy.