Crossroads: The Caucasus Overhaul
A mod, that attempts to improve the historical accuracy of the Caucasus region. Mainly by adding new provinces, titles, characters*, and fixing some of the existing ones. It also adds Caucasian culture group, new cultures (dagestani, abasgi, circassian and nakh), and moves georgian and alanian into that group.
This is my very first mod, and I’m really bad at it, so it turned out pretty sloppy, but fine for me. I don’t think it needs much description, as you can see everything on the screenshots. I will say though, that I’ve done a lot of research, especially on the holdings. In the vanilla game, the majority of the holdings in the steppes to the north of Caucasus are taken from russian 19th century forts and modern towns. I’ve changed them into the real turkic settlement names, that I was able to find, and also reduced the number of possible holdings for most of them, because during the research I realised there was hardly anything built there. The caucasian provinces that do exist in the vanilla, also have pretty messed up names, and I fixed them too. There’s also a lot of the dynamic names**.
I think, apart from adding more historical accuracy, the mod also slightly improves the gameplay. In the vanilla game, Georgia would often expand northward, conquering the steppes, and sometimes even losing its core historical provinces. With this mod, the northwards expansion gotta become more difficult.
*most characters are fictional, due to the lack of information, but there are a bunch of the real ones, also the dynasty names are all real, not always historically correct though.
**Since 2 provinces of Alania historically turned into Kabardia around 15th century, I wanted to add a dynamic name for circassians on these provinces, but, for some reason, it ruins the whole landed_titles file, and I don’t know why. Didn’t have that problem with other dynamic names.
I decided, not to flood this page with all the de-jure, religion and culture screenshots, but you can see all of the on them the Paradox forum page of the mod: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/a-caucasus-mod-crossroads.1064663/
UPD: added Uatsdin religion for Alans. KeizerHarm made the icon.
