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I've also never, in all my countless playthroughs, seen Portugal take control of the North African countries, it's always been a massive Castillan/Spanish reign of control.

In my current game as Japan, Spain only has 2 provinces in North Africa. 2 of the small ones. Instead, a blobby France took over and practically conquered huge amounts of the northern and western coasts of africa.
 
It´s probably sold to Ernie in the Sesamestreet, by a guy in a trenchcoat with a hat...

Yesterday, playing Mandchu, i had an heir, whose name was ´Dodo´ - that doesnt bode too well for the dynasty, i suppose...
 
That "Malian Europe" may be the most strange that I saw in a while in this thread, seriously.