Which sidebar do you like more ?
Are you gonna change the map to a more historical accurate with not so strange provs?
Now with the dark red, the atmosphere is a bit too dark, ...
I wouldn't make those changes. Anadolu means 'Anatolia' which is a huge chunk of land. So better keep it Izmit. Smryna is not Turkish so Izmir would be better. Karaman is plausible. Angora is not Turkish either so Ankara is better.
Only suggestion would be changing Treibzond to 'Trabzon' .
Terminator, You did really great job with all those graphics changes, and with the entire mod In my opinion this dark red looks good