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Playing as Mongol Empire, one of my sons went adventuring and conquered himself a duchy, giving himself enough prestige to become my heir. I vassalised him (so I wouldnt lose track of him), and eventually when I died he inherited the Mongol Empire. Now I had conquered parts of the silk road, and pillaged down all holdings but 1 city in a number of provinces, giving them over to other sons as Mayors. Upon inheritance, each of these cities has moved to the first holding slot (the rest keeping the horses signalling used by nomads). I still have the county titles, and on the map the provinces are hashed in as if partially occupied (but nothing in the province tooltip). My unused holding slots has dropped from around 40 to 13 according to my population tooltip (with population now dropping) and the Split Clan action is grayed out now (Occupied Provinces).
 
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Update: Tried to continue game, and found I cannot revoke these 'super baronies' in order to get my land back. This kind of makes Nomads unplayable unless you pillage absolutely everything and don't want much income from the silk road.
 

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Sounds very similar to this:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...hown-as-occupied-by-an-unknown-entity.872087/

In addition to giving you inherited baronies and setting them as the primary holding and as your capital you lose all (at least the max pop.) bonus from your "real" capital, the Yurt thing. The "revoke status as county capital" option is not available for these weird holdings. You can "fix" this by moving your own capital, but it usually happens quite quickly again. It seems that once these "occupied" counties appear it is only a matter of time before you inherit a barony and it is set as your capital.
Btw, when you inherit a barony like this there is no message about it and nothing in the log, it just happens.