Have a Hungarian culture province, took it in a war, it has a Hungarian CORE, I'm unable to release Hungary. Anyone know if this is WAD?
Attempting To Release Hungary Not Possible
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Let me guess: Austria got a PU over them. AI LOVES to enforce culture then, which changed hungaries primary culture to austrian. So now you have a province that is a core of hungary, but not the primary culture, so you can't release it...
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Oh, I wasn't aware that it was something that could happen. Thank you for the heads up, I would have never guessed it.
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On the flip side, if you convert a Hungarian culture to Austrian, you can release Hungary. Counterintuitively. 
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That's... interesting. And the change is persistent, even if Hungary ceases to exist as a separate nation?
What does the core say when you hover your mouse over it? Usually it should say "Hungary is the primary nation of the Hungarian culture and will never lose this core" or something similar, but if the game considers the nation to be Austrian now, even if it doesn't exist any more, the core should expire in 50 years instead.
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Didn't the AI actually uses that - on a sidenote, why would anyone use it, I mean its just a huge sink of Dip, or is there any (hidden) advantage to it?
It can happen via event as the junior partner's monarch will have a different culture to them. I'm not sure why it's started happening so much recently though?
"Enforce Culture" is a subject interaction the overlord can use on the junior partner, and they love to do it.
As a workaround, can you "give back" the core to Hungary and vassalise the new OPM?
Just be careful that the core doesn't disappear if you culture convert it.On the flip side, if you convert a Hungarian culture to Austrian, you can release Hungary. Counterintuitively.
AFAIK, cores don't disappear if you convert a province to that TAG's primary culture. I don't even think it disappears if you convert it to a culture that isn't, unless that would also mean the core has expired under normal rules (50 years since it was last possessed by the TAG). But feel free to correct me on either if I'm wrong.
PS: It would, however, still disappear normally over time, as despite Hungary's primary culture being Austrian, it's not the primary tag of Austrian.