Can’t release Nation

[FrederickTheOk]

I’ve been doing a tall Tuscany run, and I just took Milan (the city) from Venice. The nation was wiped out within twenty years or so of the start and I plan to release it as a vassal. Yet when I go to the release vassal screen, Milan won’t appear. Milano is Lombard and a core of mine, so it’s not that it’s not Milan’s primary culture. Any ideas?

 

[grotaclas]

Hover over the flag of Milan. Does the core expire and if it does after how many years? If it expires after 50 years, they changed their primary culture to another culture group. Maybe they went bankrupt as an OPM with only a province of a different culture. That would give them that primary culture.
Or is Milan maybe your capital? You can't release that.

 

[FrederickTheOk]

Ah, I see. Milan was “exiled” to Switzerland in the last years of its existence, so it’s primary culture must have been Swiss. Thanks! I’ll just release montferrat or something instead and give them Milano.