It is really hard to make comments about provinces which are not shown completely, e.g Bessarabia and Jedysan.
0) not knowing what was exactly done to the provinces east of Chernigov it is hard to decide oldID and new tax.
1) Bessarabia it is area ceded to Russia in 1812, previously Moldavia (I hope that nothing more), so it could be considered with Moldavia.
2) Jedysan seems to be too big - look at map shown in link provided in second post after new AGCEEP map. You can see Black see there, here not.
3) Pereyaslav is also not completely visible
3b) form post on next page :
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It looks like previous "Krementjug" was merged into Jedysan. And while Jedysan belonged to OE,
Krementjug belonged (over half of game) to Lithuania/Poland.
Matter of Kiev. When Poland signed treaty with Russia in 1667 left bank Ukraine (Pereyaslav/Poltava and non
existing Krementjug) was ceded to Russia. On the right bank Russia got city Kiev and small strap of land, I can try
to dig out exact area but looking at map (1:5millions) it looks like about 200 square kilometers (maybe little less?).
It is situation like with city Riga.
My suggestion would be to merge Kiev with Pereyaslav and return "Krementjug" giving it name Zaporizhzhia (in Polish
Zaporoze, this English transcription of Ukrainian word is great, Wild Fields or Zaporozhye using Russian name.
4)Chernigov, Smolensk and Polotsk are too big. Between Polotsk and Smolensk there should be province representing Vitebsk and Mstislav(old Mozyr?)
EDIT: if Chernigov represents duchy of Chernigov not Chernigov voivodhip than it is OK (more or less, but could give some land to Ukraine)
4b) Polotsk was involved in Livonian wars, so if smaller (and moved little north - see next point about Ostrov), Russia would get core on it, but Mscislav and Vitebsk remained in Lithuania till partitioning (part of old "Mozyr" province); as I proposed (until separate province is create) Polotsk should be renamed to Vitebsk (which together with Mstislav) was greater than Polotsk. Anyway as you will notice on vanilla map Polotsk also repreents Vitebsk (Vitebsk is main city of province Polotsk); but Herr Doctor did not agree ;( so Polotsk stays
5)Ostrov - half of province should belong to Pskov, second half to Lithuania (in 1419)
6) Masovia (on map Mazovia) and Warszawa (on map Warsaw) - frankly speaking Warszawa is main city of Mazovia,
see this map for historical division of Masovia IMO better division of Masovia would be along North-South line with Warszawa on east and Plock on west
if we make veritcal split then historically Poland can gain western part in XVth century and eastern in 1526
6a) Warsaw should be more "shallow", without that southern inset
7) Chelmno represents part of Poland which was lost and later was recovered by Poland from Teutonic Order. Since Poland has to recover also Warmia and Pomerelia it could be worth considering removal of this province because there will be too many low tax provinces
7a) Instead of Chelmno Kalisz could be introduced, since it was much larger, so: merge Chelmno and Cuiavia and from Cuiavia, Sieradz and Poznan cut out Kalisz.
7b) Edit: As rybka proposed Chelmno could be merged with Warmia cutting narrow strip from Masuria (and that pointy tip could be moved to Masovia). It would make perfect sense as both provinces were gained by Poland in 1466 and would "save" Prussian tax and manpower. On the other hand there is problem of culture: Chelmno was polish and Warmia baltic.
7c) if Chelmno stays it should be smaller an not adjacent to Warsaw
8) since we are supposed to use original names not englisg transcriptions "Kuyavia" should be renamed "Kujawy"
OK, we are not supposed
(but discussions in French thread turns French names all the time
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9) Historical province of Kraków is Malopolska (Lesser Poland) and of Poznan is Wielkopolska (Greater Poland); If it is possible I would prefer to see names of provinces not cities on map (however they are longer)
10) Silesia (464?) and Opole were created from old Silesia so tax for Opole will come from old Silesia
11) another Polish name if anyone is interested Masovia = Mazowsze
12) about names for Pomerelia and Hinterpommern in post 540 and others above; in German new map thread I have proposed to rename Pommern to Stettin and Hinterpommern to Pomerania
13) Ukraine should be shifted east (decreasing size of Chernigov and Kiev) while Volynia should be bigger on east - that way it will be also clear that is adjacent to Podolia
14) province Navagradak could be renamed Black Ruthenia but Herr Doctor does not like this name
so agreement was reached and other provinces should be renamed
Red Ruthenia -> Lwów
Belarus -> Minsk
15) Sieradz should be smaller and Sandomirze bigger
16) name of Velikie Luki, IMO there should bo no "o" (Louki)
