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Not necessarily. A 3-way division could also work based on the three historical principalities (a.i. Moldavian for the Principality of Moldavia, Habsburgic Bukovina and the Romanian-inhabited parts of the Tsarist Empire; Transylvania for the Romanian-inhabited parts of Transleithania; Wallachian for the Principality of Wallachia).It's probably for the best that Romanian culture start in the game and be united. Romanian identity already had begun to form from the recent revolution in Wallachia during the Greek War of Independence, Russian guarantees shortly before start of the game and the upcoming revolutions in 1848 in Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania which were quite nationalist. I can understand the desire to keep Romanian fractured and then unite over time, however outside of Wallachian and Moldavian cultures, what do you add? You need something for the Romanians in Transylvania, Crisana, Bukovina, Maramures, Banat, Dobruja and even Serbia. You could make more regional cultures and use the names of the regions but I don't know if Romanian needs 9 cultures in total. I'm not opposed to regional cultures for Romania, but I think with the complications of other regions inside Austria and Turkey and that Romanian nationalism is about to explode shortly into the game.
As for other areas,
- Timok Romanians should be split between Wallachian POPs (speakers of Lower Wallachian subdialects, green in the picture below) and Transylvanian ones (speakers of Banat subdialects, yellow in the picture below):
- The Romanians in Dobrudja should be Wallachian in the pre-1878 period (although this is a convenient simplification since there were also Moldavians who came there from Budjak as well), with the upsurge in Romanian population in the post-1878 period being left to the game's migration mechanics given that the development of the modern Romanian Dobrudjan community was the result of settler colonialism (of both Wallachians & Moldavians, plus that of Balkan Vlachs who were encouraged by the Romanian state to come and settle in Dobrudja).
Ultimately though, I do not think that this division is necessary. From the perspective of historical what ifs scenarios, Romanian could have very well developed into a pluricentric language akin to Serbo-Croatian (e.g. had the conservative boyars and clergymen managed to either stop the election of Cuza or to disband the United Principalities following Cuza's abdication, Moldavian nation building and language standardization on the basis of the preexisting churchly language would've been a likely outcome; likewise in the case of Transylvania with those elements of the Romanian elite, of Catholic faith and of Western outlook, who were in favor of political reform within the Habsburg Empire rather than desiring to pursue some pan-Romanian political project alongside their 'less civilized' brethren), but to add too many cultures to the game would be counterproductive.
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