Why can't I release Tripoli as a vassal as Mughals?

[AxiomaticTruth]

Tripoli has been completely annexed by the mamlukes. If I press F to search "Tripoli" only the province (not the nation) shows up, so I know for a fact they do not exist anymore. The cores are still there and will run out around 1544 (currently 1500ish). I took the lands with the intention of releasing Tripoli as a vassal to feed more mamluke lands, but in the release vassals options there is no tripoli option! Every other vassal core is there though and I never had trouble releasing any vassals in any of my previous playthroughs of 100s of hours of play. Wtf?

 

[Schmoekoeksklok]

If all their core provinces have the wrong culture group, you can't release the country through any means, making the cores useless. Tripoli has this problem because it's Tuareg culture (African group) surrounded by Arabic culturegroup countries.

 

[ErikHeinrichs]

If all their core provinces have the wrong culture group, you can't release the country through any means, making the cores useless. Tripoli has this problem because it's Tuareg culture (African group) surrounded by Arabic culturegroup countries.

I had this issue when i wanted to release Timurids in a persian culture province. Or so i though, couldn't because of this "feature". I think it's silly that you can't release a country even though they have cores.

 

[Schmoekoeksklok]

Indeed, that's why I made this post:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...ion-Different-approach-to-wrong-culture-cores

Doesn't seem like many people care though