Regarding German colonization: AFAIK genetic studies place modern Austrians in a cluster with the Czech, Slovaks, the Slovene and Hungarians. Which points towards more subtle processes of language change and elite recruitment rather than a massive influx of German colonists.
The you are writing that Austrian is not correct, I assume you mean that the province should actually have slovenian culture. I see your historical narrative, but whoever held the majority in 1444, the population progress was in favor of germans. And since there is no concrete point of evidence I would be sceptical to see the province change culture.
I hope you were able to tell from my post that I meant that it was undoubtedly a long, ongoing process. However, I agree that it is very hard to determine just how far-gone the assimilation had been at the time of the game's start date. My previous post was mostly speculation on what had influenced the strength of Slovene culture in those areas, not exact numbers.
The point of the post was that a) without a primary source on the matter, it will be a difficult choice, though it will probably be Austrian if for no other reason than because it already is and b) to make it clear that if at some point Paradox implements multiple cultures, then Carinthia should have both Slovene and German as its cultures.
I have read thatthe town of Gorizia had a significant italian immigration after 1500. Therefor I lean towards believing that Slovenian would be the most accurate culture of Görz. I would however prefer to have better sources.
Wrote some stuff about Gorizia in the other thread.
