"Jerusalem"-- the only named city that appears on the diplomacy map

[Moonflower]

I find this rather odd...

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perhaps dei can give us a cosmetic fix for this? obviously this has low priority all things considered, but it just seems weird that Jerusalem is the only city named on the entire map.......

[Augustusng]

True, it is a little odd. Especially since it's just a minor settlement on the grand campaign map. It would maybe make more sense if the four unique cities (Rome, Athens, Carthage, Alexandria) were named on the map though.

[Bloodsucker]

I haven't noticed that but I consider it should be changed somehow in the future cause Jerusalem is totally irrelevant for the map.

[Ivan_Moscavich]

Isn't it on there because it's also the province name?

[NerZhulen]

Its definitely not the name of the province.
Jerusalem is today probably the most known city in the world, but back then, it had zero significance.

[Ivan_Moscavich]

Its definitely not the name of the province.
Jerusalem is today probably the most known city in the world, but back then, it had zero significance.

Yeah my mistake, I mixed up region and province on the screenshot.

[Hehaho15]

The region is called the Levant now right, was it called that back then? I'm sure one of our Professors/History buffs can correct me if I'm wrong

[Kirsch27]

Yes, I also noticed this. I don't really mind it since I hardly spend any time staring at the map screen, but it doesn't make a ton of sense.
Jerusalem was a decent sized city, but it was not the center of the world that many today might think of it as.

Today the area can be called Palestine, the Levant, Judea etc. The Romans of our game period would have called it Judaea.
Later, the province of Judaea was merged with the province of Syria after the Bar Kokhba revolt's defeat in 135. This new larger province would be known as Syria Palaestina.

After about 250 years, the Eastern Roman Empire reorganized the territory once more, separating Syria and Palaestina from each other and dividing both into smaller subdivisions for administrative purposes.
The area of Judaea would be split into three provinces; Palaestina Prima, which roughly stretched from Gaza in the south to Caesarea in the North, and from Jericho and Samaria in the east; Palaestina Secunda, stretching from the Dead Sea in the south to Capernum in the north, with Nazareth and Samaria along the western border; and finally Palaestina Salutaris, encompassing Negev and the Sinai, bordering Arabia on the southeast and Egypt to the southwest.

After this period the region was lost to the Arabs, and it was known as Filastin, generally considered a part of wider Syria or al-Sham.

[geala]

It should go. It was not such important in the Hellenistic timeframe and some billions of people of today would also deny a special priority of that city.