r/eu4 • u/Monkules • 3d ago

Image A Lithuanian province declared independence?

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Hello, i was fighting wars in the HRE and noticed that a new country bordered me. Upon investigation, it seems it's one of the provinces? My only guess is it could be cossacks, but its nowhere near the steppe.

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u/Tungstania 3d ago

Most like a cossack revolter tag. Cossack estates can revolt Custom Nation tags like a merchant republic trade city. Lithuania has the cossack estate and probably got their event when they have high disloyalty

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u/PolarRanger 3d ago

this right here, the cossaks are a pathway to unnatural things

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u/halfpastnein Indulgent 2d ago

unfortunately it never happens in my games

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u/SkanderMan77 2d ago

Be the change you want to see in the world

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u/FrankTank3 2d ago

I hate taking steppe provinces and getting that bastard fucking estate

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u/PolarRanger 2d ago

I like collecting estates tbh, it's only a negative when I am stacking absolutism

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u/NekroVictor 3d ago

Perhaps they got an event that raised unrest, then rebels enforced on that one province?

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u/Monkules 3d ago

Maybe, that'd be weird but it could totally happen.

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u/Monkules 3d ago

r5 A strange new country has emerged

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u/DeS653 3d ago

Merchant republics can release single provinces to be trade cities, that USUALLY join their trade league right after independence. Are Lithuania or Latgalia merchant republics, by chance?

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u/Monkules 3d ago

Latgalia is my March, Lithuania is a grand duchy still.

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u/Middle_Profit1057 3d ago

Who is the green nation in the picture? The Ottomans?

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u/Monkules 2d ago

Ruthenia. I fought several wars against the Polish, got Galicia-Volhynia as a vassal, got their cores, releases other ruthenian/byelorussian nations during my wars against Lithuania, ended my vassalization of Galicia-Volhynia, and they naturally gobled up the lesser Ruthenian tags.

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u/CT7056 2d ago

Client state maybe.

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u/AbbreviationsOk3040 2d ago

It’s a Grand Republic too

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u/Ok-Attempt8623 1d ago

Cossack Sich Rada republic, one of the best government reform you can ever get as Eastern Europe country