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Western Europe Trade Nodes with Irish Sea Added

Try a new trade node infrastructure in the Old World.

This mod overhauls the trade nodes , primarily around the North Sea, English Channel, Lubeck, Sevilla, Genua & Venice.

Rebalances the End nodes;
English Channel has fewer regions,
Genua has fewer regions,
Venice has additional regions, from Cantabria & Cicily
North Sea has fewer regions in the British Isles with a few added from Lubeck
Lubeck has slightly fewer regions to balalnce the North Sea node.

This mod adds one new Trade Node, centered in the Irish Sea. Using Territories next to the Irish Sea in Ireland & Britain.

Sevilla now has both Genua & Venice End Nodes downstream to add flavour & realism to the Meditteranean, Venice had historical trading links with Castille & Northern Europe.
Irish Sea Node receives from North Sea, Bordeaux & Chesapeake Bay.
Irish Sea Note sends trade down stream to English Channel & Sevilla.
New Centers of Trade & Rivers added to The North Sea, Irish Sea & Bordeaux trade nodes.

This should add a new level of oppurtunity & complexity to the waterways of the Old World, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Historical Validations:
Venice & Genua competed throughout the inland seas of the Meditteranean, the Adriatic & beyond. Venice, after declining in favour with, at first, the Byzantiums and later the Ottomans, had trading priviledges and low tariffs revoked and lost their access to Constantinople & the lucrative spice trade between the East & Europe.

With their island fortresses and formidible navy, they began looking from other oppurtunities. When Granada was taken (or retaken!) by Christndom, Venice began trading first with the Castillians and later further north, getting involved in trading of fish & hides from Western shores and metals from the North Germanic shores, eventually forming strond bonds with the Deutch speakers of the Lowlands (later the Dutch) . People have left comments about trade not being possible to Venice from the New World. This mod allows a route for that as well as adding some complexity & competition in the trading game between Genua * Venice.

Further North, The Irish Sea was a major trading, hub between britons & Irish & the continent since at least the bronze age. Copper from Cornwallum & tin from Munster, in SW Britain & Ireland meant traders would use the Western coasts of modern day Spain, France, Britain & Ireland for trade, transport, migration & invasion.

Around the year zero, with the expansion of Rome into the Iberian peninsula, Iberian Celts, pushed out of their traditional territories, would have used this known route to migrate to some parts of Britain and large parts of Ireland, putting in place strong trading & cultural links.

During the Roman Era and after it's fall, this Sea would connect Roman Britain with the independant lands & tribes to the west & north.

With the decline of Roman power in Britain, came a major power vaccuum in the rich, fertile lands of old province of Britannia Angles Saxons & Jutes expanded their territories into South East Britain. Gaelic & Pictish peoples expanded their territories along the Western shores and northern borders of old Britannia.

Kingdoms & lordships have straddled both sides of this narrow sea, from the gaelic kingdom of Dal Riada in the 400s, to the rapidly changing power bases of the Vikings, some vikings, including The Sons of Ragnar and their decendants formed powerbases that united Dublin, York, Isle of Mann & the modern Irishh cities of Waterford, Wexford, Cork, Limerick & more.

Some of these regions & later the Western Isles region of Scotland, were lorded over by the descendants of Hiberno Norse warriors and societies.

Records Show strong trading links that connected the nothern Atlantic markets of fishing industries, livestock, hides & later metawith the southern markets of French & Meditteranian
kingdoms providing wines, spices, luxury goods & more.

In the last Millenia, the tide turned & the power would come from the East. As Anglia, Mercia & Wessex slowly banded together, against the power of the Danes and Norse, England emerged as a unified kingdom.

The Normans arrived to Ireland, from the east In 1171 & 1172, both armed with technologically advanced arms & armour and with an invitation from a minor Irish King. At this time The Angevin empire stretched from the Scottish marches to the ports of south western France. After conquering England 100 years previously then the Welsh kingdoms & French western provinces in the previous 50 years, some Norman-Anglo knights captured Wexford, in SE Ireland at the request of the exiled King, Diarmid McMorrow. Within a few years, the Anglo norman elites would control about two fifths of the territories of modern day ireland and would begin a period of complex relations, marriages, wars & movement & mingling of peoples between these islands that has lcontinued to the current day.

At the height of the British Empire, The Irish Sea would be a thriving hub of trade, within the home coutries & with the colonies. The ports of Dublin, Bristol, Chester, Limerick, Cork, Waterford and later Glasgow, Liverpool, Belfast & more would accept the goods of an expanding empire and act as a hub to transport further to the east or trande inland to feed the industries & markets of Britain & Ireland.

I hope you enjoy the mod. Comments & constructive criticism would be welcome.