@Birdman42

Thanks for the ideas! I'll keep all of this in mind when revisiting Scandinavia, which I'm hoping will be soon.

@Draiocht


So I've also gone ahead and done some more research on the rest of Scandinavia. Once again it's rough. I also touched up Denmark to get rid of some provinces that were obviously too small/lacking dev. Hope this helps.


Spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QFd5C09UClpA1_JDt_EPspeR91O2uTyZPF_4dS6yQAE/edit?usp=sharing

Province Maps:

Sweden:
https://imgur.com/zOD4C3x

Norway:
https://imgur.com/fUelvSg

Finland:
https://imgur.com/uwn9W4J

Denmark v2.0:
https://imgur.com/wyRMrs1

Scandinavia:
https://imgur.com/LtgNULk


Norway:

#1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 14, 15, 20, 24, 25 are all the same (sometimes with changed borders) as in BT 9.0.

4. Tønsberg: Oldest city in Norway and site of an important fortress. Important port and seat of a Len (county) in 17th century. Center of the world Whaling industry in 19th century. Similar borders to modern Vestfold county.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tønsberg

6. Solør: Name of a valley the runs through the center of this province. Mainly added to give Norway more strategic depth an split up the overly large Eidsiva county. Was the site of a petty kingdom in the viking era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solør

8. Buskerud: County with variable borders during our period. Site of important silver mine & weapons manufactureers in 17th century. Helps split up the large Oppland province.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buskerud

9. Telemark: Another county of Norway. In our period the term only refers to the northern, upland part of the modern province of the same name. Has its own strong regional culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Telemark

10. Grenland: The other part of the modern county of Telemark. Site of ironworks and sawmills as early as 15th century. Contains several ports. Also a petty kingdom during the viking era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenland

11. Nedenes: 17th Century county of Norway. centered on the important port of Arundel (founded mid-16th century) and the Setesdal valley. Shipping and timber are major industries.
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedenes_amt

12. Mandal: Another 17th century county of Norway. Centered on important port of Mandal. Regional trade port especially in fish. Also know as Vester-Risør.
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lister_og_Mandals_amt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandal_(town)

16. Sunnmore: Traditional region of the county of Møre og Romsdal. Contains much of that counties population and has a strong regional identity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnmøre

17: Romsdal: Rest of the county. Contains the major city Molde.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Møre_og_Romsdal

18 & 19: Sor-Trondelag & Nord-Trondelag: I split the quite large Trondelag county in two based on its division in 1804.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sør-Trøndelag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord-Trøndelag

21: Herjdalen: Provence of first Norway, then Sweden. Often associated with Jamtland but has its own identity and occasionally separate administration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Härjedalen

22 & 23: I split the large province Nordland (Halogaland) into its two main districts Halgleland (Halogaland) and Salten.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helgeland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salten


Finland:

# 1, 2, 3, 5, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17 Are the same, with some border changes, as in BT 9.0

4. Kymmenedalen: Swedish name for one the traditional regions of Finland centered on the Kimijoki river valley. Became increasingly important after the lost of Viborg to Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kymenlaakso
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehkalahti

6: Tavastland: The core of old Tavastland province after the next two provinces were pulled out of it. Includes Tavastehus an important regional trade hub.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavastia_Proper

7. Norra Tavastland: The northern part of Tavastland which roughly corresponds to the contemporary region of Central Finland. Has a strategic location running right through the center of the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Finland

8. Hollola: Roughly correspons to the region of Päijänne Tavastia; the south-eastern portion of Tavastland centered around Lake Päijänne . The primary city of the time is Hollola.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Päijänne_Tavastia
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollola

9. & 10. I split the large province of Savolaks into its two constituent regions Norra Savolaks & Sodra Savolaks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Savonia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Savonia

12 & 13: I split Ostrobotten into Norra Österbotten (Including central ostrobothia) and Södra Österbotten .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Ostrobothnia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Ostrobothnia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Ostrobothnia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrobothnia_(region)


Sweden:

# 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17 are the same as in BT 9.0 minus some occasional border changes

1 & 2: I split Jönköping province into two small provinces; one centered on the city of the same name and the other centered on Eksjö. Eksjö was the seat of a Thing (local assembly of notables) in the late middle ages and had city status throughout our period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eksjö
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jönköping

3 & 4: I split Kalmar province/county into a province centered on Kalmar itself and one centered on Vimmerby. Vimmerby is a very old city with strong ties to the Hanseatic League.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmar
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimmerby

5 & 6: I split Kronoberg County/Province into two smaller provinces one centered on the county capital in Växjö and the other on the western part of the county around the city of Ljungby. Ljungby was important in the beginning of our period though it faded away later before reemerging during industrialization.
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljungby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Växjö

10 & 11: I split Elfsborg province in two, one based on Gotenburg section of the Gotenburg & Bohuslan county and the other on Alvsborg county.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skaraborg_County
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothenburg_and_Bohus_County
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Älvsborg_County

12 & 13: I split Östergötland province into its two constituent regions Östanstång and Västanstång or East and West of the Stangan river. This allows us to represent both Norrkoping and Linkoping respectively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Östergötland

18 & 19: I split Vastmanland in two with the eastern half centered on Vasteras keeping its name and the western half becoming Bergslagen which is an important cultural region and center of iron production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Västmanland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Västerås
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergslagen

20 & 21: I split the large province of Varmland into two parts East and West. Right now tentatively named Arvika (West) and Karlstad (East). Unfortunately both were founded after our start date. The split is mostly to add more strategic depth to the region between Sweden and Norway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Värmland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlstad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvika

22 & 23: The other tentative province split; this time Dalarna. At the very least the two settlements Falun (22) and Mora (23) did seem to exist at our start date. Falun in particular is important as it is the site of the largest copper mine in Sweden if not Europe. Mora was the sight of some famous events surrounding Gustav Vasa's rebellion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora,_Sweden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalarna

24 & 25: I split Gastrikland, a traditional province of Sweden, off from Neighboring Halsingland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gästrikland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hälsingland

26 & 27: I split Medelpad, another traditional province of Sweden off from neighboring Angermanland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ångermanland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medelpad

28 & 29: I also split Norrbotten, another traditional province of Sweden, off from Vasterbotten.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Västerbotten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrbotten

30, 31, 32: I tentatively split the extremely overly-large Lapland into three slightly smaller provinces based on major rivers/lakes that flow through Lapland. I don't have good names or much historical precedent other than that before the establishment of Lapland County the territory was divided based on river systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland_(Sweden)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lappmarken

@Birdman42

Some serious promise here, and one or two things I did myself then cut due to lack of development (now less a problem with dev doubling), though I expect I might have a question or two, as well. I hope you'll bear with me as I finish up 10.0 & related addons, then I will hopefully be able to dive into this more.

Nice! How did I miss this. I wish it gave me notifications for new discussions. This looks like a lot of research!

@Birdman42

Thank you again for this work & the ideas! As you can probably see, 11.5 was able to incorporate many of these ideas & they are now in game =D.