Holy sites
Holy sites are baronies that are considered sacred by a Faith. If a faith controls a holy site, all characters belonging to that faith will gain a permanent bonus. For most religions, all faiths have the same holy sites. Most religions have 5 holy sites per faith, but a few have 6 or 7.
Uses[edit | edit source]
All characters belonging to a faith controlling one of its holy sites will receive a bonus unique to that holy site. This bonus will be lost if another faith takes control of the holy site, so different faiths will compete over control over them. Some holy sites, such as Armagh, belong only to a single faith. Others, like Jerusalem, are hotly contested by many faiths. Control of a holy site is determined by the faith of the county holder.
In addition to the bonus provided, holy sites have other effects. For instance, a ruler may choose to pay gold to go on a pilgrimage to one of their faith's holy sites. Several tenets grant additional bonuses from holy sites. For example, Ecclesiarchy provides a bonus to monthly fervor for every holy site that is controlled by the Faith. Holy sites are used when creating a Head of Faith. If a Head of Faith does not exist, then a ruler can create the title by controlling a holy site and paying gold, if it is a spiritual title, or by controlling a holy site and paying piety, if it is a temporal title. Reforming an unreformed Faith requires control of three of the faith's holy sites. When reforming or creating a new faith, the new faith will inherit the holy sites of the old faith.
Each Holy Site has a special building slot for a great temple. For some Holy Sites, this is a unique building such as the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya. The building slot can also be used for the special building Hall of Heroes, constructable only through the unique decision Defenders of High God (Ukko / Rod / Dievas). It is possible to replace unique buildings and the hall of heroes with a normal great temple, but the transition cannot necessarily be reversed.
List of holy sites[edit | edit source]
Name | Location | De Jure Kingdom | Effects | Faiths | Notes |
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Jerusalem | Jerusalem (shared with Mount Gerizim) | Jerusalem |
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The ancient capital of Israel and the site of the First and Second Temples according to Judaism. In Christianity, it is the location of Jesus's crucifixion, resurrection and ascension. In Islam, Muhammad travelled to Jerusalem from Mecca and there ascended to heaven. |
Rome | Vaticano in Roma | Romagna |
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Seat of the Holy See and the Pope |
Cologne | Cologne | Lotharingia |
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Site of the Cologne cathedral which houses many relics including those of the three magi |
Santiago | Santiago | Galicia |
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Location of the shrine, then church and finally cathedral of St. James the Great and final destination of the way of St. James, a pilgrimage route |
Canterbury | Canterbury in Kent | England |
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Seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of the Anglican Church |
Constantinople | Byzantion | Thessalonika |
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Seat of the Ecumenical Patriarch and location of the Hagia Sophia cathedral |
Alexandria | Alexandria | Egypt |
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Seat of the Patriarch of Alexandria |
Antioch | Antiocheia | Syria |
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Seat of the Patriarch of Antioch |
Aksum | Tigré | Abyssinia |
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Site of the Church of our Lady Mary of Zion, supposedly the former location of the ark of the covenant |
Napata | Meroë | Nubia |
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Site of a Nubian Coptic Church |
Dwin | Suenik | Armenia |
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Contains the Cathedral of St. Grigor |
Koloneia | Colonea | Pontus |
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Beirut | Beirut | Syria |
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Druze are concentrated in the mountains around this city. It was briefly under Armenian rule during the time of King Tigranes the Great. |
Baghdad | Baghdad | Mesopotamia |
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Patriarchical seat of Nestorianism and seat of the Abbasid Caliph. Home to the Al-Kadhimiya Mosque, which contains the tombs of Imani Imams Musa al-Kadhim and Muhammad al-Jawad. |
Farz | Shiraz | Persia |
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Kerala | Kanara | Maharastra |
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Location of a Christian community established by St. Thomas the Apostle. Location of Synagogues of Kerala. |
Armagh | Oriel | Ireland |
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Ecclesiastical capital of Ireland |
Iona | Inner Hebrides | Scotland |
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Monastery of Colmcille, who converted the Picts |
Visoki | Rama | Croatia |
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Town and fortress where many documents were written by nobles |
Ragusa | Ragusa | Croatia |
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Seat of the Archbishop of Ragusa and location of an Eastern Roman church |
Esztergom | Esztergom | Hungary |
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Seat of the primate of the Catholic Church in Hungary |
Albi | Albi | Aquitaine |
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Cathers were also referred to as Albigensians, after the city Albi where the movement first took hold. |
Mecca | Mecca | Arabia |
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Birthplace of Muhammed and destination of the Hajj |
Medina | Medina | Arabia |
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The city that Muhammed and his followers fled to from Mecca |
Cordoba | Cordoba | Andalusia |
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Seat of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba |
Sinai | Sinai | Egypt |
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Site where Moses recieved the Ten Commandments |
Tinmallal | Tinmallal | Maghreb |
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Where the Almohads launch their military campagin against the Almoravids. |
Fes | Subu in Fes | Maghreb |
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Renowned for its religious scholarship. |
Nadjaf | Kufa (shared with holy site of same name) | Mesopotamia |
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Contains Kufa, where Ali ibn Abu Taleb was assassinated, and Nadjaf, where he is buried |
Damascus | Damascus | Syria |
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Where surivors of the Battle Karbala were brought; home to two shrines to Hussein ibn Ali |
Siffa | Palmyra | Syria |
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Site of the Battle of Siffa, where the Muhakkimas began by rejecting Mu'awiya offer to arbitrate his dispute with Ali |
Kufa | Kufa (shared with Nadjaf) | Mesopotamia |
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Basra | Basra | Mesopotamia |
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Origin of Ibadi movement |
Nizwa | Nizwa | Arabia |
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Birthplace of Jabir ibn Zayd, the founder of Ibadism |
Sijilmasa | Sijilmasa | Maghreb |
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Where Sufrite Berbers settled after their revolt against the Umayyads |
Bahrein | Qatif | Arabia |
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Yamama | Yamama | Arabia |
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Sinjar | Sinjar | Jazira |
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Baalbek | Baalbek | Syria |
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Birthplace of Sheikh Adi |
Lalish | Ninive | Jazira |
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Tomb of Sheikh Adi |
Nishapur | Nishapur | Khorasan |
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Dashtestan | Mandestan | Persia |
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Zozan | Bakharz | Khorasan |
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Birthplace of Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad, founder of Druze |
Semien | Semien | Abyssinia |
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A legendary Jewish Ethiopian kingdom also known as Beta Israel |
Sufed | Acre | Jerusalem |
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Mount Gerizim | Nablus in Jerusalem (shared with holy site of same name) | Jerusalem |
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Panticapaeum | Kerch | Zaporizhia |
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Major Radhanite settlements in and around Crimea |
Itil | Itil | Caspian Steppe |
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Capital of the Khazars |
Kochi | Kunjakari inKerala | Tamilakam |
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Place from which the Kochin Jews get their name |
Manipur | Manipur | Kamarupa |
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Home of the Bnei Manashae |
Ahvaz | Ahvaz | Persia |
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Samarkand | Samarkand | Transoxiana |
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Udabhanda | Udabhanda | Punjab |
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Seems to be the place where the famous Taoist Qiu Chuji meet Genghis Khan |
Toledo | Toledo | Andalusia |
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Memphis | Hulwan in Cairo | Egypt |
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Bodh Gaya | Gaya | Bihar |
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The place where Gautama Buddha reached enlightenment under a Bodhi Tree. Some Taoist stories say that Laozi was the Buddha's teacher or even the Buddha himself. |
Lumbini | Lumbini | Himalaya |
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Birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, historical Buddha |
Sarnath | Varanasi (shared with holy site of same name) | Bihar |
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First place Buddha taught Dharma and subsequently origin of Buddhist Sangha |
Sanchi | Vidisa | Malwa |
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An ancient Buddhist complex commissioned by Ashshoka the Great. |
Ajanta | Vatsagulma (shared with Ellora) | Maharastra |
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Location of the Buddhist Caves in Ajanta |
Sa'gya | Sa'gya | Tsang |
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Dagon | Dagon | Pagan |
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Home to the Shwedago Pagoda, which contains relics from four Buddhas. |
Pagan | Pagan | Pagan |
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Capital of the Pagan Kingdom; the location was visited by the Buddha prior to the city's founding |
Atamasthana | Pihiti | Lanka |
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A series of eight locations visited by the Buddha durings his visits to Sri Lanka. |
Amaravati | Nallamala | Andhra |
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Site of a Buddhist monument. |
Varanasi | Varanasi (shared with Sarnath) | Bihar |
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One of the Saptapuri cities, founded by Shiva and where one of Brahma's heads was dropped to the ground where it sank into |
Ayodhya | Ayodhya | Kosala |
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One of the Saptapuri cities and the birthplace of Rama, seventh avatar of Vishnu |
Mathura | Mathura | Delhi |
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One of the Saptapuri cities and birthplace of Krishna |
Haridwar | Sthanisvara | Delhi |
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One of the Saptapuri cities and site where drops of Amrit, the elixir of immortality was spilt |
Kanchipuram | Kanchipuram | Tamilakam |
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One of the Saptapuri cities and site of many temples |
Ujjayini | Ujjayini | Malwa |
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One of the Saptapuri cities and location of the duodecennial Kumbh Mela festival |
Dwarka | Dvaraka | Gujarat |
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One of the Saptapuri cities and the site of where Krishna settled after defeating Kansa |
Palitana | Somnath | Gujarat |
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Contains nearly 1,000 Jain temples |
Shikharj | Radha | Bengal |
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Place where 22 out of the 24 Jain Tirthankaras atttained Moksha. |
Ranakpur | Naddūla | Rajputana |
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One of the largest and most important Jain temples |
Ellora | Vatsagulma (shared with Ajanta) | Maharastra |
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Site of the Ellora Caves, five of which are Jain. |
Sittannavasal | Kongu | Tamilakam |
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A Jain cave complex |
Itanagar | Itanagar | Lhomon |
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Pemako | Pemako | Lhomon |
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Rima | Rima | Lhomon |
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Tezu | Tezu | Lhomon |
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Kathmandu | Kathmandu | Himalaya |
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Ilam | Ilam | Himalaya |
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Garwhal | Garwhal | Himalaya |
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Jumla | Jumla | Himalaya |
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Maowün | Maowün | Gyalrong |
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Ngawa | Ngawa | Gyalrong |
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Chakla | Chakla | Gyalrong |
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Gyaitang | Gyaitang | Kham |
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Rebgong | Rebgong | Gyalrong |
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Xingqing | Xingqing | Xia |
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Yijinai | Yijinai | Xia |
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Alxa | Alxa | Xia |
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Yazd | Yazd | Persia |
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Home to many Zoroastrian refugees after the Arab conquest of Iran which stayed majority Zoroastrian for many centuries |
Nok Kundi | Riqan | Makran |
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Formerly Zaranka, capital of the Zarangiana satrapy under the Achaemenids |
Takht-i-Sangin | Balkh (shared with holy site of same name) | Khorasan |
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An ancient Greco-Bactrian citadel containing the Oxus Temple, which may have been home to a collection of Zoroastrian relics |
Takht-e Soleyman | Urmiya | Daylam |
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Site to the Adur Gushnasp darb-e mehr built by the Sassanids |
Ushi-Darena | Baduspan | Daylam |
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The mountain where Zarathustra attained illumination and received the word of Ahura-Mazda |
Uppsala | Upland | Sweden |
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Site of Scandinavia's pre-eminent temple, both before & after Christianisation |
Jorvik | East Riding | England |
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Site of Ragnarr Loðbrok's death |
Paderborn | Paderborn | Germany |
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Location of Saxon Irminsul destroyed by Charlemagne |
Könugarðr | Kyiv | Ruthenia |
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Center of Norse influence in Eastern Europe and capital of the Rus' |
Ranaheim | Trændheim | Norway |
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Ranheim was site to a cultist Norse temple used from the 4th to 10th century |
Raivola | Kakisalmi | Finland |
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Island home to ancient burial sites |
Hiiumaa | Osel | Estonia |
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Akkel | Akkel | Sapmi |
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Possibly the site of Ukonkivi (English: 'Ukko's rock') an island holy site to Finnic pagans who believed the island had sacred natural formation |
Perm | Perm | Permia |
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Capital of Permia |
Kyiv | Kyiv | Ruthenia |
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Important city for ancient and medieval East Slavic culture and civilization |
Novgorod | Novgorod | Novgorod |
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Capital of the principality of Novgorod |
Barlad | Barlad | Moldavia |
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Plock | Plock | Poland |
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Pokaini | Dobele in Zemigalians | Lithuania |
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Toruń | Chełmno | Lithuania |
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Braslau | Braslau | Lithuania |
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Rügen | Rügen | Pomerania |
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A site of pagan cult all the way until mid-12th century |
Pest | Visegrad | Hungary |
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Kerch | Kerch | Zaporizhia |
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The target of many steppe empires, including the Göktürks, Khazars, and Mongols. |
Olvia | Olbia in Odessa | Zaporizhia |
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Poszony | Poszony | Hungary |
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Sarysyn | Sarysyn | Zaporizhia |
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Tyumen | Tyumen | Yugra |
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Surgut | Kazym | Yugra |
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Ob | Ob | Ob |
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Olkhon | Olkhon | Buryatia |
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Karakorum | Karakorum | Mongolia |
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Capital of the Mongol Empire between 1235 and 1260. |
Qayaliq | Qayaliq | Zhetsyu |
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Tavan Bogd | Tavan Bogd | Ob |
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Preslav | Silistra | Bulgaria |
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Capital of the First Bulgarian Empire. |
Athens | Attica | Hellas |
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Major Hellenic city-state and patron city of Athena |
Mount Olympus | Servia in Thessalia | Thessalonika |
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Sacred mountain associated with the Olympic pantheon |
Carthage | Tunis | Africa |
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Phoenician colony turning trading empire, later rebuilt as capital of Roman Tunis |
Kabul | Kabul | Kabulistan |
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Multan | Multan | Punjab |
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Bost | Bost | Makran |
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Khotan | Khotan | Khotan |
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Location of the Kunlun Goddess, the highest mountain of the Kunlun Range. Khotan is also the main source of the nephrite jade used in ancient China. |
Balkh | Balkh (shared with Takht-i-Sangin) | Khorasan |
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Site of the earliest known Fire Temple. |
Lhasa | Lhasa | Ü |
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Capital of the Tibetian Empire, which introduced Buddhism to Tibet. |
Purang | Purang | Guge |
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Birthplace of Sudhara, one of the Buddha's past lives |
Awkar | Awkar | Ghana |
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Capital of the Wagadu Empire and seat of the Bida cult |
Jenne | Jenne | Jenne |
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Niani | Niani | Mali |
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Capital of the Mali Empire |
Kukiya | Kukiya | Songhay |
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Wadan | Wadan | Anbiya |
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Daura | Daura | Hausaland |
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Ancient center of Hausa feasts |
Garumele | Garumele | Kanem |
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Igbo | Igbo | Igbo-Benue |
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The Igbo were an ethnic and cultural group established just North of the Niger delta |
El-Fasher | El-Fasher | Darfur |
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Wandala | Wandala | Sao |
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Kisi | Kisi | Mali |
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Sherbro | Sherbro | Guinea |
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Kayor | Kayor | Takrur |
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Kasa | Kasa | Kaabu |
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Bono | Bono | Akan |
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Kumasi | Kumasi | Akan |
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Center for the Ashanti people |
Ife | Ife | Yorubaland |
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A central city in Yoruba religion and culture, said to have been founded by the supreme god Olodumare and where the divine king Odudduwa established a legendary dynasty |
Nikki | Nikki | Borgu |
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Aswan | Aswan | Egypt |
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City home to many temples, monuments and relics of Ancient Egypt and the location of quarries that supplied building materials for constructions all over Egypt, inclding the Pyramids of Giza |
Wadi el-Milk | Wadi el-milk | Nubia |
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A dried up river and former tributary of the Nile |
Naqis | Naqis | Blemmiya |
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Sennar | Sennar | Nubia |
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Danakil | Danakil | Adal |
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Kaffa | Kaffa | Damot |
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Harar | Harar | Adal |
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Makhir | Makhir | Adal |
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Mogadishu | Mogadishu | Ajuraan |
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Capital of the Ajuran Sultanate and an important city overall |
Gilgit | Gilgit | Kashmir |
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Suzhou | Suzhou | Xia |
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Also known as Jiquan, it was an important city in medieval China due to its centrality in trade and its position on the Great Wall |
Unused holy sites[edit | edit source]
There are currently two holy sites that exist in the game files but are unused:
Name | Location | De Jure Kingdom | Effects | Faiths | Notes |
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Grand Church Under Construction | Barcelona | Aragon |
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Inactive at game start, and impossible to activate. |
Sparta | Laconia | Hellas |
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Was formerly a Hellenic holy site until Patch 1.4 replaced it with Mount Olympus |
Holy site ID[edit | edit source]
Each holy site has an internal ID uses for referencing within the game files. As a general rule, to get a holy site's ID from its in-game name:
- Remove all apostrophes (
'
) - Turn all upper case letters into lower case (
A...Z->a...z
) - Remove any diacritics from letters, including accents (
á->a
) and umlauts/diaereses (ü->u
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Any holy site IDs that do not fit the pattern above are included in the table below:
Holy site | Internal ID |
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Canterbury | kent |
Dwin | suenik |
Koloneia | colonea |
Mount Gerizim | gerizim |
Lumbini | kusinagara |
Nok Kundi | nok_kundi |
Takht-e Soleyman | takht-e_soleyman |
Karakorum | kara_khorum |
Tavan Bogd | tavan_bogd |
El-Fasher | el_fasher |
Wadi el-Milk | wadi_el_milk |
Grand Church Under Construction (unused) | segrada_familia |