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Faction-specific General and City Names

Features
-Changes names of cities and generals, depending on the faction that owns them and the scenario's time period.
-All names are reconstructed using known peculiarities of the historic dialects/languages of the factions at that time. (Beware that most of the game's settings take place before the well-known "Classical" versions of Greek and Latin were around, and earlier Latin/Greek may be a little less instantly recognizable)
-Works on vanilla Italy (including DLC and mods taking place on the same map), as well as the mods: Iberia, Macedon, Latium, and the Rhodes and Dalmatian islands map of the Skirmish Maps mod.
-A total of over 20,500 unique city&general names.

Full Combatibility List
-AFAIK the only mod that might prevent this mod from working is the "Pyrrhos Aiakides" mod by Jorellaf, that does some string manipulation of its own that might conflict with this mod. Disable or uninstall that mod when using this one.
-Supported mods are Macedon, Iberia, Latium, Skirmish Maps, Hegemony 500, Megafactions, Alternate Start Dates, More Playable Invaders and Hernici. This mod should work on all their scenarios, as well as Vanilla and the Eagle King DLC.
-Other mods aren't supported, but will not necessarily prevent this mod from working on the scenarios it supports. (I can't guarantee 100%, but basic utility/gameplay mods run just fine)

Note
-It may take up to about an in-game month for names to update. (E.g. up to a month to show the correct names after the start of a scenario, after a city changes hands, after a general is spawned, etc)


The various names are, when possible, historically accurate names that we know that people used for the place.
In most cases though, no such record exists.
The rest of the names were reconstructed based on known features/peculiarities of the phonology and alphabet of those languages, using an attested name in another language as a base.



DEVELOPMENT EXPLANATION/LINGUISTIC DETAILS & STUFF
In-game factions have been sorted into over 100 "rulesets", depending also on the scenario played.
517 city names, 3 companion brigade names and 928 general names (about half are names from mods), then had their variants "reconstructed" for each of these rulesets, but only if those generals/cities could appear in the same scenario as a faction with that ruleset (so for example I didn't generate Macedonian names for Iberian cities, as the faction Macedon will never appear on the Iberia map).

The result: 100k reconstructed variant names, 20k+ of which were unique (as different rulesets can often still generate the same result on the same name). I then generated a .str file and .lua tables from them, that I copied into the mod which has also been reprogrammed from scratch to just pick up the files I generated without needing me to manually move stuff around for 20k+ names (the horror!).

Table of which factions use which language rules/namesets in which scenarios (OUTDATED):
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/workshop/filedetails/discussion/973595448/3428846977648455067/

Write-up of how names were reconstructed/rules used for each language. Recommended to read only if you have an interest in ancient languages, or just want to gloss over it to get a general idea of what went into creating the mod, or fancy getting a headache (MISSING SOME NEWER INFO):
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/workshop/filedetails/discussion/973595448/1456202946277754707/