Of the remaining unseen city-states carrying over from G&K or the ones that we haven't confirmed the type, none of them strike me as a good choice to switch to religious. I propose that there will be a new religious city-state. We just haven't seen it yet. There must be some African city that has a religious provenance.
Or they just keep it at an odd number.
Antananarivo could conceivably be a religious CS - it's not a particularly obvious fit, but then none are any other CS types, and modern Madagascar is both devoutly Catholic and very strongly influenced by indigenous spiritual beliefs (the latter not in the capital, but if Tana's in it's likely to represent an approximation of Madagascar as a whole).
Africa is home to several holy cities - the best option might be Ife.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ife
It is 99% certain that Antanarivo is a new city state. There is 0.99% possibility that it is on Indonesian city list. There is 0,01% change that it is on Zulu city list - it is always possible the defs just dont care anymore.
The Merina are ethnically Malay, but they aren't Indonesian by any stretch, any more than the Polynesians are - the island was colonised long before any recognisable Indonesian society emerged. Singapore and KL would be on the Indonesian list before Tana.
Besides which, even historical Indonesian cities such as Trowulan appear to be absent from the Indonesian city list.
So I'm guessing that it's not just a CS for the SFA scenario since Valletta is also on their city list.
There's no reason for Poland to be in the SFA scenario (particularly with Krakow or other European cities), or Tyre (in that screenshot as a CS), so that's plainly not a screenshot from the scenario.
And while I've agitated for a Merina civ in the past, neither Merina nor Madagascar fits the alphabet and in any case we know one of the remaining civs is European and have good reason to believe the other is North American.
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t shouldn't be too hard to deduce right? lets look at the in game religions and compare it to their respective holy cities. which religions don't have a corresponding in game holy city as a religious city state?
let me try to remember all the religions in game.
Protestantism
Catholicism
Eastern Orthodox
Shinto
Buddhism
Sikhism
Islam
Confucianism
Zoroastrianism
Hinduism
Nearly all of them (plus Tengriism, missing from your list). A number have holy cities in civ city lists (such as Mecca and Medina), but Jerusalem and Lhasa are the only holy cities for any of these religions that's a city-state (and Jerusalem is also a holy city for Judaism, also missing from your list). I'd like to see Kandy as a religious CS, and it is a Buddhist holy city (which Kathmandu isn't). Toledo (a city that I'd like as a CS, but was imagining as mercantile given the historical value of Toledo steel) was also a medieval religious centre.
EDIT: I forgot Wittenberg and Vatican City.
isn't it theorized that the Majapahit controlled Madagascar at one point?
If so, only by people who know nothing of Malagasy history (which in fairness is the vast majority) and who presumably based that "theory" on the Malay ethnicity of the Merina. The Merina are of Malay origin in the same way as the Polynesians; a later divergence based on their language, but also based on that language much earlier than the establishment of any Malay state. In fact, recent evidence suggests that Madagascar was first colonised earlier than the accepted date of 2,000 years ago, and it's accepted that the first colonists were from what's now Indonesia - African migration to the island came later.
The unification of Madagascar is actually fairly well-documented as it coincided European contact, and was a wholly indigenous development (at least initially - the British particularly endorsed and helped solidify Merina dominance over the island), having nothing to do with any Indonesian contact.
Does anybody know anything about Antananarivo, would it make sense for it to be Religious? Interesting implications for Florence and in turn the supposed Venice civ.
It's not seemed especially religious on any of my visits there, but as above Madagascar as a whole is. Tana's in the middle of Madagascar's high central plateau, so Maritime's out. It was, I understand, somewhat militarised during the communist era, but Militaristic makes very little sense. Madagascar has fascinating indigenous cultures, but has had no wider cultural relevance so it makes little sense as a Cultural CS. Mercantile might be an outside option (Madagascar's the world's primary source of natural vanilla), but given the country's economic nosedive during its communist era and its current status as one of the world's poorest countries, it would a pretty odd fit.