Bracketed civ name above cities?

[Sobisonator]

A short question here: while playing C2C I noticed that when a city is conquered by barbarians, the name of the original civ remains above the city name, on the same level as the unrest / revolt turn timer, in brackets.

Can somebody tell me what this means?

Thanks.

 

[strategyonly]

Screenie please.

btw Welcome to CFC and for trying this Great Mod, C2C

 

[Hale_9204]

I think it's somehow related to the mechanics of native cultures in C2C

example: you play as France, you can build virtually all eutopean cultures (if you have the necessary resources; when you conquer a barbarian city with the bracketed name "Khmer", it is the same thing if you conquer a city that was part of the khmer empire, so you can build the asian related cultures

PS it's been a while since I last experienced this thing, so I may be wrong =)

 

[civfan613]

Something about cities retaining initial civ's culture.
The name shows the original owner.
It's a game option, not sure which.

 

[Acularius]

You must have the 'Assimilation' option on.
Whereas it won't make sense as an European culture conquering another European culture... however some Cultures (Great Wonder buildings) are only accessible through assimilation.
Prime example.
Byzantine (Technology required: Theology) [Great Wonder]
-Requires Culture (European)
-Requires Culture (Middle Eastern)
-Requires Iron in the city vicinity.

So by this example, you need to, as an European/Middle Eastern culture need to conquer the other of the former in order to make the Byzantine culture.
Which allows access to the Cataphract unit, Basil II (Achievement buildings - Hero Unit), Constantine XI Palaiologus (Hero Unit).