Cannot liberate city states that were puppets of Venice

[The Tollan]

During a war against Venice I captured one city state that it had turned into a puppet. I found that the liberate option did not appear so I turned it into a puppet state. I then demanded another of Venice's puppets, Genoa, as part of the peace treaty and again the liberate option did not appear, so this city also became a puppet.

There seems to be no way to liberate these two cities. I checked the city screens and tested annexation (then reload). The cities are still in a state of civil unrest though.

Is this a bug or did something else go wrong? Having them as puppets is not too big of an issue, but I am playing as Ethiopia so this may count against the UA bonus.

 

[JSMCAG]

Nope - working as intended... The same goes for Austria marrying city-states - they are no longer city-states, and can no longer be liberated. Instead, they are identical to any other Austrian (or Venetian) founded city (if Venice could found cities).

 

[The Tollan]

That explains it then. Thanks for the information.

 

[BShaftoe]

As someone stated in another thread, CS's, for the most part, willingly joined Austria and Venice, so it makes sense that they cannot be liberated.