I must say I really don't like the changes made to Apulia. Sure it may look more realistic if you zoom out, but its size has actually been reduced to unrealistic dimensions. It is now only 5-6 land tiles and can accomadate at best one crappy city.
To better understand how its size is out of scale with most of the map, think of Corfù:
2 tiles, more than 1 third Apulia. In reality, Apulia is 32 times bigger. Of course, we can't be precise on the game map... imprecisions of 2, 3 times the real dimensions are ok, but 10 times ? Ok Corfù might be an exception because of its strategical importance (not that 2 tiles instead of 1 might change its importance in the game...). But there are more examples:
Crete/Apulia 4/6 in the game, 4/9.5 in reality
Rhodes/Apulia 2/6 in the game, 2/27 in reality
Cyprus/Apulia 6/6 in the game, 6/12.5 in reality
Istria/Apulia 4/6 in the game, 4/19 in reality
Corsica/Apulia 4/6 in the game, 4/9 in reality
Calabria/Apulia 5/6 in the game, 5/6,5 in reality
Ireland/Apulia 29/6 in the game, 25/6 in reality
can't find anything that kept the same ratio ingame:reality with Apulia, not to mention a lower ratio... and I've been optimistic to consider it 6 tiles rather than 5 >_<
The closest one I found is Calabria, which incidentally I had noted as too thin previously in the thread.