No.
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The Final Fantasy series has a long history of names, places, and themes carrying over from game to game without actually being the same as previous versions. XIV's Cid isn't a chain-smoking lancer, or the head of a mercenary school, or a king turned into a bug for adultery, he just shares a name.
They talked about it during one of the live letters leading up to 4.5. The original plan was for it to be Balthier, but they opted to use Fran instead because we're getting viera in ShB. We're almost certainly not done with Ivalice given how many loose plot threads were introduced during Orbonne and in the second Encyclopedia Eorzea, so we'll likely see others eventually.
I thought the world of ivalice is a part of XIV's now? since 1.0 art was through tactics/12
Those and the primals, various weapons and armor, chocobos since two, moogles, Wol and Wods, Elemental crystals that are important to the story somehow. Let's also not forget putting teens or in their early 20s in charge of saving the world and other things like militaries or whole countries.
They've never said anywhere that we're going to Dalmasca for ShB. The Alliance and Doma agreed to lend their support if the princess Fran serves can unite the rebels under one banner, but until Ashe(or whoever's using her name, since she should be in her 50s at this point if she survived like in XII) can do so, they're out of the story. The closest we might get is the Skatay Range, assuming that's where Rak'tika is.
About the Hildibrand parts the stuff with the old people is the second half where people say it got better. That and it's where Cyr starts to just roll with the wackyness that is Hildibrand. Hildi's ability to make people believe his disguises is probably the best thing about each story and maybe the see you soon end parts.