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01. The old Roman [province] of Lusitania is now called Portugal.
02. The [provincial] government has announced additional cuts to the education budget for next year.
03. Lots of tourists visit the [province] of Prince Edward Island to see the place where the novel "Anne of Green Gables" was situated.
04. A large number of people living in the [province] of Quebec would like to separate from Canada, and form their own country.
05. When Canada first became a country, it had only 4 [provinces].
06. Education is a responsibility of the [provincial] government.
07. The Premier has called a [provincial] election for the 12th of October.
08. Pierre Elliot Trudeau once said that Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all [provinces] feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
09. England was once a [province] of Rome.
10. Although "Holland" is a popular name for the Netherlands, North Holland and South Holland are actually two [provinces] in the Netherlands.
11. Canada is divided into 10 [provinces] and 3 territories.
12. Cleopatra was the last of the Ptolemies to rule Egypt, and when she committed suicide in 30 B.C., Rome annexed Egypt as a [province].
13. Chang Hsien-chung, a Chinese bandit, is credited with having killed 40 million people between 1643 and 1648 when he completely wiped out the population of Szechwan [province].
14. Eritrea, once a [province] of Ethiopia, declared its independence in 1993.
15. In 1953, a huge storm resulted in the flooding of the entire [province] of Zeeland in Holland, drowning 1,800 people, and completely destroying 130 towns.
16. In February of 1556, the world's worst earthquake, in China's Shaanxi, Shansi and Henan [provinces], killed an estimated 830,000 people.
17. Britain was divided into two Roman [provinces] around 200 A.D.

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