province

province
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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  • PROVINCE — s. f. Étendue de pays qui fait partie d un État, et qui comprend plusieurs villes, bourgs, villages, etc., pour l ordinaire sous un même gouvernement. La France était divisée en provinces. La province de Guienne, de Normandie, etc. Les provinces… …   Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • PROVINCE — n. f. étendue de pays qui fait partie d’un état et qui comprend plusieurs villes, bourgs, villages, etc., sous un même gouvernement. La France était divisée en provinces. La province de Guyenne, de Normandie, etc. Les provinces d’un royaume. Ce… …   Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • Province — A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division. Roman provincesThe word is attested in English since c.1330, deriving from Old French province (13th c.), which comes from the Roman word provincia , which referred to… …   Wikipedia

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