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A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.

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An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China.

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(Roman history) An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor.

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An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses.

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An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order.

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(in plural, chiefly with definite article) The parts of a country outside its capital city.

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An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.

I belong to the province of Smolensk.

The chief town of the province, 's Hertogenbosch, may be cited as an interesting historical example.

Throughout the whole province "Uncle" had the reputation of being the most honorable and disinterested of cranks.

Each province has also its own judicial system.

The province has an area of 6062 sq.

As to suffragan bishops in the province of Canterbury, see Read v.

The islands of the Canaries, Madeira and the Azores belong to the Mediterranean province, and offer some peculiarities of great interest.

The Malayan province comprising the Malay islands, besides the Malay peninsula, and the very remarkable Philippines, possess an extraordinary number of peculiar and interesting genera.

The town-hall contains the municipal library, collec tions of tapestry, portraits and antiquities, and valuable archives relating to the town and province.

Gradually the province was extended north of Massilia, up the Rhone, while the Greek town itself became weak and dependent on Rome.

The old district of Assiniboia, the result of the efforts in colonization by the earl of Selkirk in 1811 and succeeding years, was the nucleus of the province.

On his return to Rome (S4) he was accused of extortion in his province.

The guia tax on the transport of stock from one province to another, which has been declared unconstitutional in the courts, is still enforced, and is a vexatious tax upon the stock-raiser, while the consumption, or octroi, tax in Buenos Aires and other cities is a heavy burden upon small producers.

The legislative power is vested in a congress of two chambers - the senate, composed of 30 members (two from each province and two from the capital), elected by the provincial legislatures and by a special body of electors in the capital for a term of nine years; and the chamber of deputies, of 120 members (1906), elected for four years by direct vote of the people, one deputy for every 33,000 inhabitants.

Sicily is the chief centre of cultivationthe area occupied by lemon and orange orchards in the province of Palermo alone having increased from ff525 acres in 1854 to 54,340 in 1874.

The universities are maintained by the state and by their own ancient resources; while the higher special schools are maintained conjointly by the state, the province, the commune and (sometimes) the local chamber of commerce.

In York there are two courts, one called the consistory for the diocese, the other called the chancery for the province.

Till 1881 it was the seat of a pasha in the vilayet of Jannina; it is now the capital of the Greek province and the seat of a nomarch.

The people of the interior are mostly of the old Iranian stock, and there are also a few nomads of the Turkish Baharlu tribe which came to Persia in the lath century when the province was subdued by a Turkish chief.

After the division of the Roman empire, the lands inhabited by the Albanian race became provinces of the Byzantine empire; northern Albania from Scutari to Berat formed the thema or province of Dyrrachium (Durazzo, Albanian Dourtz), southern Albania and Epirus the thema of Nikopolis.

In 1865 the synod of that province, in an urgent letter to the archbishop of Canterbury (Dr Longley), represented the unsettlement of members of the Canadian Church caused by recent legal decisions of the Privy Council, and their alarm lest the revived action of Convocation "should leave us governed by canons different from those in force in England and Ireland, and thus cause us to drift into the status of an independent branch of the Catholic Church."

Manitoba formerly belonged to the Hudson's Bay Company, and after the transfer of its territory to Canada was admitted in 1870 as the fifth province of the Dominion.

The Saskatchewan, though not in the province, empties into Lake Winnipeg less than half a degree from the northern boundary.

About 4000 French Canadians, who had emigrated from Quebec to the United States, have also made the province their home, as well as Icelanders now numbering 20,000.

The Manitoba Act constituting the province was passed by the Canadian parliament in 1870.

Bahrain deposed the vassal king of the Persian part of Armenia and made it a province.

A fertile province, in the eastern and southern portions its surface consists chiefly of plains almost entirely treeless.

Trees become more numerous also northward in the province, until in the region north of the North Saskatchewan river forests are again met with.

North of this region the surface of the province is of most fertile soil, the ordinary rainfall sufficing for agriculture.

The appearance of the prairie section of the province is that of undulating meadows, with rounded sloping ridges covered with shorter grasses, which serve for the support of great herds of cattle and horses.

With the exception of the southern section, the province of Alberta may be said to be well watered.

It is also further influenced by the different altitudes above the sea of the several parts of the province.

Dividing the province into three equal parts of 250 m.

The trees in the wooded sections of the province are seen in clumps and belts on the hillsides.

These are largely worked at Lethbridge in southern Alberta and Edmonton in the centre of the province.

Many other parts of the province have pits for private use.

For transportation the North Saskatchewan is to some extent depended on for carrying freight by steamboats, but railways are widespread in the province.

The capital of the province is Edmonton, and here reside the lieutenant-governor and cabinet.

At length in 1905 the district of Alberta was enlarged and the present province formed by the Dominion parliament.

A clause was inserted to the effect that a certain sum should be annually set aside from fines to aid each province in emancipating slaves by purchase.

Accordingly during 1858 a committee was created in nearly every province in which serfdom existed.

In parts where European authority remained weak, as in the hinterland of the Portuguese province of Angola and the adjacent regions of Central Africa, native potentates continued to raid their neighbours, and from this region many labourers were (up to 1910) forcibly taken to work on the cocoa plantation in St Thomas.

This resulted in the dismissal of Suliman Niazi and the appointment of Hicks as commander-in-chief of an expeditionary force to Kordofan with orders to crush the mandi, who in January 1883 had captured El Obeid, the capital of that province.

With the exception of Benevento, surrounded by the Neapolitan province of Principato Ulteriore, and the small state of Pontecorvo, enclosed within the Terra di Lavoro, the States of the Church formed a compact territory, bounded on the N.W.

The fourth province, Batanaea, which still is remembered in the name `Ard el-Bathaniyeh, lies east of the Leja and the Hauran plain, and includes the Jebel ed-Druz or Hauran mountain.

The province and city of Puerto Principe are officially known as Camaguey, their original Indian name, which has practically supplanted the Spanish name in local usage.

Santiago (now Oriente) province is high and mountainous.

The oriental mountain region includes the province of Oriente and a portion of Camaguey.

The Cauto river in Oriente province is exceptional; it is 250 m.

Fossiliferous Cretaceous limestones containing Rudistes have been found in several parts of the island (Santiago de los Banos, Santa Clara province, &c.).