Province

The province is an administrative division used in several States, since the Roman Empire. The word province comes from the Latin provincia , which means overcome countries.

The Latin term provincia gave the Provence.

In France, the word province fell in disuse since the revolution. Since the word province was re-used in particular with the XXème century; with Paris, the expression in province means out of the Paris region . The expression thus gathers a whole of heterogeneous areas which it is complex to gather under the same term. One substitutes sometimes the expression to him in area , whereas l'" Island-of-France" is also a French area.

With the Netherlands, the provinces were regarded as almost independent States: to see Seventeen Provinces, republic of the United Provinces.

See also: Province (literature)

Countries divided into provinces

The countries divided into provinces are:

Old provinces

See too

  • List of the catholic ecclesiastical provinces
  • List of the ecclesiastical provinces Anglicans
  • Parisianisme

Nds-nl: Pervincie Simple: Province

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