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A province is an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman provincia, which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outside Italy. The term province has since been adopted by many countries.
Name Language of origin Word(s) in original language Meaning and notes Alberta Latin (ultimately from Proto-Germanic): Feminine Latinized form of Albert, ultimately from the Proto-Germanic *Aþalaberhtaz (compound of "noble" + "bright/famous"), after Princess Louisa Caroline Alberta [2] [3]
Map of the provinces of France in 1789. They were abolished the following year. Under the Ancien Régime, the Kingdom of France was subdivided in multiple different ways (judicial, military, ecclesiastical, etc.) into several administrative units, until the National Constituent Assembly adopted a more uniform division into departments (départements) and districts in late 1789.
Roman province, or provincia, administrative unit in the Roman empire; Ecclesiastical province, large jurisdiction of religious government; Regular province, jurisdiction within a religious order or congregation; Province (Gaelic games), a body consisting of several counties; Prowincja, a division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
There are four provinces of Ireland: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster. The Irish word for this territorial division, cúige , meaning "fifth part", suggests that there were once five, and at times Meath has been considered to be the fifth province.
Early Spanish accounts rendered the toponym as Donblon [6] in Spanish orthography, which is probably based on the native word lomlom, a term with cognates across many Philippine languages meaning "dark," or "shady," [95] perhaps in reference to the once-thick forests of, or the clouds that constantly form over, the island that now bears the ...
Canadian pressure laws, Acts, rules & regulations are enforced by provincial and territorial safety authorities. Unlike the United States where licensed professional engineers may stamp pressure equipment and pressure system/plant drawings in the non-nuclear sectors for construction, in Canada in general a professional engineer who is not employed by a safety authority does not have that same ...
Before 1910, immigrants to Canada were referred to as landed immigrant (French: immigrant reçu) for a person who has been admitted to Canada as a non-Canadian citizen.The Immigration Act 1910 introduced the term of "permanent residence," and in 2002 the terminology was officially changed in with the passage of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.