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A province is an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman provincia, ...
In Ukraine, an oblast (Ukrainian: область [ˈɔblɐsʲtʲ] ⓘ; in English called a province or region) refers to one of the country's 24 primary administrative units. Since Ukraine is a unitary state , the provinces (or regions) do not have much legal scope of competence other than that which is established in the Ukrainian Constitution ...
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
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]
The Persian word for province (velâyat) is still used in several similar forms in Central Asian countries: Provinces of Afghanistan (Pashto: ولايت, wilāyat, plural: ولايتونه, wilāyatuna), subdivided into districts (Pashto: ولسوالۍ, wuləswāləi or Persian: ولسوالی, wolaswālī)
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Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully ...
The region got its name in Roman times, when it was known as Provincia Romana, simply "the Roman province". This name eventually was shortened to Provincia (the province), [3] and as the language evolved from Latin to Provençal, so did the pronunciation and spelling.