Sentence examples for historic provinces from inspiring English sources

Obliterating the political identity of France's historic provinces, the deputies redivided the nation's territory into 83 départements of roughly equal size.

In his Idea státu rakouského (1865; "Idea of the Austrian State"), Palacký propounded a federalism based not on nationalities but on the historic provinces of the Habsburg empire.

Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, Czech Českomoravská Vysočina, or Vrchovina, plateau (125 miles [200 km] long and 35 to 50 miles wide) forming the southeastern boundary of the Bohemian Massif, which separates the former historic provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, now in the Czech Republic.

It adjoins historic Province House, which is known as the birthplace of Canadian confederation.

Kirkcudbrightshire forms the eastern portion of the historic province of Galloway.

Donegal, Irish Dún na nGall ("Fort of the Foreigners"), most northerly county of Ireland, in the historic province of Ulster.

Nor was Irish joy confined to the countries surrounding Dublin that make up the historic province of Leinster.

Capital of the historic province of Berry, Bourges still serves as the centre for marketing sheep, cattle, wine, and cereals.

Monaghan, Irish Muineachán ("Place of Thickets"), one of the three counties of Ireland forming part of the historic province of Ulster that now projects northward into Northern Ireland.

The major part of the historic province of Anjou is contained within the département of Maine-et-Loire, in France's Pays de la Loire région.

It was formed in 1833 from part of the historic province of León and is bounded by the provinces of León to the north, Valladolid to the east, and Salamanca to the south; Portugal bounds it to the west.