Sentence examples for historical provinces from inspiring English sources

It was formed in 1833 from parts of the historical provinces of Valencia and Murcia.

Yet by maintaining the country's historical provinces and estates, after their subjugation, he preserved the principle of federalism in Austria.

Pointing to the examples of Tirol and Galicia, he attempted in 1817 18 to encourage the German states to introduce constitutions resurrecting the historical provinces and to set up their own diets instead of a central parliament.

"China proper," as it has been called, consists of 18 historical provinces bounded by the Plateau of Tibet on the west, the Gobi to the north, and Myanmar (Burma, Laoss, and Vietnam to the southwest, and it is primarily painting as it developed in China proper that will be treated here.

There are many regional varieties of the standard language that are specific to geographical areas of varying size (regions, historical provinces, cities, towns, etc).

Each of the factions controls a number of historical provinces, which on the map contain a castle and, if located by the sea, a port as well.

Alentejo, region and historical province of south-central Portugal.

The area was for a time part of the historical province of Malwa.

Champagne-Ardenne, région of France encompassing the northern départements of Haute-Marne, Aube, Marne, and Ardennes and roughly coextensive with the historical province of Champagne.

The historical province of Touraine was bounded northeast by Orléanais, southeast by Berry, southwest by Poitou, west by Anjou, and north by Maine.

Malwa, Sanskrit Malava, historical province and physiographic region of west-central India, comprising a large portion of western and central Madhya Pradesh state and parts of southeastern Rajasthan and northern Maharashtra states.