This is a provincial place, and that is its charm.
Today Istanbul is a provincial capital in a workaday republic.
But health care in Canada is a provincial responsibility, not a federal one.
The heroine is a provincial dreamer who seems to have spun her very identity from cast-off strips of celluloid.
"Staten Island is a provincial borough and I like it that way — quiet, family-oriented but close enough to everything".
Barcelona inspires them because it is a provincial city that has become cooler than the Spanish capital, Madrid.
Vienna itself has been returned to the natives, and it is a provincial place, a kind of imperial ghost town.
It is a provincial capital and a farming market centre on the Nan River and the Bangkok Chiang Mai railway.
It is my own fault, I suppose, for consuming too many media, but how else is a provincial to keep up?
Hangzhou is a provincial capital, officials noted, so it does not have the experience of dealing with visiting V.I.P.s that Beijing or even Shanghai has.
Far from the influence of Ankara or Istanbul, Trabzon is a provincial capital with a strong identity and gritty underdog spirit.
