Sentence examples for later provinces from inspiring English sources

The county became more or less coextensive with the later provinces of North and South Holland.

The capital city, Caesarodunum, which was built on the site of the eastern part of the present city of Tours, was made by Valentinian the metropolis of the 3rd Lyonnaise, which included roughly the later provinces of Touraine, Brittany, Maine, and Anjou.

Luís Alves de Lima e Silva was born on 25 August 1803 on a farm called São Paulo (today within the city of Duque de Caxias) located in Rio de Janeiro, then a captaincy (later province) of the Portuguese colony of Brazil.

Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão was born on 11 January 1801, in the freguesia (civil parish) of São Carlos do Jacuí, Minas Gerais, then a captaincy (later province) of the Portuguese colony of Brazil.

The town succeeded Barcelos in 1809 as capital of the Rio Negro captaincy general and in 1850 became the capital of Amazonas province (later state).

However, few captaincies (later called provinces) collected the requested information.

In 1998, when he was 42, Mr. Li was dispatched to Henan, a poor, tough-to-govern province in China's midsection, becoming the nation's youngest governor, and later the province's more powerful party secretary.

Later the province was the site of a decisive Battle of Pichincha in the Latin American wars of independence.

(A few decades later, the province was renamed Syria Palaestina, after the Jews' traditional enemies, the Philistines; this is the origin of the name Palestine).

A month later, the Province newspaper proclaimed that the paper bag rapist had been caught and named him for the first time.

Allan Blakeney, the health minister of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan who helped start North America's first tax-financed universal health care system in 1962, and was later the province's premier, died Saturday at his home in Saskatoon.