Sentence examples for present province from inspiring English sources

Under the leadership of Danfu, they settled in the valley of the Wei River in the present province of Shaanxi.

Of noble origin, the Meng family settled in the state of Zou, a minor state in the present province of Shantung.

Most of the present province of Liaoning fell within the confines of the earliest Great Wall of China, built during the reign of Shihuangdi, the first Qin emperor (221 210 bce), and hence formed part of China from early times.

For a long time the Qieyun dictionary was assumed to represent the language of the capital of the Sui dynasty, Chang'an (in the present province of Shaanxi), but research has demonstrated that its major component was the language of the present-day Nanjing area with a certain attempt at compromise with other speech habits.

He later added: "We will defend the present provinces we control.

Sarcee, also spelled Sarsi self-name Tsuu T'ina, North American Plains Indians of Athabaskan linguistic stock who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries near the upper Saskatchewan and Athabaska rivers in the present provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Can.

Under French rule from 1794 to 1814, it belonged to the Ourthe département (the present Liège province).

The conflicts took place in what was then generally known as Finnmark (including the present Norwegian province of Finnmark and Russia's Kola Peninsula).

Other white wares made elsewhere during the period include those of Cizhou and a variety covered with a white slip over a grayish body from Julu county (both in present Hebei province).

Daniel, Nevsky's son and the progenitor of all the later Rurikid princes of Moscow, had a long and successful reign (1276 1303), but at his death the principality still embraced little more than the territory of the present Moscow province (an area of 140 miles [225 km] in length and width).

Vedar presence in the present Eastern province has been noted during the Kandyan Kingdom period (1469 to 1815).