Meanings of extensive province in English

Was it found necessary to civilize a wild and extensive province?

This is their most extensive province, and that in which they succeed the best.

One or two firms engaged in a single branch of commerce do the whole business of an extensive province.

The number of captives was incredible, as the victorious barbarians ranged without opposition through the extensive province of Pontus.

This is an extensive province, about eight days journey to the north-west of Moscow, which was formerly a republic.

The condition of the extensive province of Gaul was more promising, its savage tribes having begun to adopt the arts of civilization.

But Ellison maintained that the richest, the truest, and most natural, if not altogether the most extensive province, had been unaccountably neglected.

It was a bold, and, at one period, promised to be a successful effort to annex that extensive province to the United Colonies.

Gaul, which was the first of Caesar's most brilliant conquests, and which took him ten years to accomplish, was a still more extensive province.

But they are scattered higher up through the extensive provinces of Housa, subjected to the Fullans.

Yet a few hundred men were enough to preserve order in the largest cities, and a few thousand in the most extensive provinces.