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Meanings of province of the netherlands in English

Russian
провинция нидерландов
Portuguese
subdivisões dos países baixos
Spanish
provincia de los paises bajos
Catalan
província dels països baixos

First-level administrative division in the Netherlands.

        провинция нидерландов
        Usage of province of the netherlands in English
        1
        In 1621, the truce between the Catholic and Protestant provinces of the Netherlands collapsed.
        The new yorker
        2
        He was the son of a clergyman in Friesland, one of the northern provinces of the Netherlands.
        Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam
        3
        Out from this northern region, and into all the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands, the custom spread.
        Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks
        4
        He was to make no special contracts or treaties with any cities or provinces of the Netherlands.
        The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 28: 1578, part II
        5
        The ten southern provinces of the Netherlands, mainly Roman Catholic in population, soon effected a reconciliation with Philip and returned to their allegiance.
        Early European History
        6
        The seventeen provinces of the Netherlands occupied the flat, low country along the North Sea-theHolland, Belgium, and northern France of the present day.
        Early European History
        7
        The cities, in common with all the provinces of the Netherlands, may hold diets as often ten and at such places as they choose.
        The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 02: Introduction II