Province (disambiguation)
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A province
Province
A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...

is a form of subnational entity.

Province may also refer to:
  • a Roman province
    Roman province
    In Ancient Rome, a province was the basic, and, until the Tetrarchy , largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside of Italy...

    , or provincia, an administrative unit in the Roman empire
  • Ecclesiastical province
    Ecclesiastical Province
    An ecclesiastical province is a large jurisdiction of religious government, so named by analogy with a secular province, existing in certain hierarchical Christian churches, especially in the Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches and in the Anglican Communion...

    :
    • a geographical division of the Roman Catholic Church above diocese and archdiocese
    • the highest geographical subdivision of a religious order
  • Geologic province
    Geologic province
    A geologic or geomorphic province is a spatial entity with common geologic or geomorphic attributes. A province may include a single dominant structural element such as a basin or a fold belt, or a number of contiguous related elements...

  • Physiographic province
    Physiographic province
    A physiographic province is a geographic region with a specific geomorphology and often specific subsurface rock type or structural elements.A continent may be subdivided into various physiographic provinces, each having a specific character, relief, and environment which contributes to its...

  • "Province
    Province (song)
    "Province" is the second single from TV on the Radio's album Return to Cookie Mountain.-Track listing :A1. Province *guitar, synthesizer, sampler, bass: David Andrew Sitek...

    ", a song by TV on the Radio from their 2006 album Return to Cookie Mountain
    Return to Cookie Mountain
    Return to Cookie Mountain is the second studio album by American art rock group TV on the Radio. It was released July 6, 2006 worldwide by 4AD, and issued in the U.S. and Canada on September 12, 2006 by Interscope Records and Touch and Go Recordings. However, an unmastered version of the album...

  • The Vancouver Province, commonly referred to as The Province, a newspaper published in Vancouver
  • Prowincja
    Prowincja
    A prowincja , or Region, was the largest territorial subdivision in medieval and Renaissance-era Poland, and later in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...

    , a division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
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