Rhine Province

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a former province in W Germany, mostly W of the Rhine: now divided between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine–Westphalia.

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Also called Rhineland. German Rheinland.

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The governor of Punjab province, a Muslim man, called publicly for leniency for her.
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In Afghanistan, there was a push to take back the southern province Helmand.
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The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.
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Around half the Baluch in the province are unemployed, a result, say rights groups, of longstanding marginalization by Tehran.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan|Umar Farooq|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Three kids play cricket among the crude gravestones in a cemetery that is the largest in the province.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley|Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
But the Mexicans were not the people to give up their best province so easily.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Here were the sources (in part) of the Po and of the Rhine, but I was rather in haste to bid the former good-bye.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
To travelers blessed with golden sunshine, the Rhine may wear a grander, nobler aspect, and to such I leave it.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Then affairs almost reached the point where the province was in hostile array, one side against another.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various