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Rhine Province

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noun

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


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The governor: 70-year-old Dr. Hans Fuchs, a Catholic who had been a pre-Nazi Oberpr�dsident of the Rhine Province.

From Time Magazine Archive

BACHARACH, a town of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine Province, romantically situated on the left bank of the Rhine, 30 m. above Coblenz on the railway to Mainz.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

The government got to be terribly afraid of Karl after that trial, and when revolutionary outbreaks occurred all through the Rhine Province, the following May, they suppressed the paper and expelled Karl from Prussia.

From The Marx He Knew by Spargo, John

The three-class arrangement originated in the Rhine Province where, by the local government code of 1845, it was put in operation in the elections of the municipalities.

From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin

The acquisition of the fertile Rhine Province by Prussia brought that vigorous State up to the bounds of Lorraine and made her the natural protectress of Germany against France.

From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by Rose, John Holland