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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

The province has an area of 6062 sq. m., and had a population in 1905 of 2,070,052, being the fourth most densely populated province in Prussia, after Berlin, the Rhine Province and Westphalia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

Unless I'm very much mistaken, any one of them could tell you just as much about the country in Alsace and Lorraine, and all through the Rhine Province, as the Germans could of this section.

From The Boy Scouts on the Trail by Durston, George

Every inducement was offered by the Carmelite superiors in the Lower Rhine Province to cultivate a taste for study.

From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by Stone, J. M. (Jean Mary)

GEVELSBERG, a town of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine Province, 6 m.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various

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