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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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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

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

Rolf, whose fame is comparatively young, has not yet, like his illustrious rivals of the Rhine Province, been the object of minute enquiries and copious and innumerable reports.

From The Unknown Guest by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Not long after this, Marx and Engels returned to Germany, and were instrumental in fomenting a revolution in the Rhine Province in 1849.

From The Red Conspiracy by Mereto, Joseph J.

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

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