United Provinces
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- (historical) A historic region in India, now the state of Uttar Pradesh.
- A province of British India from 1937 to 1947.
- A province of the Dominion of India from 1947 to 1950.
- (historical) A republic that existed from the formal creation of a confederacy in 1581 by several Dutch provinces (which earlier seceded from Spanish rule) until the Batavian Revolution in 1795; the predecessor state of the modern Netherlands.
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