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United Provinces

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the United Provinces

  1. (historical) A historical region in India, now the state of Uttar Pradesh.
    1. A province of British India from 1937 to 1947.
    2. A province of the Dominion of India from 1947 to 1950.
  2. (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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