English Explanatory Dictionary

United Provinces

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A historic region of India, now the state of Uttar Pradesh.
  2. A province of British India from 1937 to 1947.
  3. A province of the Dominion of India from 1947 to 1950.
  4. 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.

Word forms

United Provinces the United Provinces

Synonyms

Dutch Republic Republic of the Seven United Netherlands

Translations

Bengali: যুক্তপ্রদেশ Hindi: संयुक्त प्रांत Marathi: संयुक्त प्रांत Polish: Republika Zjednoczonych Prowincji Urdu: متحدہ صوبے
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