United Provinces
Proper noun
Meaning
(historical) A historical 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.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
Discontent in New Amsterdam led locals to dispatch Adriaen van der Donck back to the United Provinces to seek redress.
By 1621, the United Provinces had charted a new company, a trading monopoly in the Americas and West Africa : the Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie or WIC).
As the United Provinces found out about Jewitt's flag raising from a British newspaper article, how could they have sent what was a pirate ship?
The All India Muslim League made him a candidate in the 1946 election for a United Provinces assembly seat.
After the fourth war between the United Provinces and England (1780–1784), the company suffered increasing financial difficulties.
He also won complete design responsibility for the 1936–1937 United Provinces Exhibition of Industry and Agriculture.