United Provinces, former state, India

United Provinces, former state, N India, now almost coextensive with the modern state of Uttar Pradesh. The United Provinces embraced the plain of the Ganges, the heartland of India. This region was the scene of the ancient Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Invasions, battles, and the rise of great kingdoms occurred there. Many Hindu pilgrims flock to the holy cities along the Ganges, notably Allahabad Allahabad (ăl'əhəbăd`, –bäd`), city (1991 pop. 844,546), Uttar Pradesh state, N central India.
..... Click the link for more information. and Varanasi Varanasi (vərän`əsē), formerly Benares
..... Click the link for more information. . The east, as the scene of Buddha's life, remains sacred to Buddhism. Though the region was overwhelmingly Hindu in population, it was under Muslim rule from the 12th to the 18th cent. Great Britain first acquired territory there in 1764. The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was formed in 1877 by merging the presidency of Agra and the kingdom of Oudh Oudh (oud), historic region of N central India, now part of the state of Uttar Pradesh.
..... Click the link for more information. . The provincial area was occupied by rebels in the Indian Mutiny Indian Mutiny, 1857–58, revolt that began with Indian soldiers in the Bengal army of the British East India Company but developed into a widespread uprising against British rule in India. It is also known as the Sepoy Rebellion, sepoys being the native soldiers.
..... Click the link for more information. . After the partition of India in 1947, many Muslims migrated from the United Provinces to Pakistan. In 1950 the new state of Uttar Pradesh was formed.

United Provinces, former name of the Netherlands

United Provinces: see Netherlands Netherlands (nĕth`ərləndz), Du.
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The united provinces of the Low Countries, in their government, excel; for where there is an equality, the consultations are more indifferent, and the payments and tributes, more cheerful.

The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context

, whose moral influence was felt by the whole of Europe, and the pressure of whose material power Holland had been made to feel in that marvellous campaign on the Rhine, which, in the space of three months, had laid the power of the United Provinces prostrate.

The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

d'Almeda and I," said Colbert, "that a conflict with the United Provinces would mean a maritime war.

The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

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