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United Provinces

 

(United Provinces of Agra and Oudh), from 1902 to 1950, a province of India composed of the historic regions of Agra and Oudh. In 1950 the United Provinces became the state of Uttar Pradesh in the Republic of India.


United Provinces

 

(Republic of the United Provinces), seven Netherlands provinces (Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Geld- erland, Friesland, Groningen, and Overijssel) that, as a result of the Netherlands bourgeois revolution of the 16th century, freed themselves from Spanish rule and established the first bourgeois republic in the world. The leading province of Holland gave its name to the Republic of Holland and to the country. The United Provinces existed until 1795. (SeeNETHERLANDS, THE: Historical survey.)

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Portrait conventions from the turn of the century show figures in the usual three-quarter pose, which was thought to capture the most individualized aspects of the human face, with the sober garb associated with the Calvinist United Provinces. Attributes such as books, gloves, and swords attest to the piety, wealth, and status of the sitter, while inscriptions typically identify the sitter's age and the year in which the portrait was executed.
The United Provinces, though Protestant, tended to be latitudinarian enough for Catholic Scots, she explains, and were alive with continental intellectual ferment during the period.
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Group A should include the Hindu-majority provinces of Madras, Bombay, United Provinces, Bihar, Central Provinces and Orissa.
Ending both the 30 Years' War and the 80 Years' War, the treaties recognised the independence of The United Provinces of the Netherlands from Spain; they also recognised the Swiss Confederacy's independence from the influence of the Holy Roman Empire and the House of Habsburg.
Liotard's first visit to London, where he profitted from friendships made in Constantinople, followed and also his first to the United Provinces, where, at The Hague, he bought a large collection of 17th-century paintings, signalling the beginning of his career as a collector and a dealer.
Britain claimed sovereignty over these islands in 1833, while the United Provinces of the River Plate (later Argentina) had a settlement presence there several years earlier.
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