Preposition: of

• Zambezia: Cholera raging in Zambezia Cholera continues to rage in the central province of Zambezia, particularly in the provincial capital, Quelimane.

Converse of object

• conquer: Edmund conquered the province, which in 946 he ceded to Malcolm I, King of Scots who agreed to become his vassal.

• populate: The capital of a thinly populated province of the same name, the city of Murcia has a population of 358,000 people.

• neighbor: In the neighboring province of Inhambane only one case has been reported.

• invade: In his words, he began when 'the city papers did not invade much the province of local journals.

• administer: A two-chamber council would administer the province and represent the interests of the 250 tribal groups who live there.

• divide: Lord Carey says that bitterness, hostility, misunderstanding and strife now separate provinces from one another and divide individual provinces.

Adjective modifier

• northern: I traveled three hours over dirt roads to visit a Clinic in the bush in the Northern province.

• Canadian: Canadian provinces, United Kingdom counties ) or individual cities.

• eastern: Emile Durkheim was born at Epinal in the eastern French province of Lorraine on April 15, 1858.

• western: Five US marines have been killed in " enemy action " in Iraq's western province of Al-Anbar, the military announced Thursday.

• Indonesian: A plebiscite held in 1969 resulted in the area becoming an Indonesian province.

Modifies a noun

• border: Two apartments in renovated 17C farm setting near Cortona, Arezzo and Assisi in rural Tuscany near the Siena province border.

Noun used with modifier

• Zambezia: Zambezia province In Zambezia, there were no reports of any deaths or injuries.

• Maputo: In Gaza the figure reaches about 10 per cent, and 7.7 per cent in Maputo province.

• prairie: It's prairie province where there's a saying: if your dog runs away, you can see him for three days!

• eleven: In the summer of 1971 I spent two months in Turkey: eleven provinces out of 65 were under martial law.

• oil: Almost all known oil provinces in the world seep.

• gas: In contrast the southern North Sea gas province has been charged almost entirely from the Carboniferous Coal Measures.