Provinces of Japan (令制国, Ryōseikoku) were first-level administrative divisions of Japan from the 600s to 1868. Provinces were established in Japan in the...
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In many instances, these are contiguous with the ancient ritsuryō provinces of Japan. Each prefecture's chief executive is a directly elected governor...
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Philippines, provinces (Filipino: lalawigan or probinsiya) are one of its primary political and administrative divisions. There are 82 provinces at present...
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Hitachi Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
Domain, was a Japanese domain of the Edo period it was associated with Hitachi Province. In Meiji era the political maps of the provinces of Japan were reformed...
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North Korea Special cities of South Korea For comparison, see: Provinces of France Provinces of Ireland Provinces of Japan 1. Pronounced "Ho-suh," not...
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Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces (in Japanese 六十余州名所図会 Rokujūyoshū Meisho Zue) is a series of ukiyo-e prints by the Japanese artist Hiroshige (1797–1858)...
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Izu Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
(伊豆国, Izu-no kuni) was a province of Japan in the area of Shizuoka Prefecture. Izu bordered on Sagami and Suruga Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was...
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Kai Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today Yamanashi Prefecture. Kai bordered on Sagami, Suruga, Shinano and Musashi Provinces. Its abbreviated...
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The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden), and...
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Harima Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
Bizen, and Mimasaka Provinces. Its capital was Himeji. During the Edo period of Japanese history, the Akō Domain (fief) was part of Harima. The Forty-seven...
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Yamato Province (redirect from Yamato Province, Japan)
Province List of Provinces of Japan List of Han Yamato period Japanese battleship Yamato Yamato people (Japanese) Yamato-damashii - 'the Japanese spirit' Thirteen...
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Higo Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
in Ōhara-chō province of Mimasaka. During the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. Maps of Japan and Higo Province were...
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Owari Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
Geographic Dictionary of Japan. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha. OCLC 77691250 Media related to Owari Province at Wikimedia Commons Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903...
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Nagato Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
province of Japan. It was at the extreme western end of Honshū, in the area that is today Yamaguchi Prefecture. Nagato bordered on Iwami and Suō Provinces. Although...
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Suruga Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
(駿州). Suruga was one of the original provinces of Japan established in the Nara period under the Taihō Code. The original capital of the province was located...
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Shinano Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
province of Japan that is now Nagano Prefecture. Shinano bordered on Echigo, Etchū, Hida, Kai, Kōzuke, Mikawa, Mino, Musashi, Suruga, and Tōtōmi Provinces. The...
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Etchū Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
a province of Japan in the area that is today Toyama Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Japan. Etchū bordered on Noto and Kaga Provinces to the west...
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Iga Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
province of Japan located in what is today part of western Mie Prefecture. Its abbreviated name was Ishū (伊州). Iga is classified as one of the provinces of the...
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Shimazu clan (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
Shimazu clan (Japanese: 島津氏, Hepburn: Shimazu-shi) were the daimyō of the Satsuma han, which spread over Satsuma, Ōsumi and Hyūga provinces in Japan. The Shimazu...
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Satsuma Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
Satsuma-no-Kuni) was an old province of Japan that is now the western half of Kagoshima Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū. Its abbreviation was Sasshū...
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Settsu Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
Settsu no kuni) was a province of Japan, which today comprises the southeastern part of Hyōgo Prefecture and the northern part of Osaka Prefecture. It was also...
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Sagami Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
was a province of Japan located in what is today the central and western Kanagawa Prefecture. Sagami Province bordered the provinces of Izu, Musashi, and...
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Musashi Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
Musashi-no-kuni) was a province of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo Metropolis, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture. It was sometimes...
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Ōmi Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
Province (近江国, Ōmi no kuni) was a province of Japan, which today comprises Shiga Prefecture. It was one of the provinces that made up the Tōsandō circuit. Its...
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Iwashiro Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
dissolved Iwase Province Sanriku List of Provinces of Japan Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Iwashiro" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 410, p. 410, at Google...
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Kansai region (redirect from Kinki, Japan)
their roots during the Asuka period. When the old provinces of Japan were established, several provinces in the area around the then-capital Yamato Province...
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Iwami Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
Iwami school of carving Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Iwami" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 408, p. 408, at Google Books. Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures"...
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Shimōsa Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
Dictionary of Japan. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha. OCLC 77691250 Media related to Shimosa Province at Wikimedia Commons Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903...
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Rikuzen Province (category Former provinces of Japan)
District (登米郡) - dissolved Sanriku List of Provinces of Japan Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Rikuzen" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 790, p. 790, at Google...
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