12 sentences with 'provinces'
Example sentences and phrases with the word provinces and other words derived from it.
• « The Romans united their provinces with the Latin language, which is the ancestor of all the major languages spoken in southern Europe today (French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, etc.), Roman law, which is the ancestor of most of the forms of law still used in Europe today, and the Roman form of government. »
• « This system would continue throughout the rest of the Republican and Imperial periods of Roman history, with governors exercising enormous power and influence in their respective provinces. »
• « However, most Roman subjects were just that: subjects, not citizens. In the provinces they were subject to the goodwill of the Roman governor, who might well seek opportunities to extract provincial wealth for his own benefit. »
• « Combined with his actual tribunate and his direct rule over the provinces in which most of the Roman army was garrisoned at the time, Augustus' practical control over the Roman state was unchecked. »
• « A soldier recruited in the provinces had to learn Latin, at least enough to receive orders and respond to them. »
• « Sassanid centralisation was based on the (much older) Achaemenid tradition. All rulers were members of the Sassanid family line, and governors of important provinces were also related to the extended family. »
• « Diocletian also divided the Empire into smaller provinces to make administration easier for governors. These provinces were grouped into larger units called dioceses overseen by an official called a "vicar". »
• « The bishops of the major cities, usually the imperial capitals of their respective provinces, came to be called archbishops. »
• « In the provinces, entire regions revolted when royal servants showed up and attempted to destroy the icons. »
• « They created new borders and provinces to better suit their administration and to ensure that tax revenues flowed back to the capital, Damascus, with the additional idiosyncratic factor of having to pay a continuing salary to all Arab soldiers, even after these soldiers had retired. »