Beginning in October 2004 and continuing into 2005, Uige Province was the centre of an outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever, a disease closely related to Ebola.

During the Middle Ages, the Uige Province was the heartland of the Kongo Kingdom.

Uige Province is located in northeastern Angola.

Its market centre of Uige town, the district capital, prospered and was designated a city in 1956.

Coffee production ( in Uige, Luanda, Cuanza Norte and Cuanza Sul provinces of Angola ) was started by the Portuguese in 1830s and soon became a cash crop ; the popular crop grown was robusta coffee ( in its 2000 and odd plantations in Angola, owned mostly by the Portuguese ).

There is also another populated place in Angola called Caconda, in the province of Huambo, and a river, in the province of Uige.

The province is bordered by the provinces of Zaire to the North, Uige to the Northeast, Cuanza Norte to the East, and Cuanza Sul to the South.

During the Portuguese rule, the province, and in particular the Uige City, became the haven of rebel activity ( its inaccessible wilderness providing the cover for such activity ) of the rebels received active support from the leader of its neighbouring country of Congo, Mobutu Sese Seko.

Uige has a population of approximately 500, 000.

* AI752. 3 Repose of Mac Uige, abbot of Les Mór.

Administered within the Rhine Province, by 1880 the population was 80, 000.

He was born at Cologno al Serio, in what is now the Province of Bergamo.

He was a Latin philosopher and theologian from the Africa Province of the Roman Empire and is generally considered as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all times.

In 116 AD, under Trajan, it was taken over by Rome as the Roman Province of Assyria.

Between 150 BC and 226 AD Assyria changed hands between the Parthians and Romans ( Roman Province of Assyria ) until coming under the rule of Sassanid Persia in 226 AD – 651 AD, where it was known as Asuristan.

Omari came from Asir Province, a poor region in southwestern Saudi Arabia that borders Yemen, and graduated with honours from high school, attained a degree from the Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, was married, and had a daughter.

In the 19th century there was a province in Afghanistan named Turkestan Province until abolished by Abdur Rahman, and was centred on Mazari Sharif and included territory in the modern provinces of Balkh, Jowzjan, Faryab and Sar-e Pol.

In 1890 the district of Qataghan and Badakhshan was divided from Afghan Turkestan and made into the Qataghan-Badakhshan Province.

Amakusa produces a little coal and fine kaolin, which was largely used in former times by the potters of Hirado and Satsuma Province.

His father was a barber from Castellammare di Stabia, a town about south of Naples, and his mother was a seamstress and the daughter of Angelo Raiola from Angri, a town in the Province of Salerno.

Nami, much like Abdulaziz al-Omari, Wail al-Shehri, Waleed al-Shehri, and Mohand al-Shehri was born in the ' Asir Province in Saudi Arabia.

An under sea water supply tunnel with a length of, named the Bosphorus Water Tunnel, was constructed in 2012 to transfer water from the Melen Creek in Düzce Province ( to the east of the Bosphorus strait, in northwestern Anatolia ) to the European side of Istanbul, from a distance of.

* Province of Brabant, Belgium, which in 1995 was split up into two provinces and an autonomous region:

He was born in Buca, Izmir Province, in 1939 and is married with one child.

His birthplace was in Zou, Lu state ( near present-day Qufu, Shandong Province ).

This union consisted of the present day nations of Guatemala ( which included the former state of Los Altos ), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica ( which included a region which is now part of Panama, and the Guanacaste Province which was once part of Nicaragua ), and Soconusco, a portion of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

Meinhof was born in Barzwitz near Rügenwalde in the Province of Pomerania.

In 2004, it announced that it was moving its head office from Casablanca to a location in Province of Nouaceur, close to Mohammed V International Airport.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

Rexa's successor, Cableonda, was dominant throughout the 1990s, and expanded to Chiriqui Province.

This was in addition to the appropriate honorary dignity, which was due by virtue of being the Senior Bishop of the main Metropolis of the Province, Alexandria, which also the Capital and the main Port of the Province.

* 1692 – Salem witch trials: in Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.

* Province of Buffalo, one of several proposals for what eventually became Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada

However, by 1704 the Province of Pennsylvania had grown so large that their representatives wanted to make decisions without the assent of the Lower Counties and the two groups of representatives began meeting on their own, one at Philadelphia, and the other at New Castle.

* 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts

The archipelago administratively belongs to Chile's Valparaíso Region ( which also includes Easter Island ), and more specifically forms one of the nine communes ( comunas ) of the Valparaíso Province named Juan Fernández.

The city of Kabul is one of the 15 districts of Kabul Province, which is further divided into 18 city districts or sectors.

Mount Matutum is a protected area and is considered as one of the major landmarks of South Cotabato Province.

For one example, the Hatay Province was transferred to Turkey from Syria after the majority-Turkish population complained of mistreatment.

Papua New Guinea's Western Province averages one person per square kilometer ( 3 per sq.

He was born in Bologna to Pompeo Ludovisi, Count of Samoggia, now Savigno in the Province of Bologna, and of Camilla Bianchini, being one of seven children.

Since 1999, Toruń has been a seat of the self-government of the Kujawy-Pomerania Province and, as such, is one of its two capitals ( together with Bydgoszcz ).

The western state was politically dominant and composed of three Governor's provinces ( North-West Frontier, West-Punjab and Sindh Province ), one Chief Commissioner's province ( Baluchistan Province ), the Baluchistan States Union, several other princely states ( notably Bahawalpur, Chitral, Dir, Hunza, Khairpur and Swat ), the Federal Capital Territory ( around Karachi ) and the tribal areas.

* March 10 – The Province of Batangas is formally founded as one of the Philippines ' first encomiendas.

; Province of Maine: Settled in 1622 ( An earlier attempt to settle the Popham Colony in Sagadahoc, Maine ( near present day Phippsburg and Popham Beach State Park ) in 1607 was abandoned after only one year ).

* Birth of the monk Gyōgi, one of the founders of Japanese Buddhism, in the Otori district of Kawachi Province.

Fars Province has the highest number of Shahrestans, with 23, while Semnān and South Khorasan have only 4 Shahrestans each ; Qom uniquely has one, being coextensive with its namesake county.

Bloemfontein (, ; Dutch for " fountain of flowers " – lit., " blooms ") is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa ; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals – the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital.

Siderno, also known as the " pearl " of the " Jasmine Riviera ", is one of the most well-equipped tourist resorts on the Ionian coast of the Province of Reggio Calabria, with wide, sandy beaches, clear sea and a magnificently-coloured seabed.

Westchester County was an original county of the Province of New York, one of twelve created by an act of the New York General Assembly in 1683.

Examples include Wittenberg, the old capital of the Saxon Elector State during the Holy Roman Empire, and seat of the National University made famous by Martin Luther and Melanchthon ( which was already done away with in 1817 by means of a merger with the Prussian University of Halle ), and Torgau, birthplace and place of residence of the Elector Frederick the Wise, which was incorporated into one of the new hybrids created by Prussia under the name Province of Saxony.

Province of Georgia was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution by signing the 1776 Declaration of Independence.

In 1683, the Province of New York established its first twelve counties, with Dutchess County being one of them.