Definitions

1. 1.countryside (part of a country that is remote from the capital and major cultural centres)
2. 2.backwater (backward place)
3. 3.province (subdivision of government usually one step below the national level)
4. 4.province (area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop)
5. 5.province (area under the jurisdiction of a provincial superior)
6. 6.province (administrative region of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that was controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire)