What is "provincial capital"

Usage examples of "provincial capital".

At the end of July 1759, Fort Niagara on New Yorks western frontier was captured by Sir William Johnson and his Iroquois allies, and the French bastions at Crown Point and Ticonderoga finally fell to Lord Amherst, which opened the way northward to the French provincial capital of Quebec.

His little army was just pulling out of Hail at sunset as the vanguard of Hesmucet's much bigger army entered the provincial capital.

It was her dream that after they had passed their state examinations the following year they would marry and go out as gymnasium teachers to some provincial capital in the Urals.

And since most of the bodies were already in the provincial capital of Solinga, there wasn't the usual endless difficulty with fodder and supplies.

It was the provincial capital, sprawling and splendid, the biggest city he had come upon since -- since?

It was the provincial capital, sprawling and splendid, the biggest city he had come upon since—.

Compared to Videssos the city or Rome, it was a sleepy provincial capital, but to men who lived their lives in tents it was strange and exotic beyond belief.

Two or three times a year the agent came out from the provincial capital of Mazadone, riding a circuit through the swamplands, and his first stop in the Vale was always Aximaan Threysz's plantation.

During World War I, with German armies occupying Bucharest, the royal family besieged in the provincial capital of Jassy, and the local population blaming their foreign-born rulers for the fiasco, Carol deserted his military unit—.

PHILADELPHIA, the provincial capital of Pennsylvania on the western bank of the Delaware River, was a true eighteenth-century metropolis, the largest, wealthiest city in British America, and the most beautiful.

The provincial capital Bactra is a midway point not only between Persia and India but also between the northern marauding tribes and those ancient civilizations that look upon the southern seas.

Even at night, and even among offal-strewn alleys, its passing was carefully noted, as were all such comings and goings in this dull, provincial capital, whether for the sake of gossip, or political intrigue, or out of simple fear.