Their homeland which was once called Khorasan, was a prosperous and important province because it was the seat of many local rulers.

Unemployment in the south is 21.6 percent, compared with 12.4 percent nationwide and only 6 percent in the prosperous northern province of Lombardy.

The premiers of the most prosperous provinces have criticized a perceived drain on their finances.

In the 19th century, Ulster had the only large-scale industrialisation and became the most prosperous province on the island.

The first is the "elitist coalition" or Shanghai clique which is composed mainly of officials who have risen from the more prosperous provinces.

In 1892 Buddu was the most prosperous province in the kingdom.

In the democratic order that is supposed to follow, it would assure Nationalist control here in South Africa's most prosperous province.

Kano was the largest and most prosperous province of the empire.

As a consequence, it did not receive the same influx of black slaves during the 16th and 17th centuries as the more prosperous provinces of Brazil.

Swedish invasion of Poland had catastrophic consequences for the hitherto prosperous province.