| EYALET | Formerly, a province of the Ottoman Empire (6) |
| TURKEY | Country once the centre of the Ottoman Empire (6) |
| VIZIER | High official of the Ottoman Empire (6) |
| RHAETIA | A province of the Roman Empire in central Europe, including the Tyrol, etc (7) |
| DACIA | Ancient region of SE Europe roughly corresponding to modern-day Romania, annexed by Trajan c. 106 AD as a province of the Roman Empire (5) |
| TURIN | Capital city of a province of the same name in Piedmont, Italy (5) |
| TABUK | Capital city of a province of the same name in NW Saudi Arabia |
| CHOSEN | Selected from Korea when a province of Japan (6) |
| FRIESLAND | A province of the northern Netherlands (9) |
| JUDAEA | Jesus' biblical province of the Roman Empire (6) |
| TAIWAN | I want a province of China |
| ULSTER | A province of Ireland |
| RAETIA | Province of the Roman Empire containing parts of modern-day Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy |
| DEWITT | Jan, chief minister of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1653-72 (2,4) |
| QUEZON | Province of the Philippines named after their second president |
| GALLIPOLI | Peninsula of NW Turkey between the Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea, scene of an attempted invasion of the Ottoman Empire by Allied forces during World War I 1915 (9) |
| SICKMAN | The ___ of Europe, 19th century description of the Ottoman Empire (4,3) |
| MEHMEDVI | The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire (6,2) |
| SULEIMAN | ___ the Magnificent, also known as ' the lawgiver', 16th-century sultan of the Ottoman empire (8) |
| RUMELIA | Turkish name, used from the 15th century onwards, for the southern Balkan regions of the Ottoman Empire |
