"The romans may have claimed
to possess a province, but these claim is as valid as that made by a man who
takes YOUR property at gunpoint. Would you acknowledge a robbers claim as
truth? Or would you recognise it as what it is : a temporary piece of deadly
folly based on the use of force."

That's precisely what I meant by "Roman province". It was something the Romans had control over, not something that was theirs by right. Just as Britain was once a "Roman province".