This new unified state featured the provinces in their modern form , as non-autonomous subdivisions of the national state , and again numbering NUMBER@1 provinces , though not all the same as the 16th century ones .

This new unified state featured the provinces in their modern form . Today , they are non-autonomous subdivisions of the national state . There are again numbering NUMBER@1 provinces , though not all are the same as the 16th century ones .
