Gubernia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gubernia is a noun meaning plural of gubernium.
Meaning
plural of gubernium.
More Meanings
- Alternative form of guberniya.
Example Sentences
In the gubernii, governors served as the highest administrative authority and together with their executive organs supervised the work of provincial-level departments.
Even before the administrative reform (1775), new gubernii were being created as territories were added or consolidated on the borderlands. Activity was prodigious in 1764. Siberia’s sole, huge gubernia at Tobolsk was divided to create a gubernia at Irkutsk.
Soviet Russian troops entered Kharkiv on 7 (20) December 1917; on 12 December they also attacked from the north across Chernihiv gubernia. By mid-February 1918, the gubernii of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Poltava and Katerynoslav were under complete Bolshevik control; […]
Word Forms
- gubernias
- gubernii
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include guberniya, gubernias, uyezd, raion, voivodeship, gmina.
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