Tuesday, 12 August 2014

Historic provinces

Aged, medieval and feudal[edit]

Caliphate and resulting sultanates: see Emirate

Khanate can likewise mean a territory and in addition an autonomous state, as either might be going by a Khan

Byzantine Empire: see exarchate, thema

Pharaonic Egypt: see nome (Egypt)

Frankish (Carolingian) 're-established' Holy Roman Empire: see gau and area

In the Habsburg regions, the conventional areas are mostly communicated in the Länder of nineteenth century Austria-Hungary.

Mughal Empire: subah

The areas of the Ottoman Empire had different sorts of governors (for the most part a pasha), yet generally styled vali, consequently the dominating term vilayet, by and large subdivided (frequently in beyliks or sanjaks), once in a while gathered under a representative general (styled beylerbey).

Achaemenid Persia (and most likely before in Media, again after triumph and further augmentation by Alexander the Great, and in the bigger Hellenistic successor states: see satrapy

The Roman Empire was isolated into regions (provinciae).

In the Tartar Khanate of Kazan: the five daruğa ('heading')

Frontier and Early Modern[edit]

Spanish realm, at a few echelons:

viceroyalty above

intendencia

British states:

Region of Canada (1840-1867)

Regions of India

Regions of New Zealand (1841-1876)

Regions of Nigeria

Region of South Australia (now an Australian state)

The previous regions of Brazil

The previous regions of France

The previous regions of Ireland

The previous regions of Japan

The regions of Prussia, a previous German kingdom/republic

The previous regions of Sweden

The previous Republic of the Seven United Provinces (The Netherlands)

The previous United Provinces of Central America

The previous United Provinces of the Río de la Pl

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