Governorate (Russia)

A governorate, or a guberniya (Russian: губе́рния, IPA: [ɡʊˈbʲɛrnʲɪjə], also romanized gubernia, guberniia, gubernya; Ukrainian: губернія, romanized: huberniia), was a major and principal administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire. The term is usually translated as government, governorate, or province. A governorate was ruled by a governor (губернатор, gubernator), a word borrowed from Latin gubernator, in turn from Greek kybernetes. Sometimes the term guberniya was informally used to refer to the office of a governor.

Governorate (Russia)

A governorate, or a guberniya (Russian: губе́рния, IPA: [ɡʊˈbʲɛrnʲɪjə], also romanized gubernia, guberniia, gubernya; Ukrainian: губернія, romanized: huberniia), was a major and principal administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire. The term is usually translated as government, governorate, or province. A governorate was ruled by a governor (губернатор, gubernator), a word borrowed from Latin gubernator, in turn from Greek kybernetes. Sometimes the term guberniya was informally used to refer to the office of a governor.