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Types of administrative division
- Roman dioceseThe year 296 marked a turning point when Emperor Diocletian began reshaping the Roman Empire. He multiplied the number of provinces from forty-eight to…
- State (polity)In 1933, the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States established four qualifications for a state: a permanent population, a defined…
- SubahThe word subah emerged from the Arabic and Persian languages before entering South Asian administrative vocabulary. It arrived with the Mughal Empire to…
- Capital cityThe word capital derives from the Latin word caput, meaning head. Poet Ovid used the phrase in the 1st century BC to describe Rome as the center of power.
- WilayahThe word wilayah comes from the Arabic root w-l-y, which means to govern. A governor known as a wali rules over that territory called a wala or wilaya.