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Gubernii (49)
12019-07-24T19:10:26-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f591glossary termplain2019-08-09T18:37:13-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Empress Catherine II determined the shape and structure of Russian provinces with her 1775 Statute on Provincial Administration (law number 14392). At that time there were 40 gubernii (Anglicized as guberniias; sing: guberniia); by the 1820s there were 49, the geography of which corresponds - some argue - to the geography of the core of the Russian Empire.
Generally speaking, when histories mention "provinces," they have gubernii in mind. At Imperiia, this is the only term we translate as "province" - we leave the rest in Russian transliteration.
12019-07-24T22:18:15-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Provinces governed according to the 1775 reform (36)1plain2019-08-09T18:33:34-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
