Talk:Governorate

Imperial Russia
Article read "it may also refer to the Governorates and Governor-Generalships of Imperial Russia," which was a circular definition. The translated Russian term has been added. -LlywelynII (talk) 06:11, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Imperial Spain
The Spanish Empire had a number of regions administered by a governor (gobernador) which were neither states nor provinces (eg, Rio de la Plata.) The Spanish word is gobernacio'n and the crosslink from that page on the Spanish wiki comes here. "Governation" and "government" (used at the article linked above) are both highly infelicitous, but I'm not certain what English-language scholars of the Spanish Empire refer to the regions as. -LlywelynII (talk) 06:11, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, this page links to gobernacio'n, so I suppose that's correct. Found category link on the Spanish wiki that I have linked to pending translation. Since I don't speak Spanish, I'll have to leave that up to y'all. -LlywelynII (talk) 06:55, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Do Not Merge
Do not merge!, would break arab subdivision series. guberniya is seperate as well.

I am also against a merge, as governorate is closer to the term in Ukrainian and Russian than muhafazah. Merging would create very weird references and correlations for those reading about Ukrainian or Russian geography or history that are not correct. If merging, I would suggest carefully going through all the linking pages and removing links that no longer make sense. -- mno 19:11, July 18, 2005 (UTC)


 * To add, at this point, this article seems like a disambiguous entry linking to the more relevant ones. In my opinion, this is a correct, and good way, to do it. Most articles will link to the correct and relevant entry from this page in the first place. -- mno 19:11, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Keep. In the process of disambiguating links referring to Arabic, I have run across this term several times. Most of these links refer to Arab countries. If someone were to research this, it might turn out that this governorate refers largely to Arab countries. DanMS 21:24, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Articles for Deletion debate
This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. AndrewRT 18:04, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Dutch Indies
The article could also use explanation of the "governorates" used by the Dutch East and West Indies Companies. Seems to have been the principal division of their territories. — LlywelynII  22:22, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Sources for article expansion
The Greek bits can be expanded with content from its section on Governor-general. That article should actually only focus on the office and people. This article is where most of the organizational bits should be moved to. — Llywelyn II   12:42, 10 March 2024 (UTC)