Mudiriyah (, plural ''Mudiriyat''), meaning "directorate" (from مدير ''mudir'', meaning "director"), is an administrative subdivision also known in English as mudirate,
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and often translated as "province".
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It was used in
Egypt
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and in
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
The term was also used in
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
.
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The mudiriya were subdivided into
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, or districts.
In modern Egypt, these subdivisions were replaced by
governorates
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(''
muhafazat'').
Notes
See also
*
States of Sudan
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Former subdivisions of Egypt