Mudiriyah (, plural ''Mudiriyat''), meaning "directorate" (from مدير ''mudir'', meaning "director"), is an administrative subdivision also known in English as mudirate,Nachtigal, Gustav (1971) ''Sahara and Sudan: Wadai and Darfur'' (Volume 4 of ''Sahara and Sudan'') Hurst, London
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and often translated as "province".Amery, Harold François Saphir (1905) ''English-Arabic vocabulary for the use of officials in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan'' Intelligence Department, Egyptian Ministry of War, Al-Mokattam Printing Office, Cairo
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Johnson, Amy J. (2004) ''Reconstructing Rural Egypt: Ahmed Hussein and the history of Egyptian development'' Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York
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It was used in

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

and in

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ( ar, السودان الإنجليزي المصري ') was a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt in the Sudans region of northern Africa between 1899 and 1956, corresponding mostly to the territory of present-day ...

. 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 ...

.Salmoni, Barak A.; Loidolt, Bryce and Wells, Madeleine (2010) ''Regime and periphery in Northern Yemen: the Huthi phenomenon'' (Rand Corporation monograph series, MG-962-DIA) Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California
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The mudiriya were subdivided into markaz, or districts. In modern Egypt, these subdivisions were replaced by

governorates A governorate is an administrative division of a state. It is headed by a governor. As English-speaking nations tend to call regions administered by governors either State (administrative division), states or province, provinces, the term ''govern ...

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muhafazat A ' ( ; ) is a first-level administrative division of many Arab countries, and a second-level administrative division in Saudi Arabia. The term is usually translated to "governorate", and occasionally to "province". It comes from the Arabic roo ...

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