gubernia

plural gubernias · plural gubernii

1. alternativeAlternative form of guberniya.

   In the gubernii, governors served as the highest administrative authority and together with their executive organs supervised the work of provincial-level departments.

   1995, Robert E[dward] Blobaum, “Russian State, Polish Society”, in Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904–1907, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, published 2016, →ISBN, pages 4–6

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   Soviet Russian troops entered Kharkiv on 7 (20) December 1917; on 12 December they also attacked from the north across Chernihiv gubernia. By mid-February 1918, the gubernii of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Poltava and Katerynoslav were under complete Bolshevik control; […]

   1982, Vsevolod Holubnychy, “The 1917 Agrarian Revolution in Ukraine”, in Iwan S. Koropeckyj, editor, Soviet Regional Economics: Selected Works of Vsevolod Holubnychy (The Canadian Library in Ukrainian Studies), Edmonton, Alta.: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, →ISBN, section I (Studies on Ukrainian Social and Political History), page 53

   Even before the administrative reform (1775), new gubernii were being created as territories were added or consolidated on the borderlands. Activity was prodigious in 1764. Siberia’s sole, huge gubernia at Tobolsk was divided to create a gubernia at Irkutsk.

   2017, Nancy Shields Kollmann, “Army and Administration”, in The Russian Empire 1450–1801, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part III (The Century of Empire: Russia in the Eighteenth Century), page 307

1. pluralplural of gubernium