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A mudiriyah (; ), also known in English as mudirateNachtigal, 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
page 281
is an administrative subdivision formerly used in
Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...
and in
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ( ') was a condominium (international law), condominium of the United Kingdom and Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt between 1899 and 1956, corresponding mostly to the territory of present-day South Sudan and Sudan. Legally, sovereig ...
, and still in use in
Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...
.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
pages 81-82
The Egyptian mudiriyat were subdivided into '' marākiz'', or districts. In modern Egypt, these subdivisions were replaced by
governorates A governorate or governate is an administrative division headed by a governor. As English-speaking nations tend to call regions administered by governors either states or provinces, the term ''governorate'' is typically used to calque divisions o ...
(''
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 as "governorate", and occasionally as "province". It comes from the Arabic root , , (ve ...
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States of Sudan Below is a list of the 18 states of the Sudan (Arabic names are in parentheses). Prior to 9 July 2011, the Republic of the Sudan was composed of 25 states. The ten southern states now form part of the independent country of South Sudan. Two ad ...
{{Geo-term-stub Former subdivisions of Egypt