Wilayah

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title: Wilayah
text: A wilayah (Arabic: وَلاية, romanized: walāya or wilāya, plural wilāyat, wilayat; Urdu and Persian: ولایت, romanized: velâyat; is an administrative division, usually translated as "state", "province" or occasionally as "governorate". The word comes from the Arabic root "w-l-y", "to govern": a wāli—"governor"—governs a wālāya, "that which is governed". Under the Caliphate, the term referred to any constituent near-sovereign state.
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description: Administrative division approximating a state or province
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilayah
date created: 2004-09-03T06:52:19Z
date modified: 2024-09-04T02:35:54Z
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