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guberniia

guberniia is the alternative form of guberniya.

Meaning of guberniya

Noun

guberniya (plural guberniyas or gubernii)

  1. (historical) A major administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire; a governorate or province.
    • Milyukov’s density figure for the southeastern portion of Peter’s realm, referred to in his text as “the Kazan’ and Astrakhan’ gubernii” of that time, appears to be erroneous. It corresponds to the enumerated number of males in these two old gubernii, but the Nizhegorod Guberniya had been formed...1946, Frank Lorimer, “Appendix I: Notes on Estimation of the Growth and Distribution of Russian Population, 1724-1897”, in The Population of the Soviet Union: History and Prospects (Economic...
    Synonyms:
    gubernium

Forms of guberniia

pluralguberniias
pluralgubernii

Questions about guberniia

What is guberniia the alternative form of?
Guberniia is the alternative form of guberniya.

Words near guberniia in the dictionary

  1. gubernators
  2. gubernatrix
  3. gubernia
  4. gubernias
  5. gubernii
  6. guberniia
  7. guberniias
  8. gubernium
  9. guberniums
  10. guberniya
  11. guberniyas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: guberniia (page history and authors); guberniya (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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