A '''mudiriyah''' ({{Langx|ar|مديرية|mudīriyya|directorate}}; {{langx|ar|label=plural|مديريات|mudīriyyāt}}), also known in English as '''mudirate'''<ref name="Nachtigal">Nachtigal, Gustav (1971) ''Sahara and Sudan: Wadai and Darfur'' (Volume 4 of ''Sahara and Sudan'') Hurst, London, [https://books.google.com/books?id=M2yHuXD30osC&pg=PA413 page 413], {{OCLC|27836995}}</ref> and often translated as "province",<ref>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, [https://books.google.com/books?id=SgEVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA435 page 435], {{OCLC|7582223}}</ref><ref name="Johnson">Johnson, Amy J. (2004) ''Reconstructing Rural Egypt: Ahmed Hussein and the history of Egyptian development'' Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York, [https://books.google.com/books?id=OAwqSOi09PkC&pg=PA281 page 281], {{ISBN|0-8156-3014-X}}</ref> is an administrative subdivision formerly used in Egypt and in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan,<ref name="Nachtigal" /> and still in use in Yemen.<ref name="Salmoni">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, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Sj81Eaxz-2kC&pg=PA81 pages 81-82], {{ISBN|978-0-8330-4933-9}}</ref> The Egyptian mudiriyat were subdivided into ''marākiz'', or districts.<ref name="Johnson" /> In modern Egypt, these subdivisions were replaced by governorates (''muhafazat'').
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==See also== * States of Sudan
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Category:Former subdivisions of Egypt