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Definition of Governorates
1. governorate [n] - See also: governorate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Governorates
Literary usage of Governorates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Egypt's Food Subsidy and Rationing System: A Description by Harold Alderman, Joachim Von Braun, Sakr Ahmed Sakr (1982)
"In some governorates membership includes representatives from the milling and
rice processing companies located within it as well as from the wholesale ..."
2. Wheat Policy Reform in Egypt: Adjustment of Local Markets and Options for by Mylène Kherallah (2001)
"... APPENDIX3 Administrative Divisions of Egypt (governorates) City Upper Egypt 1.
Cairo Middle Egypt 2. Alexandria 14. Giza 3. Port Said 15. Fayum 4. ..."
3. The Estimation of Recent Trends in Fertility and Mortality in Egypt by National Research Council Staff, Committee on Population and Demography, Panel on Egypt (1982)
"(2) The duration-based estimates of q(l) are exceeded by the reported IMR even
at the lower rates in 1946-47 in all five urban governorates, and in Behera ..."
4. Bureaucracy of Repression: The Iraqi Government in Its Own Words by Joost R. Hiltermann (1994)
"... by government fiat in 1974), which comprises the governorates of ... and Diyala
governorates. In the labyrinth of Iraqi intelligence agencies, ..."
5. The Egyptian Food Subsidy System: Structure, Performance, and Options for Reform by Akhter U. Ahmed (2001)
"Distribution of bakeries producing subsidized baladi bread, by governorates, 1997
137 F.5. Distribution of total quantity of subsidized wheat flour, ..."
6. Landmine Monitor Report 2000: Toward a Mine-Free World by International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, International Campaign to Ban Landmines (2000)
"As of February 2000, 1207 mine-affected communities in 274 districts in 18 of 19
governorates had been identified. Most of the minefields in Yemen are ..."
7. Landmine Monitor Report 2002: Toward a Mine-free World by International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Human Rights Watch (Organization). (2002)
"Since 1999 national mine action offices have been set up and staffed in Suleimaniya
and in Erbil governorates within the Ministry of Relations and ..."
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