Meaning of gubernium | Babel Free

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Synonym of guberniya.

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“In the western guberniums, such as Wilna, Podolia, Minsk, &c., &c., 2,889 landed proprietors were condemned, some to death, some to perpetual banishment or hard labour, and in every instance with total loss of all property, real and personal.”

“Beauty, grace, and accomplishments are, as I said before, a sine qua non, but as Basil is already the colonel of a crack cavalry corps, and has other military honours promised him in the near future, as also by reason that his father is Governor-General of the gubernium of Odessa, and will leave his son abundant wealth as well as his title of count, I think I have a right to expect something more in his future wife than mere accomplishments and good looks.”

““Your Excellency will give me leave also to advert to the expulsion of my brethren from the city of Kiew, where they are at present not allowed to remain even a single night; from the city of Nicolaiew, in the Gubernium of Kherson; the city of Swart-opol, in the Gubernium of Ekat-erinaslow; and all the villages situated in the Gubernium of Whitebsk, Moghilew, Tchornigow, and Voltawa, as well as all the other villages of those Guberniums situated within fifty wersts along the frontiers.”

“In the whole Russian Empire (exclusive of the kingdom of Poland) the Jews are prohibited from permanently residing or settling anywhere, except in the following fifteen gubernia:⁠—Bessarabia, Vilna, Vitebsk, Volhynia, Grodno, Ekaterinoslav, Kovno, Minsk, Mohilev, Podolia, Poltava, Taurida (except Sebastopol), Cherson (except Nicolaiev), and Tshernigov, also in the gubernium of Kiev, exclusive of the city of Kiev. These gubernia are, therefore, called the Pale of permanent Jewish Settlement.”

“Althan’s commission first broached in 1755 the idea of a semibureaucratic gubernium for Croatia, resembling the later gubernia of the Bohemian and Austrian Lands.”

“Between the 1750s and 1770s, central institutions were supplemented by the new regional offices, the Gubernia. Each Gubernium was divided into smaller administrative units—circles and districts (beneath circles).”

“Gubernia (Bohemian Gubernium and Moravian-Silesian Gubernium) gained considerable superiority over the diets, although each of these institutions were directed by the same official, who served concurrently at the Estates and Land levels. The President of the Bohemian Gubernium presided over the Bohemian Diet as the Supreme Burgrave of Prague, while the President of the Moravian-Silesian Gubernium was also the Land Commissioner and thus also the head of the Moravian Diet. Gubernia were directly subordinate to the central administration in Vienna.”

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