Muhafazah

A muḥāfaẓah (Arabic: محافظة [muˈħaːfaðˤah]; pl. محافظات muḥāfaẓāt [muħaːfaˈðˤaːt]) is a first-level administrative division of many Arab countries, and a second-level administrative division in Saudi Arabia. The term is usually translated to "governorate", and occasionally to "province". It comes from the Arabic root ح ف ظ ḥ-f-ẓ, which means to "keep" and "guard". The head of a muḥāfaẓah is the muḥāfiẓ.

Muhafazat in Arab countries

The governorates of Tunisia are wilāyah in Arabic.


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gollark: I have no idea then. Unless you can move it overland on some kind of giant platform thing, or something like that.
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gollark: Move it where?
gollark: In my case the wiki thing runs on my server, and the data folder on that is backuped to my laptop and other "server".
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