Mudiriyah

A mudiriyah (Arabic: مديرية, romanized: mudīriyya, lit. 'directorate'; plural: مديريات, romanized: mudīriyyāt), also known in English as mudirate^[1] and often translated as "province",^[2][3] is an administrative subdivision formerly used in Egypt and in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan,^[1] and still in use in Yemen.^[4] The Egyptian mudiriyat were subdivided into marākiz, or districts.^[3] In modern Egypt, these subdivisions were replaced by governorates (muhafazat).