A province or administrative region in the Russian Empire; an alternative spelling of gubernia.
From Russian guberniya, a direct transliteration of the Russian administrative term. This spelling preserves the Russian pronunciation while gubernia is the Latinized version used in English historical texts.
Guberniya is why Russian history texts sometimes look like they're written in different languages—early historians Latinized Russian terms (gubernia), while modern ones preserve the original Russian (guberniya).
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