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Mahilyow Voblast Information (417 words) |
 | Mahilyow Voblast (Province) or Mogilev Oblast (Belarusian: Магілёўская во́бласьць; Mahilyowskaya Voblasc; Russian: Могилёвская о́бласть; Mogilevskaya Oblast; Łacinka: Mahiloŭ Vobłaść) is a province (voblast) of Belarus with its administrative center being Mogilev (Mahilyow). |
| Of the major nationalities living in the Mahilyow Voblast, 1,044,000 inhabitants are Belarusians, 132,000 are Russians, 3,500 are Jews, 2,800 are Poles, 2,110 are Ukrainians, 1,700 are Tatars, 1,300 are Lithuanians, 1,100 are Armenians, and 1,070 are Gypsies. |
| The twenty-one raions (districts) of the Mahilyow Voblast are: |
| Bambooweb: Belarus (816 words) |
| Similar examples of "colored" names in the Slavic ethnos are: White Serbs and White Croats; and in China: Red, Black and Green Miao. |
| At the higher administrative level, Belarus is divided into 6 voblasts and one municipality (horad, i.e., "city"); the latter one is the capital of Belarus. |
| Voblasts are further subdivided into rayons (usually translated as districts). |
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