muhafazah
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A '''' is a first-level administrative division of many Arab countries, and a second-level administrative division in Saudi Arabia. The term is usually translated as "governorate", and occasionally as "province".
It comes from the Arabic root , , (verb: , ), which means to "keep" and "guard".
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