Krai
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A krai or kray (Russian: край) was a type of geographical administrative division in the Russian Empire and in the Russian SFSR,[citation needed] and is one of the types of the federal subjects of modern Russia.
Etymologically, the word is related to the verb "кроить" (kroit'), "to cut".[1] Historically, krais comprised vast territories located along the periphery of the Russian state , since the word krai also means border or edge, i.e., a place of the cut-off. In English the term is often translated as "territory". As of 2015[update] the administrative usage of the term is mostly traditional, as some oblasts also fit this description and there is no difference in legal status between the krais and the oblasts.[2]
See also
- Kraj, an equivalent term used in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
- Krajina
- Kreis, an administrative unit in Germany
- Ukraine
- Marches (Mark, in German) compare to Denmark (literally - the borderland of Danes).
References
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- ↑ 12 декабря 1993 г «Конституция Российской Федерации. Статья 5.», в ред. Федерального конституционного закона №5-ФКЗ от 21 июля 2007 г. (December 12, 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation. Article 5., as amended by the Federal Constitutional Law #5-FKZ of July 21, 2007. ).
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