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Oblast
oblast
oblast
English
A map of Blagoevgrad oblast (province), Bulgaria
Noun
oblast (plural oblasts or oblasti)
- A region or province in Slavic or Slavic-influenced countries.
- 1979, Jerry Fincher Hough, How the Soviet Union Is Governed, page 483,
- The territorial subdivision below the level of the union republic — or at least below the level of the larger union republics — is that of the oblast, the krai, or the autonomous republic. In 1977 there were 120 oblasts, 6 krais, and 20 autonomous republics, and they corresponded roughly to the American state in size.
- 2002, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance, page 119,
- It is important to note, however, that the general pattern of Nizhnii Novgorod oblast at the top and Tiumen' and Yaroslavl' oblasts in the middle, with Saratov at the bottom, occurred too often across all indicators to assume that even those differences in means that were not significant at a .05 confidence level or better occurred merely by chance.
- 2010, Martha Brill Olcott, Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise, page 194,
- Almaty oblast (distinct from Almaty city) is the most rural of Kazakhstan's oblasts, at just 22.2 percent urban.
- 1979, Jerry Fincher Hough, How the Soviet Union Is Governed, page 483,
Translations
a region or province
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Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *obolstь.
Pronunciation
Noun
oblast f
- area (particular geographic region)
Declension
Declension of oblast
Derived terms
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *obolstь.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ôblaːst/
- Hyphenation: o‧blast
Noun
ȍblāst f (Cyrillic spelling о̏бла̄ст)
Declension
Declension of oblast
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *obolstь.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔˈbláːst/
- Tonal orthography: oblȃst
Noun
oblást f (genitive oblastí or oblásti, nominative plural oblastí or oblásti)
Declension
Declension of oblást (feminine, i-stem, mobile accent)