oblast

English - Turkish

Definition of oblast in English Turkish dictionary

bölge

"Oblast" is a loanword in English. It means region, area, zone, province, district.

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il

English - English

Definition of oblast in English English dictionary

A region or province

a province (or state) in the Russian federation

replaced guberniya

an administrative division of the Soviet Union

is a large-scale administrative and territorial unit established taking into account economic peculiarities of a given region Kyrgyzstan's territory is subdivided into seven oblasts: Chui, Issyk-Kul, Talas, Jalal-Abad, Osh, Batken, and Naryn Each oblast includes rayons and towns of oblast subordination

Related Terms

Adyghe Autonomous Oblast

Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union in the Russian SFSR established on August 24, 1922 and existing until July 3, 1991, when it was elevated to the status of a republic and renamed Republic of Adygea

Autonomous Oblast

Common misspelling of autonomous oblast used because the phrase is capitalized when found in specific placenames, such as the Jewish Autonomous Oblast or the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast

Chechen Autonomous Oblast

Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union in the Russian SFSR (1922-1936)

Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Oblast

Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union in the Russian SFSR established in January 1944

Cherkess Autonomous Oblast

Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union in the Russian SFSR established in 1943

Chuvash Autonomous Oblast

Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union in the Russian SFSR established in June 1920

Ingush Autonomous Oblast

Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union in the Russian SFSR established in July 1924

Jewish Autonomous Oblast

An Autonomous Oblast in the far East of Russia

Kurdistan Autonomous Oblast

Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union in the Azerbaijan SSR from 1923 to 1929

Oyrot Autonomous Oblast

Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union in the Russian SFSR established in 1922 and renamed to Gorno-Altai Autonomous Oblast in 1948

South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast

Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union in the Georgian SSR established in April 1922

autonomous oblast

One of the administrative divisions of former Soviet Union created for certain “smaller” nations and characterized by following features: they were given an autonomy within a union republic or, in the RSFSR, within a krai; had a status lower than an autonomous republic; had a different titulary nation from that of their union republic/krai. Abbreviated as AO

The autonomous oblast has the rights and bears the obligations of a kray and oblast. The legal status of the autonomous oblast is determined by federal law enacted by the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet in accordance with a representation of the autonomous oblast.

Hyphenation

ob·last

Turkish pronunciation

äbläst

Pronunciation

/ˈäblast/ /ˈɑːblæst/

Etymology

[ 'ä-"blast, 'o-, -bl&s ] (noun.) circa 1886. From a Slavic language, probably Russian область (óblast’, “region, province”), borrowed from Old Church Slavonic область (oblast’), from Proto-Slavic *obolstь, from earlier Proto-Slavic *obvolstь, *obvoldtь, a compound of *o(b)- (“over”) + *volstь (“rule, power, authority”), thus originally probably meaning "a region ruled over". Compare Proto-Slavic *obvoldati (“to rule”).