Pre-Roman Empires
Though the legal and administrative framework of provinces, each administrated by a governor, was created by the Romans, the term governor has been a convenient term for historians to use in describing similar systems in antiquity. Indeed, many regions of the pre-Roman antiquity were ultimately replaced by Roman 'standardized' provincial governments after their conquest by Rome.
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“The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.”
—Joseph Chamberlain (18361914)