For the French term, see Préfecture.

The term prefecture (from the Latin Praefectura) indicates the office, seat, territorial circonscription of a Prefect. In English the term prefecture is also used to refer to offices deemed equivalent in other languages' cultural traditions.

Literal prefectures

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Antiquity

For subsequent types of praefectura, see Praefectus. It has been used most prominently to denote a somewhat self-governing body or area since the tetrarchy, when emperor Diocletian divided the Roman Empire into 4 districts (each divided into dioceses, grouping under a Vicarius a number of Roman provinces, listed under that article), although he maintained two pretorian prefectures as an administrative level above the also surviving dioceses (a few of which got split).

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In Nigata and Yamagata Prefectures here in Japan they are getting clobbered with snow
reishi_spore (Tim Hagiwara) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:13:49 -0000
In Nigata and Yamagata Prefectures here in Japan they are getting clobbered with snow
I woke up this morning at 5:40AM to my house shaking pretty violently. Turns out there was a 5.0 earthquake 2 prefectures away. Wow. Earth.
thissatori (Eric) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:07:29 -0000
I woke up this morning at 5:40AM to my house shaking pretty violently. Turns out there was a 5.0 earthquake 2 prefectures away. Wow. Earth.

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