CHAT: prefecture, etc. [was Re: As Is]

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> Prefecture: to me, it means only: the administration of a subdivision of
> a country (like state is the administration of a country), but Japanese
> people would probably disagree (their Empire is divided into prefectures).
When the Emperor Diocletian divided the Roman Empire (AD 293)
into two halves in an attempt to micromanage it more efficiently, he
also divided each half into halves, and called each of these
sections "prefectures". He also created four tetrarchs:  two
senior ("Augusti") and two junior ("Caesares").

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