Administratively synonyms

Macao was administratively united to Portuguese Timor till 1896, and still pays a contribution to the revenue.

In 1888 Charlottesville was chartered as a city administratively independent of the county.

The reformers of the previous reign had endeavoured to make the emancipated peasantry administratively and economically independent of the landed proprietors; the conservatives of this later era, proceeding on the assumption that the peasants did not know how to make a proper use of the liberty prematurely conferred upon them, endeavoured to re-establish the influence of the landed proprietors by appointing from amongst them " land-chiefs," who were to exercise over the peasants of their district a certain amount of patriarchal jurisdiction.

Geographically, though not administratively, the steppe provinces of Akmolinsk and Semipalatinsk belong to Siberia.