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Gmina -- good translation?


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Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂ 		 Oct 3, 10, 22:54    #1
For the Polish Gmina I have seen such translations as: municipality, commune. communtiy, administrative district and rural administrative district for gmina wiejska. However, a powiat is also referred to as a district, although some want to call it a county or simply spell the original wtih a v: poviat.
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Joined: Apr 22, 09  Pictures: 3 ♀ 		 Oct 3, 10, 23:28    #2
"borough" - a town or a district which has its own council
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Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂ 		 Oct 4, 10, 00:01    #3
Then a gmina miejsko-wiejska would be an urban-rural borough?
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Joined: Nov 27, 07 ♂ 		 Oct 4, 10, 00:04    #4
Something like the old RDCs (Rural District Councils) that existed in the UK before 1974. They should never have been abolished, and I hope Poland keeps them.
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Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂ 		 Oct 4, 10, 00:11    #5
Administrative nomenclature can be confusing from country to country. I am wary of the term district in RDC, a as it applies to the larger unit known in Poland as a powiat.
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Joined: Nov 27, 07 ♂ 		 Oct 4, 10, 00:16    #6
I would translate it as powiat too, though the RDCs could either be the gmina for a small community, or the gmina for areas outside the built up part of a town. The nomenclature can indeed be a problem.
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Joined: Apr 29, 10 ♂ 		 Oct 4, 10, 00:26    #7
County?
jonniThreads: 26
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Joined: Nov 27, 07 ♂ 		 Oct 4, 10, 00:28    #8
County's something between powiat and wojwodstwo.
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Joined: Oct 29, 09  Pictures: 1 ♂ 		 Oct 4, 10, 01:09    #9
A safe choice is.. not to translate it.
...  Oct 4, 10, 02:54    #10
Wojewodstwo is a province. powiat is kind of like a county. gmina is kind of like a parish (but not church related)
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Joined: Nov 27, 07 ♂ 		 Oct 4, 10, 03:09    #11
...:
gmina is kind of like a parish

In big cities there are many parishes within one gmina.
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Joined: Apr 30, 08 ♀ 		 Oct 4, 10, 03:31    #12
Olaf:
A safe choice is.. not to translate it.


such is the EU directive for official documents. Powiat too.
...  Oct 4, 10, 09:53    #13
In big cities there are many parishes within one gmina.

notice the part in the brackets.. not the same idea as a church parish.


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