Baladiyah

Baladiyah (Arabic, بلدية) is a type of Arab administrative division of the territory that can be translated as a municipality or district. The plural is baladiyat (in Arabic, بلديات). Grammatically, this word is the feminine of "rural". In the municipalities of Algeria, the term baladiyah is used to refer to the tertiary levels of the divisions of the administration, while in the municipalities of Lebanon and the municipalities of Qatar, it is used for level divisions higher.

Libyan districts were also called baladiyah, but the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi changed the country's territorial organization on the basis of the Jamahiriya, thus changing its name to a term of its own invention, shabiya. >

In the Turkish language, the word Belediye, which is a linguistic loan from Arabic, means township or town hall.

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