Galil (administrative unit)

In Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a galil was an administrative unit of Jewish internal autonomy.Scepter of Judah: The Jewish Autonomy in the Eighteenth-Century Crown Poland, pp. 6 They were governed by Jewish regional councils (va'ad galil)."Councils", The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

While initially they matched the Polish structure of voivodeships and other administrative divisions in other parts of the Commonwealth, over time the discrepancies between the state internal borders and those of the Jewish autonomy grew quite pronounced.

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