 The obsolete term for a female governor is the female form "governess", however the modern term for female officials is the gender-neutral form "governor" (without the gender-specific suffix "-ess") to avoid confusion with other meanings of "governess".Though the legal and administrative framework of provinces, each administrated by a governor, was created by the Romans, the term "governor" has been a convenient term for historians to describe similar systems in antiquity.Indeed, many regions of the pre-Roman antiquity were ultimately replaced by Roman 'standardized' provincial governments after their conquest by Rome.