Gubernatorial titles

Arabic title for a ruler, physician, or wise man

position in the Roman Empire

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The ispán or count (, , and ), deriving from title of župan, was the leader of a castle district (a fortress and the royal lands attached to it) in the Kingdom of Hungary from the early 11th century. Most of them were also heads of the basic administrative units of the kingdom, called counties, and from the 13th century the latter function became dominant. The ispáns were appointed and dismissed by either the monarchs or a high-ranking royal official responsible for the administration of a larger territorial unit within the kingdom. They fulfilled administrative, judicial and militar

term for a head of government

The Italian title prov[v]editore (plural provveditori; also known in ; ), "he who sees to things" (overseer), was the style of various (but not all) local district governors in the extensive, mainly maritime empire of the Republic of Venice. Like many political appointments, it was often held by noblemen as a stage in their career, usually for a few years.

A plenipotentiary (from the Latin plenus "full" and potens "powerful") is a diplomat who has full powers—authorization to sign a treaty or convention on behalf of a sovereign. When used as a noun more generally, the word can also refer to any person who has full powers. As an adjective, it describes something which confers full powers, such as an edict or an assignment.

__NOTOC__ thumb|An Amtmann in his office or Amtsstube. Reconstruction at Mildenstein Castle (administrative seat in the Amt of Leisnig)

byzantine term designing provincial and local governors

Norwegian head of state in absence of the monarch

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honorary Crown appointment in the UK

Ostikan () was the title used by Armenians for the governors of the early Caliphates. In modern historiography, it is chiefly used for the caliphal governors of the province of Arminiya, which included Greater Armenia.

Landdrost () was the title of various officials with local jurisdiction in the Netherlands and a number of former territories in the Dutch Empire. The term is a Dutch compound, with land meaning "region" and drost, from Middle Dutch drossāte (droes-state, bloke-castle, state-holder) which originally referred to a lord’s chief retainer (who later became the medieval seneschal or steward), equivalent to: an English reeve or steward; a Low German Drost(e) of Northern Germany (cognate with German Truchsess); or German Meier (from Latin majordomus).

agent for commerce

Mütesellim or müsellim (, , , ) was an Ottoman title used for the deputies employed by the sanjak-bey as civil governors in the nahiye administrative unit, who managed tax and tithe collection. The judicial counterpart in the nahiya was the kadi (judges).

Landammann (plural Landammänner), is the German title used by the chief magistrate in certain cantons of Switzerland and at times featured in the head of state's style at the confederal level.

' is a Dutch word (plural ) that literally translates to "upper-head", meaning "supreme headman". The Danish cognate (previously spelled opperhoved), which is a calque derived from a Danish pronunciation of the Dutch or Low German word, is also treated here. The standard German cognate is '.

Darogas (also spelled darogha or daroghah) were police officials in the Mughal Empire and the British Raj. In the Mughal Empire, a daroga was superintendent of the slaves of a Mughal monarch.

government officer

Anthypatos () is the translation in Greek of the Latin proconsul. In the Greek-speaking East, it was used to denote this office in Roman and early Byzantine times, surviving as an administrative office until the 9th century. Thereafter, and until the 11th century, it became a senior Byzantine court dignity.

A corrector (English plural correctors, Latin plural correctores) is a person or object practicing correction, usually by removing or rectifying errors.

thumb|upright|Inscription "Statue of Iddi-Ilum|Iddi-Ilum, shakkanakku of Mari", using the Sumerian: , šagina, on the [[Statue of Iddi-Ilum.]] Shakkanakku (Sumerian: , GIR.NITA or šagina, , Shakkanakku), was an Akkadian-language title designating a military governor. Mari was ruled by a dynasty of hereditary Shakkanakkus which was originally set by the Akkadian Empire and gained independence following Akkad's collapse. It is considered that the Shakkanakkus gained some form of independence and came to be considered as "Kings" from the time of Apil-Kin. A critical analysis of the Shakkanakku Lis

The title of guvernadur ("governor", Ital. governatore) was used by the Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro, initially as the diplomatic office between Montenegro and the Republic of Venice, and later evolved into the counterpart to the Metropolitan as the sovereign. The post was abolished in 1832 by Petar II.

head of a provincial government in China

official who is appointed by the legal ruling monarch to represent them in a country

vice-regal representative in the Cook Islands

former Portuguese colonial official

Epistrategos (; ) was a senior military and administrative office in Ptolemaic Egypt, which was retained during the subsequent Roman period as well. Each epistrategos were responsible for an epistrategy ().