Alcalde
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Alcalde is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions. An alcalde was, in the absence of a corregidor, the presiding officer of the Castilian cabi
Mayan alcaldes from Guatemala, 1891
Mayor
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In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the power
Alcalde
…the alcalde was signified by a staff of office, which they were to take with them when doing their business. In modern Spanish, an alcalde is simply a mayor. A woman who holds the office is termed an alcaldesa. In New Spain (Mexico), alcaldes mayores were chief administrators in colonial-era administrative…
Document of 1389 on the election of the mayor of Stockholm
Arthur Castrén (1866–1946), the Mayor of Helsinki, in the 1930s