Burgomaster
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Burgomaster is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chief magistrate or executive of a city or town. The name in English was derived from the Dutch burgemees
The Burgomaster's Family, possibly painted by Gerard Donck c. 1640
Manneken Pis dressed as a burgomaster from the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels.
Caption of a Bürgermeisteramt from 1505 (burgomaster Erhart Huck of Bozen, South Tyrol)
Arnold von Brauweiler, a German burgomaster, known in German as Bürgermeister
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
Burgomaster
…combined with other titles, such as Hamburg's First Mayor and President of the Senate). Contemporary titles are commonly translated into English as mayor. The title "bürgermeister" was first used in the early 13th century…
Document of 1389 on the election of the mayor of Stockholm
Arthur Castrén (1866–1946), the Mayor of Helsinki, in the 1930s