Paramount chief
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A paramount chief is the English-language designation for a king or queen or the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a chief-based sys
The Great Mongol Khan: Genghis Khan
Manchu Tribal Chief Nurhaci
The current Huguan Siou
Samoan paramount chief Mata'afa Iosefo (1832–1912)
Chiefdom
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A chiefdom is a political organization of people represented or governed by a chief. Chiefdoms have been discussed, depending on their scope, as a stateless, state analogue or early state system or in
Paramount chief
…designation for a king or queen or the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a chief-based system. This term is used occasionally in anthropological and archaeological theory to refer to the rulers of multiple chiefdoms or the rulers of exceptionally…
The chiefdom of Afareïtu in Moʻorea, French Polynesia, c. 1890