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STAROSTA - The title of starost or starosta (Cyrillic: /, Latin: capitaneus, German: Starost, Hauptmann) is a Slavic term that originally referred to the admini...
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Horoscope includes love, thanks to noble Pole |
Polish noble turned back other ranks between stations |
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Aug 19 2003 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
May 31 2002 The Times - Cryptic |
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The title of starost or starosta (Cyrillic: /, Latin: capitaneus, German: Starost, Hauptmann) is a Slavic term that originally referred to the administrator of the assets of a "clan, kindred, extended family". Since the Middle Ages, it has been used for both official and unofficial leadership positions, used in various contexts through most of Slavic history. In this respect, it resembles the word "elder" or "senior". In terms of a city or a municipality, a "starosta" was historically not a mayor as a supreme representative of an elected self-government, but a senior royal administrative official, most likely translated with the outdated title Seneschal, and analogous to a gubernator. In Poland, a starosta would administer a crown land territory or district called a starostwo. * In the early Middle Ages, the starosta could be the head of a Slavic community or of other communities, so one finds designations such as church starosta, artel starosta, etc. The starosta also functioned as th |