Modern Equivalents
As a generic term, Governor is used for various 'equivalent' officers governing part of a state or empire, rendering other official titles such as:
- colonial High Commissioner (not the Ambassadors exchanged within the Commonwealth)
And this also applies to non-western and/or antique culture
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Famous quotes containing the word modern:
“Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)