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Starosta, by Kanuty Rusiecki, 1823. Starostwo (literally "eldership") [a] is an administrative unit established from the 14th century in the Polish Crown and later in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until the partition of Poland in 1795. Starostwos were established in the crown lands (królewszczyzna). The term continues to be used in ...
In Poland, a starosta administered crown territory or a district called a starostwo. [2] In the early Middle Ages, a starosta could head a settled urban or rural community or other community, as in the case of a church starosta or an artel starosta. A starosta also functioned as a master of ceremonies. [citation needed]
The administrative offices headed by the starosta are called the starostwo. However, in city counties these institutions do not exist separately – their powers and functions are exercised by the city council ( rada miasta ), the directly elected mayor ( burmistrz or prezydent ), and the city office/town hall ( urząd miasta ).
Land counties have an elected council (rada powiatu), which elects an executive board (zarząd powiatu) headed by the starosta. 66 cities with powiat status (city counties, Polish powiaty grodzkie or more formally miasta na prawach powiatu).
Voivodeships were further divided into powiats (often translated as county) being governed by a starosta generalny or grodowy. Cities were governed by castellans . There were frequent exceptions to these rules, often involving the ziemia subunit of administration: for details on the administrative structure of the Commonwealth, see the article ...
Starosta; A. Edmund Ambroziak; L. Janusz Tyszkiewicz Łohojski; S. Adam Hieronim Sieniawski (1623/1624–1650) This page was last edited on 11 January 2024, at 18:54 ...
Starosta okruh (Ukrainian: Старостинський округ, romanized: Starostynskyj okruh, lit. ' Elder 's district') is an administrative unit in Ukraine , an optional subdivision of the hromadas .
In 1598, Mikołaj received the starostwo of Oświęcim, which he passed to his brother Piotr in 1616. In 1602, he became the starosta of Barwałd, a position he handed over to his son Krzysztof in 1628. At some point, he also held the starostwo of Rabsztyn. In June 1624, he received the starostwo of Nowy Targ. [3]