Elder (administrative title)

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Various Uses

• Alderman - An Alderman
  Alderman
  
  An alderman is a member of a Municipal government assembly or council in many jurisdictions. Historically the term could also refer to local municipal judges in small legal proceedings ....
   in modern Anglo-Saxon
  England
  
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   derived legal systems is synonymous with what in other systems might be known as a city councilman. It derives from the term ealdorman
  Ealdorman
  
  An ealdorman is the term used for a high-ranking royal official and prior magistrate of an Anglo-Saxons shire from about the ninth century to the time of King Cnut....
  , from which the term Earl
  Earl
  
  Earl was the Anglo-Saxons form and jarl the Scandinavian form of a title meaning "chieftain" and referring especially to chieftains set to rule a territory in a king's stead....
   is also derived, meaning old man.
• Gerousia - Gerousia
  Gerousia
  
  The Gerousia was the Spartan senate . It was created by the Spartan lawgiver Lycurgus in the seventh century BC, in his Great Rhetra . According to Lycurgus' biographer Plutarch, the Gerousia was the first significant constitutional innovation instituted by Lycurgus....
   was the Spartan equivalent of a senate. The term means Council of Elders.
• Hor Chan - Mayan, meaning "Chief of Chan." Chan was a term some Maya used to refer to themselves.
• Indigenous Australians
  Indigenous Australians
  
  Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands and their descendants. Indigenous Australians are distinguished as either Australian Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders, who currently together make up about 2.6% of Australia's population....
   use the term to denote a widely-respected man of authority who has been through many rituals and ceremonies and has a deep knowledge of traditional lore. He will be consulted on any important aspect of Aboriginal life. In some Aboriginal societies, the term is also applied to women holding a similar position of status in their society.
• Senator - In the Senate
  Senate
  
  A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature or Parliament. There have been many such bodies in history, the first of which was the Roman Senate....
   of Rome
  Rome
  
  Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
  , the senators were men. Senator comes from the Latin
  Latin
  
  Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
   root sen- "old" (senex "old man"), and the senators were actually called patres — 'fathers'.
• Seniunas - Ruler of Eldership, (seniunija
  Seniunija
  
  ||}Seniunija is the smallest Subdivisions of Lithuania of Lithuania. An eldership could either be a very small region consisting of few villages, one single town, or part of a big city....
   in Lithuanian
  Lithuanian language
  
  Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognised as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad....
  ), Lithuania
  Lithuania
  
  Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
  's smallest administrative division.
• Shaikh - Shaikh means "old man" in Arabic
  Arabic language
  
  Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
  . There are specific cultural and religious connotations as well.
• Starosta or Starost - Starosta
  Starosta
  
  Starost is a title for an official or unofficial position of leadership that has been used in various contexts through most of Slavic people. It can be translated as 'Elder '....
  , derrived from word stary - "old", is a title for an official or unofficial position of leadership that has been used in various contexts through most of Slavic history (see also Starets
  Starets
  
  A starets is an elder of a Russian Orthodox Church monastery who functions as venerated adviser and teacher. Startsy are charismatic spiritual leaders whose wisdom stems from Intuition obtained from ascetic experience....
  ).
• Vanem - Ancient ruler of an Estonia
  Estonia
  
  Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
  n parish and county. From 1920-1937, Estonian head of state and head of government
  Prime Minister of Estonia
  
  The Prime Minister of Estonia is the head of government of the Republic of Estonia. The prime minister is nominated by the President of Estonia after appropriate consultations with the parliamentary factions and conferred by Parliament....
   was called Riigivanem, meaning "State Elder".
• Witan - In Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic
  Germanic peoples
  
  File:Germanische-ratsversammlung 1-1250x715.jpgThe Germanic peoples are a historical Ethnolinguistics group, originating in Northern Europe and identified by their use of the Indo-European languages Germanic languages which diversified out of Common Germanic in the course of the Pre-Roman Iron Age....
   traditions was a wise man although usually just a noble
  Nobility
  
  Nobility is a government-privileged title which may be either hereditary or for a lifetime. Titles of nobility exist today in many countries although it is usually associated with present or former monarchies....
  . The term is most often used to describe those who attended the Witenagemot
  Witenagemot
  
  The Witenagemot or the Witena gemot , also known as the Witan was a political institution in Anglo-Saxon England which operated from before the seventh century until the eleventh century....
  .

See also

• Religious elder