#alcade

• Alcalde — A high-ranking administrative and judicial magistrate or official in medieval Spain and its former Latin American colonies, possessing duties similar to those of a local mayor or judge. In modern Spanish administrative language (alcalde), the term officially denotes the office of a municipality's mayor.
• Alcalde — A high-ranking administrative and judicial magistrate or official in medieval Spain and its former Latin American colonies, possessing duties similar to those of a local mayor or judge. In modern Spanish administrative language, the term officially denotes the office of a municipality's mayor.
• Alcaldes — Magistrates, mayors, or high-ranking judicial and administrative officials in medieval Spain and its former colonies in Latin America. It represents the plural form of the noun 'alcade' (or 'alcalde'), a term utilized in world historiography to denote the body of local governors of settlements during the Hispanic imperial period.
• Alcade investiture — A hypothetical term, regional variant, or extremely rare corrupted form found in old manuscripts for the process of appointing or exercising the function of an alcade (alcalde); it can also represent a historical graphic confusion for the word 'alcătuire'. In the old Spanish administrative context, it symbolically described the takeover of local power by a magistrate.