Rector (politics)

Rectors and rectorates in politics and administration included:

Roman

Rector provinciae was a Latin generic term for Roman governor, the governor of a Roman province, known after the time of Suetonius, and specifically a legal term after Emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy, regardless of what their specific titles may have been.

A similar gubernatorial use or as chief magistrate existed in the Republic of Ragusa, which was governed by a Rector :

1358–1808, during the independence of the Ragusan Republic and two years after it was occupied by Napoleonic France in 1806.
one more Rector, from 18 to 29 January 1814, was Count Sabo Đurđević, the last previous incumbent, during the short-lived liberation of the Republic, before the occupation by Austrian troops.

The seat of the rector was the Rector's Palace, Dubrovnik.

Primo Rettore, from 8 September 1920 to 29 December 1920, was the title of Gabriele D'Annunzio when he created the Italian Regency of Carnaro

For the use of the style duke and rector of Burgundy by the Zähringer dynasty claimants to viceregal powers as Regent in the Kingdom of Burgundy within the Holy Roman Empire, see King of Burgundy#Rectorate of Burgundy
Contemporary charters in Latin used a number of additional styles for the Danish king Cnut having rex Anglorum in the core plus various other titles, including rex Anglorum totiusque Brittannice orbis gubernator et rector i.e., 'king of the Angli and of all Britain governor and rector'
In an early 12th-century oath to Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, this ruler is referred to as rector catalanicus.
The Comtat Venaissin in southern France was administered by a rector since it became a papal possession until 1790.