Governor

A governor is also a device that regulates the speed of a machine. See Governor (device).

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 :

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• colonial High Commissioner (not the Ambassadors exchanged within the Commonwealth)
• Reichskommissar

And this also applies to non-western and/or antique cultures, such as :

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• in the Ottoman empire, various Pashas (generals) administered a province of the Great Sultan's vaste empire, with specific titles (such as Mutessaryf; Vali = Wali was often maintained or even revived in oriental successor states; cfr. Beilerbei (rendered as Governor-general, as he is appointed above several provinces under individual governors) and Dey)