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podestà.
high officials in many Italian cities beginning in the later Middle Ages
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Podestà, also potestate or podesta in English, was the name given to the holder of the highest civil office in the government of the cities of central and northern Italy during the Late Middle Ages. Sometimes, it meant the chief magistrate of a city-state, the counterpart to similar positions in other cities that went by other names, e.g. rettori ('rectors').
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- Holy Roman Empire, Italy