Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in administration and government]
7. rulers (people)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People
4. people
5. people by occupation
6. people in administration and government
7. administrators
8. officers
9. public officers

Narrower term/s

• regents
• governors general
• palatines

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to rulers of a country or province who act as the representative of their sovereign or king and who are empowered to act in the sovereign's name. They often rule on frontiers or in provinces distant from the seat of power of the state.