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A paramount chief is the English-language designation for the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a chief-based system. This term is used occasionally in anthropological and archaeological theory to refer to the rulers of multiple chiefdoms or the rulers of exceptionally powerful chiefdoms that have subordinated others. Paramount chiefs were identified by English-speakers as existing in Native American confederacies and regional chiefdoms, such as the Powhatan Confederacy and Piscataway Native Americans encountered by European colonists in the Chesapeake Bay region of North America.

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  • A paramount chief is the English-language designation for the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a chief-based system. This term is used occasionally in anthropological and archaeological theory to refer to the rulers of multiple chiefdoms or the rulers of exceptionally powerful chiefdoms that have subordinated others. Paramount chiefs were identified by English-speakers as existing in Native American confederacies and regional chiefdoms, such as the Powhatan Confederacy and Piscataway Native Americans encountered by European colonists in the Chesapeake Bay region of North America. During the Victoria era, paramount chief was a formal title created by British colonial administrators in the British Empire and applied in Britain's colonies in Asia and Africa. They used it as a substitute for the word "king" to ensure that only the British monarch held that title. Since the title "chief" was already used in terms of district and town administrators, the addition of "paramount" was made so as to distinguish between the ruling monarch and the local aristocracy. (en)
  • Een paramount chief (nada in het Gurunɛ) is een chief, het hoofd van een dorp of gebied, die hoger in hiërarchie staat dan andere chiefs. De chief heeft vaak een politiek-bestuurlijke en rechtsprekende functie. Bovendien is hij degene die andere, ondergeschikte, chiefs in zijn regio aanstelt. (nl)
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  • Een paramount chief (nada in het Gurunɛ) is een chief, het hoofd van een dorp of gebied, die hoger in hiërarchie staat dan andere chiefs. De chief heeft vaak een politiek-bestuurlijke en rechtsprekende functie. Bovendien is hij degene die andere, ondergeschikte, chiefs in zijn regio aanstelt. (nl)
  • A paramount chief is the English-language designation for the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a chief-based system. This term is used occasionally in anthropological and archaeological theory to refer to the rulers of multiple chiefdoms or the rulers of exceptionally powerful chiefdoms that have subordinated others. Paramount chiefs were identified by English-speakers as existing in Native American confederacies and regional chiefdoms, such as the Powhatan Confederacy and Piscataway Native Americans encountered by European colonists in the Chesapeake Bay region of North America. (en)
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  • Paramount chief (nl)
  • Paramount chief (en)
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