1) Gubernatorial title
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Landdrost was the title of various officials with local jurisdiction in the Netherlands and South Africa`s Cape Colony under Dutch rule. The term is a Dutch compound, with land meaning `region` and drost, from Middle Dutch drossāte which originally referred to a lord`s chief retainer (who later became the medieval seneschal or steward), equiv...
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• Alt. of Landtrost
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Land'drost` noun ; plural
- drosten . Sometimes incorrectly
Landtrost [ Dutch, from
land land +
drost a kind of official; akin to German
truchsess .] In Cape Colony:
(a) A chief magistrate in rural districts. He was replaced in 1827 by 'resident magistr...
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