The Collaborative International Dictionary
Starosty \Star"os*ty\ (-[o^]s*t[y^]), n.
A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life.
[Poland]
--Brande & C.
Wiktionary
n. In Poland, a castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life.
Wikipedia
Starosty is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wieliczki, within Olecko County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Wieliczki, south-east of Olecko, and east of the regional capital Olsztyn.
Before 1945 the area was part of Germany ( East Prussia). After World War II the region was placed under Polish administration and ethnically cleansed according to the post-war Potsdam Agreement. The native German populace was expelled and replaced with Poles.
Usage examples of "starosty".
I shall nevertheless content myself with the unimaginative but reasonable explanation that in the year 1484 a starosty official in Tuchel, Kosznewski by name, signed a document officially defining the rights and obligations of all the villages in the region, and that these villages later came to be known as Kosznew or Koshnavian villages after him.
The names of towns and districts may lend themselves to pedantry of this kind, but Kosznewski, the methodical starosty official, is no help in deciphering Tulla, more a something than a girl.