The Italian title ''prov ditore'' (plural ''provveditori''; also known in gr, προνοητής, προβλεπτής; sh, providur), "he who sees to things" (

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), was the style of various (but not all) local district governors in the extensive, mainly maritime empire of the

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. Like many political appointments, it was often held by

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as a stage in their career, usually for a few years.

Adriatic home territory

*In the Stato di Terraferma, the continental part of northern Italy acquired by Venice, mainly in the 15th century, they were appointed in considerable number as part of a complex hierarchical structure, including territories (the upper level), '' podesterias, capitanatos, vicariatos'', ecclesiastical and private jurisdictions etc.

Overseas territories (Stato da Mar)

Some were Venetian possessions much earlier, but no data on the style of their governors exist; most were lost to the

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Eastern Adriatic

*On the Istria peninsula, a further territorio (now partly in Slovenia), e.g. Pola (Pula) *Further south, in Dalmatia - cfr. infra * Cattaro (Kotor), see List of Venetian governors of Kotor

Individual Ionian Islands

* Cephalonia, 1700−1799 * Cerigo (Kythera), full style ''castellano e provveditore'', the first part referring to the citadel, cf. infra, 1698−1799 *

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(Leucada/Lefkada), 1700−1797 * Zante (Zakynthos), 1698−1807

Venetian coastal fortresses in continental Greece

* Coron, 1693−1715 *

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(Methoni), 1697−1715 * Patrasso (Patras), 1687−1715 * Preveza, 1721−1791 * Vonitsa, 1719−1797

Provveditore generale

The ''provveditore generale'', or governor-general, was the style of Venetian state officials supervising a whole region of the dogal sway: * Venetian Dalmatia (1409−1797) * Morea (1688−1715), seat at Nauplion * Provveditore generale da Mar, seat at Corfu * Provveditore generale di Candia, seat at Candia (

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)

Special local titles

*On the Ionian island of Corfu, the equivalent Venetian governorship was styled '' Baili'' ('Baillif') *Cerigotto (

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) maintained its own feudal rulers, styled ''Moite'', accepting Venetian suzerainty since 1309 *Style not known for the Venetian fortresses in present Greece at Parga, nor for

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island *In

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, the governorship was split between a civilian '' luogotenente'' and a military ''capitano''

Later Napoleonic use

Under French rule, Dalmatia was styled a ''provveditorate generale'', or in French ''inspection générale'' in 1808, when it was integrated in the Napoleonic Italian kingdom, with three military subdivisions, Zara (

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), Spalato ( Split, Spalatro), Bouches-du-Cattaro ('mouths of the river Kotor'), soon joined be the absorbed Ragusa (Dubrovnik), but on 14 October 1809 abolished and annexed into France's Illyrian provinces.

References

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