The Italian title provveditore or proveditore (plural -tori), "he who sees to things", was the style of various (but not all) local district governors in the extensive, mainly maritime empire of the Venetian dogal republic. Like many political appointments, it was often held by noblemen 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 the dogal republic, 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.

Stato do Mar, i.e. overseas

Some were Venetian possessions much earlier, but we found no data on the style of their governors; most were lost to the Ottoman Turks, some only later to Bonaparte or to the British

Eastern Adriatic

• On the peninsula Istria
  Istria
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  , a further territorio (now partly in Slovenia), e.g. Pola
  Pula
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• Further south, in Dalmatia - cfr. infra

Individual Ionians Islands

• Cephalonia (Italian name - at present in Greek Kephalonia) 1700-1799
• Cerigo (Kythera) -full style castellano e provveditore, the first part referring to the citadel, cfr. infra- 1698-1799
• Santa Maura (Leucada/Lefkada) 1700-1797
• Zante (Zakynthos) 1698-1807

Venetian coastal fortresses in Greece (mainly continental)

• Corone 1693-1715
• Modon
  MODON
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   1697-1715
• Patras
  Patras
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   (modern Patrai) 1687-1715
• Preveza
  Preveza
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   1721-1791
• Vonitsa
  Vonitsa
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   1719-1797

Provveditore generale

If we render provveditore by governor, then provveditore generale by governor-general. Indeed this was the style of Venetian state officials supervising a whole region of the dogal sway:

• 1409-1797 Dalmatia
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   (mostly present Croatia)
• 1688-1715 in Morea
  Morea
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   (the Byzantine name for the Peloponesos peninsula, the south of continental Greece, in 1718 lost to the Ottoman Turks again), with his seat at N(a)uplion.

Venetian counterparts

• On the Ionian island of Kerkyra (Corfu), the equivalent Venetian governorship was styled Baili
  Baili
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   ('Baillif').
• Cerigotto maintained its own feudal rulers, styled Moite, accepting Venetian suzerainty since 1309
• Style not known for the Venetian fortreses in present Greece at Parga
  Parga
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  , nor for (A)Egina island.
• In Cyprus
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  , the governorship was split between a civilian luogotenente
  Luogotenente
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  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 (Zadar

Zadar

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), Spalato (Split

Split (city)

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, Spalatro), Bouches-du-Cattaro ('mouths of the river Kotor

Kotor

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'), soon joined be the absorbed Ragusa (Dubrovnik), but on 14 October 1809 abolished and annexed into France's Illyrian provinces

Illyrian provinces

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.

Sources and references

• WorldStatesmen - here Greece
• map of Venice's states in 1796