Provveditore

• 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 Ottoman Empire. 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 • Santa Maura (Leucada/Lefkada), 1700−1797 • Zante (Zakynthos), 1698−1807 Venetian coastal fortresses in continental Greece • Coron, 1693−1715 • Modon (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 (Heraklion) ==Special local titles==

• On the Ionian island of Corfu, the equivalent Venetian governorship was styled Baili ('Baillif') • Cerigotto (Antikythera) 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 Aegina island • In Cyprus, 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 (Zadar), 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. ==See also==