Provveditore
The Italian title proveditore, "he who sees to things", was the style of various local district governors in the extensive, mainly maritime empire of the Republic of Venice. 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 Venice, mainly in the 15th century, they were appointed in considerable number as part of a complex hierarchical structure, including territories, podesterias, capitanatos, vicariatos, ecclesiastical and private jurisdictions etc.
Overseas territories (Stato da Mar)
Eastern Adriatic
- On the Istria peninsula, a further territorio, e.g. Pola
- Further south, in Dalmatia - cfr. infra
- Cattaro, see List of Venetian governors of Kotor
Individual Ionian Islands
- Cephalonia, 1700−1799
- Cerigo, full style castellano e provveditore, the first part referring to the citadel, cf. infra, 1698−1799
- Santa Maura, 1700−1797
- Zante, 1698−1807
Venetian coastal fortresses in continental Greece
- Coron, 1693−1715
- Modon, 1697−1715
- Patrasso, 1687−1715
- Preveza, 1721−1791
- Vonitsa, 1719−1797
Provveditore generale
- Venetian Dalmatia
- Morea, seat at Nauplion
- Provveditore generale da Mar, seat at Corfu
- Provveditore generale di Candia, seat at Candia
Special local titles
- On the Ionian island of Corfu, the equivalent Venetian governorship was styled Baili
- Cerigotto 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