Proveditor
Sign in to saveThe Italian title prov[v]editore (plural provveditori; also known in ; ), "he who sees to things" (overseer), was the style of various (but not all) 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.
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It is catalogued under topics including Government of the Republic of Venice, Gubernatorial titles and Venetian governors.
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Adriatic home territory
- Overseas territories (Stato da Mar)
- Eastern Adriatic
- Individual Ionian Islands
- Venetian coastal fortresses in continental Greece
- Provveditore generale
- Special local titles
- Later Napoleonic use
- See also
- References
The Italian title prov[v]editore (plural provveditori; also known in ; ), "he who sees to things" (overseer), was the style of various (but not all) 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 (the upper level), podesterias, capitanatos, vicariatos, ecclesiastical and private jurisdictions etc.
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