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

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

The provveditore generale, or governor-general, was the style of Venetian state officials supervising a whole region of the dogal sway:
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, Spalato, Bouches-du-Cattaro, soon joined be the absorbed Ragusa, but on 14 October 1809 abolished and annexed into France's Illyrian provinces.