Provveditore

Today we want to talk about Provveditore, a topic that has gained relevance in recent years and that has generated great interest in society. Provveditore is an issue that affects people of all ages, genders and social classes, and its importance lies in the multiple aspects it covers. From its impact on the economy to its influence on culture and everyday life, Provveditore has become a central topic today. In this article, we will analyze different aspects related to Provveditore, from its origin to its possible solutions, with the aim of offering a comprehensive and in-depth vision of this topic.

The Italian title proveditore (plural provveditori; also known in Greek: προνοητής, προβλεπτής; Serbo-Croatian: providur), "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.

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

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

Provveditore generale

The provveditore generale, or governor-general, was the style of Venetian state officials supervising a whole region of the dogal sway:

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.

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