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