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Below is the list of Venetian regiments grouped by territories. In each territory there was a rector with greater powers and authority over others.

Dogado
The dogado was the territory immediately adjacent to Venice (especially the lagoons), coincident with the ancient Venetian state.

In emergency periods, the dogado was administered by a single Provveditore or Provveditore Generale with various magistrates.

Cavarzere (XIII century - 1797): Podesty;
Caorle (1251 - 1797): Podesty;
Chioggia (1208 - 1797): Podestà, two Salinieri (from 1560 one), Castellano (from 1722);
Cologna (1404 - 1797): Podestà, Castellano;
Gambarare (XIII century - 1797): Provveditore;
Grade (1251 - 1797): Count;
Lido (with seat in the castle of Sant'Andrea, (XIII century) - 1797): Podestà, then Castellano;
Loreo (XIII century - 1797): Podesty;
Malamocco (1251 - 1797): Podestà, Officers;
Murano (1271 - 1797): Podesty;
Torcello (with Burano, Mazzorbo and Lido Maggiore, XIII century - 1797): Podesty;
Torre delle Bebe (XIII century - 1607): Podesty.

Earthquake domains
The hinterland between Bergamasco and Friuli was the Domini di Terraferma.

Netherlands
Having been part of the Venetian domains since 1404, Bassano - who already under the Visconti had obtained the status of "land...de per se" - became a "autonomous office" with its own district not dependent on any other capital (it was directly subject to Venice): "sit ipsa terra exempta et separated to quacumque civitate et iurisdictione cuiuscumque civitatis". Finally, in 1760 he recognized the title of "City" by the Venetian Doge, then confirmed by the Austrian and Italian government.

Bassano (1404 - 1797): Podestà and Captain and for a short time a Provveditore

The Podesteria included the city of Bassano and the villas of Cismon, Cartigliano, Pove, Primolano, Rossano, Solagna. To these were added Tezze and Rosà (on land previously of Bassano) and Cassola (on land previously of Pove and Solagna). The district bordered the Trentino to the north, the Treviso to the east, the Padua to the south and the Vicenza to the west, but it included the river Brenta along both banks, for all its length from Primolano to Tezze. This allowed the Republic to control more directly on the water and land route which gave access to the markets in northern Europe.

Bergamasco

Bergamo and the Bergamo valleys spontaneously subdued to Venice at the end of 1427, being ceded by the Duchy of Milan with the Peace of Ferrara. This territory represented the western end of the Republic of Venice. It was divided into several districts, in the center of which it was the city of Bergamo: here some Rectors were elected by the noble council and on several occasions it was placed to hold Bergamo and the Bergamasco a single Provveditore (sometimes a General Provveditore).
Giovanni Da Lezze recalls at the end of the 16th century the presence of a council of the Bergamo valleys, in which it is counted