Editing Podestà (section)

=={{lang|it|Podesteria}}==
Literally, this derived word means the office of a {{lang|it|podestà}} or its term, but {{lang|it|podesteria}} can also designate a district administered by a {{lang|it|podestà}} within a larger state.

In the {{lang|it|[[Domini di Terraferma]]}} that the dogal [[Republic of Venice]] gradually established in the basin of the river Po, annexing various former principalities and self-governing cities, mostly in the fifteenth century, {{lang|it|podesteria}} ({{langx|vec|podestarie}}) were one of the intermediate levels of the hierarchical administrative organization, the highest ("provincial") level being the {{lang|it|territorio}} (roughly a modern administrative region).

After the other dogal republic, [[Republic of Genoa|Genoa]], was in 1273 granted control of [[Beyoğlu|Pera]] and [[Galata]], commercial suburbs of [[Constantinople]], by the Byzantine emperor, it governed them jointly by a common {{Lang|it|podestà}} until 1453, when all Constantinople was conquered by the [[Ottoman Turks]].