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The Italian word ''luogotenente'' (English: lieutenant), plural ''luogotenenti'', is an etymological parallel to lieutenant, deriving from the Latin ''locum tenens'' "holding a place", i.e. someone who fills a position instead of another, as a substitute, deputy, et cetera. It has a few specific historical uses: ==Military post== The knightly officer who is in daily command of the Grand Master's own regimental company, to which the ''famigliari'' (closest personal staff) belonged. ==Civilian administrator== It was also the governor (elsewhere other titles, such as provveditore, were used) for the Venetian Republic on the island of Cyprus, which it bought from its last crusader king from the house of Lusignan, usually for a two-year term, until the Turks overran it in 1570. Besides him the military command was entrusted to a ''capitano'' ('captain', de facto military governor), from 1480 to 1571 (when Famagusta, the last fortress, fell). Thereafter the island became a Sandjak (military province) of the Ottoman Empire (''Kibris'' in Turkish), part of the Eyalet of the Islands (ruled from Rhodes island), governed by an Ottoman Muhassil (Lieutenant-governor; already appointed on paper, for the conquest, since 1690), since 1745 by a (higher rank, equally military) vali. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Luogotenente」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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