Captaincy
（重定向自Capitania）
A Captaincy (Spanish:capitanía [kapitaˈni.a], Portuguese:capitania [kɐpitɐˈni.ɐ], Croatian:kapetanija) is a historical administrative division of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires. It was instituted as a method of organization, directly associated with the home-rule administrations of medieval feudal governments, wherein the monarch delimited territories for colonization that were administered by men of confidence.