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This paper is concerned with the time optimal problem of the following retarded functional-differential equations in a Banach space \(X\): \[ \begin{gathered} {d\over dt} x(t)= A_0x(t)+ A_1x(t- h)+ \int^0_{-h} a(s) A_2 x(t+ s) ds+ f(t),\quad t\geq 0,\\ x(0)= \phi^0,\quad x(s)= \phi^1(s),\;-h\leq s< 0,\end{gathered}\tag{1} \] where \(A_0\) is the infinitesimal generator of an analytic semigroup and \(A_i\), \(i= 1,2\), are linear operators such that \(D(A_i)\supset D(A_0)\). It is assumed that \(X\) is \(\zeta\)-convex and \(\|A^{is}_0\|\leq Ce^{\gamma|s|}\), \(0\leq\gamma< \pi/2\), for every real number \(s\), so that the maximal regularity result of G. Dore and A. Venni holds for the equation \(du/dt= A_0u+ f\). Let \(U_{\text{ad}}\subset M_p= X\times L^p(- h,0; D(A_0))\), \(1< p<\infty\), be an admissible set of initial values \(\phi= (\phi^0,\phi^1)\), and \(W\subset X\) be a target set. Assuming that \(U_{\text{ad}}\) and \(W\) are weakly compact and \[ \{\phi\in U_{\text{ad}}: x_\phi(t)\in W\text{ for some }t\in [0,T]\}\neq \emptyset, \] where \(x_\phi\) is the resolution of (1), the authors prove the existence of a time optimal initial function. The related results on the maximal principle and bang-bang principle are also established. In the definition of \(M_p\), \(X\) would have to be replaced by \((D(A_0), X)_{1/p,p}\).