Re: Help with ban_Banat

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "S & L" <mbusines@...> wrote:

> "The term . was preserved only in Croatia (there the title of ban

was used

> from X. to XX. century) and only after XII. century was spread to

other

> Hungarian lands".
>
> Well, this is one of my problem! Who was the first croat ban? And

is

> this/his title linked with an Avar or Bulgarian term OR is

appeared under

> the influence of Carolingian Court practices?

Origin is still unknown and nobody knows who was the first croatian
ban.
First who mentioned the title of ban in Croatia was bizantine
imperator Constantine VII Flavius Porphyrogenitus (905-959) in his
work "De Administrando Imperio".
In cahapter 30. he mentioned that croatian ban rule Lika, Krbava and
Gacka, and in chapter 31. when he writes how ban Pribina in a
dynastic struggle killed croatian king Miroslav in a year 948.