Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Ban was also the title of the governor of each province (called banovina) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. The weight of the title was far less than that of a medieval ban's feudal office.
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“Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 18:3.
“I’ll give my jewels for a set of beads,
My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
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And my large kingdom for a little grave,
A little, little grave, an obscure grave.”
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