Ban (title) - Legacy

Legacy

The word ban is preserved in many modern place names in the regions where bans once ruled.

The region of Banat (sometimes called the Temeswarer Banat) in the Pannonian plain between the Danube and the Tisza rivers, now in Romania, Serbia and Hungary, however, received its name without ever being ruled by a ban.

The alternate name of Craiova is Bănie, the residence city of the ban in the medieval Oltenia region.

A region in central Croatia, south of Sisak, is called Banovina or Banija. The origin of the names of Banova Jaruga (a city in Croatia), and Banja Luka and Banovići (cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina) are also from the word ban.

The term ban is still used in the phrase banski dvori ("ban's court") for the buildings that host high government officials. The Banski dvori in Zagreb hosts the Government of Croatia, while the Banski dvor in Banja Luka hosts the President of Republika Srpska (a first-tier subdivision of Bosnia and Herzegovina). The building known as Bela banovina ("the white banovina") in Novi Sad hosts the parliament and government of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia. The building received this name because it previously hosted the administration of Danube Banovina.