The Ban of Slavonia was the governor

Governor

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 of Slavonia

Slavonia

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, later appointed by the kings of Hungary

King of Hungary

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 in the 12th-15th centuries. According to the public law of the Kingdom of Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary

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, the Bans were counted among the "barons of the realm" and thus they enjoyed several privileges connected to their office. From the 16th century, their office was united with that of the Ban of Dalmatia and Croatia.

List of Bans of Slavonia

• Demetrius Zvonimir (c. 1065–1075)
• Kledin (around 1116)
• Elek (before 1141)
• Belush (1144-around 1156, around 1163)
• Apa (around 1158)
• Ampud (1163–1174) / (1163-before 1178)
• Dénes (1181–1183)
• Shuban (around 1185)
• Kalán de genere
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  Bárkalán (1193–1194)
• Nicholas (1198–1199)
• Benedict de genere (?) Osl
  Osli
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   (1199–1200)
• Ipoch (1203-1204/1204)
• Mercurius de genere (?) Gutkeled
  Gutkeled
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  (1205–1206)
• Chepan (1206–1207)
• Bánk de genere Bárkalán (1208–1209, 1217–1218)
• Berthold of Merania (1209–1212)
• Michael de genere Kacsics (1212)
• Simon de genere Kacsics (1212)
• Martin de genere Hontpázmány (1212–1213) / (1213)
• Gyula de genere Kán (1213, 1219, 1229–1235)
• Atyusz de genere Vázsony (1214, 1219–1222)

Sources

• Bán, Péter (editor): Magyar Történelmi Fogalomtár; Gondolat, Budapest, 1989;
  ISBN 963-282-202-1.
• Engel, Pál: Magyarország világi archontológiája (1301–1457) (The Temporal Archontology of Hungary (1301-1457)); História - MTA Történettudományi Intézete, 1996, Budapest; ISBN 963-8312-43-2.
• Kristó, Gyula (editor): Korai Magyar Történeti Lexikon - 9-14. század (Encyclopedia of the Early Hungarian History - 9-14th centuries); Akadémiai Kiadó, 1994, Budapest; ISBN 963-05-6722-9.
• Markó, László: A magyar állam főméltóságai Szent Istvántól napjainkig - Életrajzi Lexikon (The High Officers of the Hungarian State from Saint Stephen to the Present Days - A Biographical Encyclopedia); Magyar Könyvklub, 2000, Budapest; ISBN 963-547-085-1.
• Stipta, István: A magyar bírósági rendszer története (A History of the Judicial System in Hungary); Multiplex Media - Debrecen University Press, 1997, Debrecen; ISBN 963-04-9197-4

External links

• List of rulers