Matija Ban, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Matija Ban

Serbian writer

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1818

Place of Birth: Petrovo Selo, Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia

Date of Death: 01-Mar-1903

Profession: writer, poet, diplomat, playwright

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Matija Ban (Serbian Cyrillic: ?????? ???; 1818–1903) was a Serbian poet, dramatist, and playwright, born in the city of Dubrovnik.
He settled in Serbia in 1844, and engaged in various diplomatic missions in service of the Principality of Serbia. Ban was a strong advocate of Serbian unity and independence, but was also a pan-Slavist.
He is commonly regarded as being the first to use the term "Yugoslav", in a poem in 1835.