Ban

Ban may refer to:

Law

  • Ban (law), a decree that prohibits something, sometimes a form of censorship, being denied from entering or using the place/item
  • The imperial ban (Reichsacht), a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman Empire
  • The king's ban (Königsbann), a royal command or prohibition in the medieval Holy Roman Empire
  • Herem (censure), usually translated as the Ban, a form of excommunication in Judaism
  • Herem (war or property), a command to destroy in the Hebrew Bible
  • People

  • Ban (surname), a Chinese surname
  • Ban (Korean name), a Korean surname and element in given names
  • Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General
  • Ban (mythology), a king from Arthurian legend
  • Ban (title), a noble title used in south-eastern Europe (Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Hungary)
  • Ban of Croatia
  • Matija Ban, Croatian poet
  • Oana Ban, Romanian artistic gymnast
  • Shigeru Ban, Japanese architect
  • Places

  • Ban, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso
  • Bans, Jura, a commune in eastern France
  • Baní

    Baní is a capital town of the Peravia Province, Dominican Republic. It is the commercial and manufacturing center in a region producing bananas and coffee.

    Overview

    The city of Bani is the capital of the Peravia province; its residents also know it as the home of poets. It’s only an hour’s drive west of Santo Domingo. The province’s population is relatively small with 169,865 people, and only 61,864 in the Bani metro area. This is a tightly knit community with families and neighborhoods dating back several centuries.

    Bani is a Taino word meaning “abundant water.” The area was named after an important Taino leader of the Maguana people. He was said to be one of Caonabo’s closest allies. But, it wasn’t until 1764 when a group of neighbors concerned with their security and safety came together to purchase a property large enough to build their own village in the valley of Bani. Historians set the sum of this purchase as that of “300 pesos fuertes” for a property called Cerro Gordo; the principals were listed as Francisco Baez and Bartolome del Castillo.

    Ōban

    An Ōban was a monetary ovoid gold plate, and the largest denomination of Tokugawa coinage. Tokugawa coinage worked according to a triple monetary standard, using gold, silver and bronze coins, each with their own denominations.

    The first Oban – Tenshō Ōban (天正大判) – were minted by the Gotō family under the orders of Hideyoshi in 1588.

    The Tenshō Ōban was equivalent to ten Ryōs, or ten Koban (小判) plates, with a weight of 165 g.

    Notes

    References

  • Mark Metzler (2006). Lever of empire: the international gold standard and the crisis of liberalism in prewar Japan. Volume 17 of Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24420-6. 
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