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Ivan Mažuranić
Ivan Mažuranić was a Croatian poet, lawyer and politician who served as ban of Croatia from 1873 to 1880, the first ban not of noble birth. His epic poem The Death of Smail-aga Čengić (1846) is a classic of Croatian literature. As ban he modernised the administration, separated the courts from the government and reformed the schools.
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