Baban

Baban (1649–1850) were a Kurdish principality which ruled areas in present-day Iraqi Kurdistan and western Iran from the early 17th century until its demise in 1851. The principality played an active role in Ottoman-Persian conflict. The earliest ancestor of the princely family of Baban is considered to be Ahmad Faqih or Faqi Ahmad from the district of Pijder. The Babans claimed descent from a Frankish woman called Keghan who was taken prinsoner by their ancestor in a battle. According to Sharafnameh, the first chief of the clan was Pir Badak Babe who probably lived around 1500.