A leading Kurdish emirate of the Shahrizor region on the Ottoman side of the frontier, which founded the city of Sulaymaniyah in 1784 as its capital; long a military ally of the Ottomans against Safavid/Qajar Iran and the rival Ardalan, abolished in 1850.
Suppressed by the Ottoman Empire in 1850 under the Tanzimat centralization; the last Baban ruler was removed and the emirate absorbed into direct Ottoman provincial administration.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Baban (Emirate of Baban) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1649 · 1708 · 1737 · 1751.
Covers the Baban emirate, the founding of Sulaymaniyah, and its Ottoman-Iranian frontier role.
Analyses the Baban as one of the great Kurdish emirates before Ottoman centralization.