Baban
Baban was the name of a Kurdish principality with the center of Sulaymaniyah, the nominally subordinate to the Ottoman Empire and from 1649 to 1850 was.
Name
In Western travel accounts, the Baban are also referred to as Bebah, Bebbeh or Bebe. Kurdish and Persian sources they call Baban Baban or Āl -e, while they are called in Turkish Babanlar or Babanzadeler.
History
Feqî Ehmed, who came from the area of Pijder, was the founder of the dynasty. His successor, Baba Sulaiman expand the sphere of influence to Kirkuk. The later rulers Sulaiman Pasha brought the cities Koi Sanjaq, Chanaqin, Hewler, Harir, Altin Köprü, Badra and some areas in western Iran under the control of the principality. Capital of the Baban was until 1781 Qala Chuwalan in Shah Razor, Mahmud Pasha Baban until it moved to the newly established Sulaymaniyah.
The field of Baban extended in its greatest extent from the Small Zab to Diyala. The time from 1750 to 1847 was marked by rivalries with other Kurdish principalities such as Ardalan principality and the Soran principality and problems with the centralization of the Ottoman Empire.
The conflict with the Ottomans ended in 1847, when the Ottoman governor of Mosul Ahmad Pasha Baban defeated the Babanherrscher at Koya. The Baban still live in the area of Sulaymaniyah. Their descendants are well known and enjoy a high recognition. Some of this noble family living in exile in Europe and in the USA.
Distribution of the Sorani ( Zentralkurdisch ) by Baban
The spread of the Sorani is closely related to the Baban. The economic power of the city spread the Zentralkurdische in the region and thus supplanted the older Kelhuri and Gorani. Today, the Zentralkurdische is also used as a source of neologisms of North Kurdistan.
Sorani ( Zentralkurdisch ) is in the autonomous region of Kurdistan in western Iran spoken by several million people. For the case of the Central Kurdish Arabic script is mostly used with Persian characters, but increasingly also the kurdish - Latin alphabet. There is an extensive literary production.