found: Baqî, Miḧemed Ḧeme. Mîrnişînî Erdełan, Baban, Soran le bełgenamey Qacarîda, 1799-1847 Z, 2002.
found: Gunter, M. Historical dictionary of the Kurds, 2004:(Baban: Kurdish emirate in northern Iraq from 1550 until 1850; emirate of Ardalan was its longtime rival)
found: Encycl. Iranica:v. 3, p. 307 (Bābān, Bāban emirate: Kurdish princely family who from their center at Solaymānīya ruled over an area in Iraqi Kurdistan and western Iran, early 11th/17th - mid-13th/19th cent., and was actively involved in the Perso-Ottoman struggle)
found: EI2:(Bābān: principal fief lay south of the little Zāb River and had as its capital S̲h̲āri-Bāzēr, but in 1199/1784 a new capital, Sulaymāniyya, was built)
found: Edmonds, C.J. Kurds, Turks, and Arabs, 1957:p. 8, etc. (a number of quasi-autonomous Kurdish principalities survived until about a hundred years ago, such as Bohtan, Hakari, Bahdinan, Soran and Baban in [Ottoman] Turkey, and Mukri and Ardelan in Persia; Soran corresponded roughly with Arbil; Baban included the whole of Sulaimani and part of Kirkuk)
found: Bruinessen, M.v. Agha, shaikh and state, 1992:(emirates ... Botan, Hakkari, Baban and Soran had very powerful rulers)