The Baban Principality played an active role in the Ottoman-Safavid conflict and gave significant military support to the Ottomans.

Before the removal of the last Baban leader in 1850, their rule had become limited to their capital Sulaymaniyah and few surrounding villages.

[4] Information on the relations between Baban and the Soran Emirate up to 1596 exist in Şerefname,[4] which also mentioned that Pîr Budek Beg was the founder of the dynasty in the early 16th-century.

[6] As a representative for the Ottomans, Idris Bitlisi met with the Prince of Baban and other Kurdish states immediately after the Battle of Chaldiran and succeeded in forming an alliance between them against the Safavids.

[10] The period from 1750 to 1847 was dominated by rivalry with both Soran and Bohtan, as they also fought against the centralization attempts by the Ottomans and Iran.