During Byzantine Empire era, the main settlement was in Karışmaa Birindi, an ancient town on a tumulus few kilometers south west of Kılbasan.

Kılbasan and vicinity had been a part of Seljuk Empire in the second half of the 11th century.

After Mongol domination, the area became a part of Karamanid beylik (principality).

The earliest settler of the town is probably a Turkmen nomad from north (Kastamonu region) whose title deed is still in the main mosque of Kılbasan.

Beginning by the 1970s, many Kılbasan residents moved to West Europe (especially Netherlands) to work as industrial workers (Gastarbeider).