Kūhbanān

Kūhbanān stood on the dry approaches to Kerman, a place already known to medieval travellers for metalworking. Marco Polo's account describes iron and steel manufacture there, together with furnaces producing tutty, a zinc-bearing preparation used medicinally for the eyes. These observations give the town a specific industrial history alongside its position on routes crossing the Iranian interior.

In the late Safavid period Kūhbanān also experienced the weakening of provincial security. Baluchi forces attacked it in October 1691 before moving against Zarand. After Šāhverdi Khan secured appointment as governor of Kerman in 1693, his expeditions included Kūhbanān among areas where Baluchi groups were concentrated. The town's history thus joined a long tradition of production and travel to the conflicts affecting Kerman's northern districts near the end of Safavid rule.