Balaban may refer to:

Places

Azerbaijan

Balaxanı Balaxanı or Balakhani is a settlement and municipality near Baku, Azerbaijan, on the Absheron Peninsula. Taking advantage of the area's oil pools, a 35 m deep well was dug manually in 1593. The Russians built the first oil-distilling factory he ...

, Azerbaijan, formerly Balaban

Iran

Balaban, Khoy Balaban ( fa, بلبان, also Romanized as Bālābān) is a village in Aland Rural District, Safayyeh District, Khoy County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, i ...

(Persian: , ''Balabān'') *

Balaban, Piranshahr Balaban ( fa, بالابان, also Romanized as Bālābān) is a village in Lahijan-e Sharqi Rural District, Lajan District, Piranshahr County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and al ...

(Persian: , ''Bālābān'')

Syria

* Balaban ( ar, بلابان, Bālābān) is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate, Syria

Turkey

Balaban, Büyükorhan Balaban is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Büyükorhan, Bursa Province Bursa Province ( tr, ) is a province in Turkey along the Sea of Marmara coast in northwestern Anatolia. It borders Balıkesir to the west, Kütahya ...

Balaban, Eğil Balaban () is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Eğil, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic ...

Balaban, İzmit Balaban is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Kartepe, Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,326 (2022). Geography Balaban is located in the Samanlı Mountain range, on the slopes of Kartepe mountain. It is at the south ...

, a village in Kocaeli, Turkey

Other uses

Balaban (instrument) Balaban, or balaman ( az, Balaban – بالابان; fa, بالابان) is cylindrical-bore, double-reed wind instrument about long with eight finger holes and one thumb hole. This instrument is played in the eastern part of Iran's histo ...

, a double reed wind instrument of the duduk family *

Balaban (surname) Balaban (also Ballaban, Ballabon) is a surname, from a Turkic word meaning "robust", "burly", or a Ukrainian word meaning "hawk". Notable people with the surname include: * Alexandru Balaban (born 1931), Romanian chemist * Alper Balaban (1987–20 ...

Balaban and Katz Balaban and Katz Theater Corporation, or B&K, was a theatre corporation which owned a chain of motion picture theaters in Chicago and surrounding areas. It was founded by Barney Balaban (later long-time President of Paramount Pictures), his six ...