Administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1554 to 1872
Arabic: إيالة الحبشة ایالت حبش Eyālet-i Ḥabeş
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
1554–1802
1813–1872
Flag
The Eyalet of Jeddah-Habesh in 1795
Capital
Sawakin,[1] Jeddah[1]
Area
• 1856[2]
503,000 km2 (194,000 sq mi)
History
• Established
1554
• Disestablished
1872
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Mamluk Sultanate
Ethiopian Empire
Khedivate of Egypt
Egypt Eyalet
Hejaz Vilayet
Emirate of Diriyah
Today part of
Saudi Arabia Sudan Eritrea
Habesh Eyalet (Arabic: إيالة الحبشة; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت حبش, romanized: Eyālet-i Ḥabeş)[3] was an Ottoman eyalet. It was also known as the Eyalet of Jeddah and Habesh, as Jeddah was its chief town,[4] and Habesh and Hejaz.[5] It extended on the areas of coastal Hejaz and Northeast Africa that border the Red Sea basin.[4] On the Northeast Africa littoral, the eyalet comprised Suakin and their hinterlands.
Like Ottoman control in North Africa, Yemen, Bahrain, and Lahsa, the Ottomans had no "effective, long term control" outside of the ports where there was a direct Ottoman presence.[6][dubious – discuss]
^ abDavid Lea; Annamarie Rowe (2001). A political chronology of Africa. Taylor & Francis. p. 403. ISBN 978-1-85743-116-2. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
^Thomas Baldwin (1856). Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World ... J.B. Lippincott. p. 1968. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
^"Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
^ abNational Archives (Great Britain) (2004). Islam: 1916-1917. Archive Editions. p. 328. ISBN 978-1-84097-070-8. Retrieved 2013-06-01. Immediately, therefore, after the complete conquest of the Red Sea basin had been accomplished, a new province was formed —the Eyalet of Jeddah and Habecb (Abyssinia), with Jeddah for its chief town. It included the coast of Hejaz and, on the other side, that of Africa; the latter comprising the ports of Suakin, Massowah, Zeila, Berbera, Obok, Tadjuru, Ac, with the territory behind them.
^Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique. J. Perthes. 1867. pp. 827–829. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
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