Habesh Eyalet
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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.
Quick Facts Arabic: إيالة الحبشةایالت حبش Eyālet-i Ḥabeş, Capital ...
Arabic: إيالة الحبشة ایالت حبش Eyālet-i Ḥabeş | |||||||||||||||||
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Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||||||
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The Eyalet of Jeddah-Habesh in 1795 | |||||||||||||||||
Capital | Sawakin,[1] Jeddah[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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• 1856[2] | 503,000 km2 (194,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||
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• Established | 1554 | ||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1872 | ||||||||||||||||
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Today part of | Saudi Arabia Sudan Eritrea |
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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]