Habesh Eyalet

Habesh Eyalet
Arabic: إيالة الحبشة
Ottoman Turkish: ایالت حبش
Eyālet-i Ḥabeş
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
  • 1557–1802
  • 1813–1872
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The Eyalet of Jeddah-Habesh in 1795
CapitalSawakin, Jeddah
Area 
 1856
503,000 km2 (194,000 sq mi)
Population 
 1866
18,000
History 
 Established
1557
 Disestablished
1872
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Mamluk Sultanate
Ethiopian Empire
Adal Sultanate
Sultanate of Dahlak
Khedivate of Egypt
Egypt Eyalet
Hejaz Vilayet
Emirate of Diriyah
Khedivate's Somali Coast
Today part ofSaudi Arabia
Sudan
Eritrea
Djibouti
Somalia

Habesh Eyalet (Arabic: إيالة الحبشة; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت حبش, romanized: Eyālet-i Ḥabeş) was an Ottoman eyalet. It was also known as the Eyalet of Jeddah and Habesh, as Jeddah was its chief town, and Habesh and Hejaz. It extended on the areas of coastal Hejaz and Northeast Africa of Eritrea that border the Red Sea basin. On the Northeast Africa littoral, the eyalet extended from Suakin and their hinterlands to Zeila.

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.