Habesh Eyalet
| Habesh Eyalet | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Eyalet of Jeddah-Habesh in 1609 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Sawakin, Jeddah | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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• 1856 | 503,000 km2 (194,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||||||||||
• 1866 | 18,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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• Established | 1557 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1872 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Saudi 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.