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Flag of Habesh Eyalet   Location of Habesh Eyalet The Eyalet of
Jeddah-Habesh in 1795 Capital Massawa,[1] Sawakin,[2] Jeddah[2]
 -  Established 1554  -  Disestablished 1872  -  1856[3]
503,000 km2 (194,209 sq mi) Today part of  Sudan  Saudi Arabia
Habesh Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت حبش; Eyālet-i Ḥabeš),[4]
was an Ottoman eyalet. It was also known as the Eyalet of Jeddah
and Habesh, as Jeddah was its chief town,[5] and Habesh and
Hejaz.[6] It extended on the areas of coastal Hejaz and Africa
that border on the Red Sea basin.[5] On the African side, it
comprised Massawa, Hirgigo, Suakin and their hinterlands.     In
1517, the Ottoman Turks conquered the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt
and Syria, during the reign of Selim I.[8] As such, territories
of the Sultanate including Jeddah and Mecca were controlled by
the Ottomans. Jeddah was then expanded for the purpose of
protecting the bo