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Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast and ...

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(province) of the

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. Although formally an integral part of the empire, the far-flung province was notoriously difficult to administer, and was often lawless. During the early 17th century, the Eyalet was entirely lost to the Yemeni Zaidi State, only to be recovered by the Ottomans two centuries later. The Yemen Eyalet was reorganized in 1849, upon Ottoman takeover of much of Greater Yemen territories. In 1872, most of it became

Yemen Vilayet ota, ولايت یمن , common_name = Yemen Vilayet , subdivision = Vilayet , nation = the Ottoman Empire , year_start = 1872 , year_end = 1918 , date_start = , ...

after a land reform in the empire.

History

In 1516, the

Mamluk Mamluk ( ar, مملوك, mamlūk (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural), translated as "one who is owned", meaning " slave", also transliterated as ''Mameluke'', ''mamluq'', ''mamluke'', ''mameluk'', ''mameluke'', ''mamaluke'', or ''marmeluke'') ...

s of Egypt annexed Yemen; but in the following year, the Mamluk governor surrendered to the Ottomans, and Turkish armies subsequently overran the country. They were challenged by the

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, Qasim the Great (r. 1597–1620), and by 1636, the Zaydi tribesmen had driven the Ottomans out of the country completely.

Governors

;First Ottoman period * Mustafa Pasha al-Nashshar (1539/40–1549) * Özdemir Pasha (1549–1554) * Mustafa Pasha al-Nashshar (1554–1555/56) * Kara Shahin Mustafa Pasha (1556–1560) * Mahmud Pasha (1561–1565) *

Ridwan Pasha Riḍwān ibn Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAbd al-Muʿīn Pasha ( Turkish transliteration: ''Ridvan Pasha''; died 2 April 1585) was a 16th-century Ottoman statesman. He served terms as governor of Gaza in the early 1560s and in 1570–1573, Yemen in 1564/ ...

(1565–1567) *

Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha ( ota, اوزدمیر اوغلی عثمان‌ پاشا, lit=Osman Pasha, the son of Özdemir; 1526 – 29 October 1585) was an Ottoman statesman and military commander who also held the office of grand vizier for one ...

(1569–1573) * Murad Pasha (1576–1580) * Hasan Pasha (1580–1604) * Ja'far Pasha (1607–1616) * Mehmed Pasha (1616–1621) * Ahmad Fadli Pasha (1622–1624) * Haydar Pasha (1624–1629) * Aydin Pasha (1628–1630) *

Qansuh Pasha Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri ( ar, الأشرف قانصوه الغوري) or Qansuh II al-Ghawri (c. 1441/1446 – 24 August 1516) was the second-to-last of the Mamluk Sultans. One of the last and most powerful of the Burji dynasty, he reigned fr ...

(1629–1635) ;Second Ottoman periodWorld Statesmen — Yemen
/ref> * Mustafa Sabri Pasha (May 1850–March 1851) * Mehmed Sirri Pasha (March 1851–October 1851) * Bonaparta Mustafa Pasha (October 1851–May 1852) * Kürt Mehmed Pasha (May 1852–May 1856) * Babanli Ahmed Pasha (1st time) (May 1856–December 1862) * Musullu Ali Yaver Pasha (December 1862–August 1864) * Babanli Ahmed Pasha (August 1864–February 1867) * Tacirli Ahmed Pasha (February 1867–March 1869) * Halepli Ali Pasha (March 1869–May 1871) * Topal Bursali Mehmed Redif Pasha (May 1871–August 1871) ;Succeeded by the

Yemen Vilayet ota, ولايت یمن , common_name = Yemen Vilayet , subdivision = Vilayet , nation = the Ottoman Empire , year_start = 1872 , year_end = 1918 , date_start = , ...

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of the Eyalet in the mid-19th century: # Sanjak of

# Sanjak of Eharish (

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?) # Sanjak of Massu

References

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History

Governors

Administrative divisions

See also

References