History

In 1516, the Mamluk

Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)

The Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt was the final independent Egyptian state prior to the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in 1805. It lasted from the overthrow of the Ayyubid Dynasty until the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517. The sultanate's ruling caste was composed of Mamluks, Arabised...

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 Zaidi Imam, Qasim the Great

Al-Mansur al-Qasim

Al-Mansur al-Qasim , with the cognomen al-Kabir , was an Imam of Yemen, who commenced the struggle to liberate Yemen from the Ottoman occupiers...

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

From then until the 19th century, the Ottomans retained control only of isolated coastal areas, while the highlands generally were ruled by the Zaidi Imams. In the 1830s, aided by the collapse of the Zaidi Imamate due to internal division and the adoption of modern weaponry after the Crimean War

Crimean War

The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...

, the Ottomans regained control of northern Yemen.

Governors

Governors of the eyalet:

• Mustafa Sabri Pasha (May 1850 - Mar 1851)
• Mehmed Sirri Pasha (Mar 1851 - Oct 1851)
• Bonaparta Mustafa Pasha (Oct 1851 - May 1852)
• Kürt Mehmed Pasha (May 1852 - May 1856)
• Babanli Ahmed Pasha (1st time) (May 1856 - Dec 1862)
• Musullu Ali Yaver Pasha (Dec 1862 - Aug 1864)

Administrative divisions

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

1. Sanjak of Mokha
2. Sanjak of Eharish (Abu `Arish?)
3. Sanjak of Massu
   Massu
   Massu may refer to:*Jacques Massu , French general, who fought during World War II, First Indochina War and Algerian War.*Nicolás Massú , Chilean Olympic champion tennis player....