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Ḥabes̲h̲
(645 words)
, Ottoman name of a province covering the African coastlands of the Red Sea south of Egypt as far as the Gulf of Aden, and including also the
sand̲j̲aḳ of D̲j̲idda; the principal
sand̲j̲aḳs were Ibrīm, Sawākin, Arkiko, Maṣawwaʿ, Zaylaʿ and D̲j̲idda, so that its area corresponded approximately to the coastal districts of the present-day Sudan, Ethiopia, French Somaliland and the Zaylaʿ district of the Somali Republic. The province was founded with the intention of expelling the Portuguese, who, since the last years of the Mamlūk sultanate, had been endeavouring …
