Yemen Eyalet

Arabic: إيالة اليمن Ottoman Turkish: ایالت یمن
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
1517–1636 1849–1872
Flag
The Yemen Eyalet in 1609
Capital	Mokha[1]
Demonym	Yemeni
History
• Established	1517
• Disestablished	1872
Preceded by Succeeded by Mamluk Sultanate Qasimid State Qasimid State Yemen Vilayet
Today part of	Saudi Arabia Yemen

The Yemen Eyalet^[2] (Arabic: إيالة اليمن; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت یمن, romanized: Eyālet-i Yemen)^[3] was an eyalet (province) of the Ottoman Empire. 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 after a land reform in the empire.