Regional1538 – 1547 · 9 years

Ottoman Conquest of Yemen

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Yemen · Arabian Peninsula · Red Sea

Estimated casualties

100Ksingle estimate · no range published

Ottoman forces conquered Yemen, establishing Ottoman control over the Red Sea and Indian Ocean approaches. Ottoman rule of Yemen lasted until the 20th century.

Belligerents3

Ottoman Empire
Zaidi Imams
Yemen

ON THE MAPOttoman Empire

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Ottoman Conquest of Yemen (1538 – 1547). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/ottoman-conquest-yemen · Sources & methodology