The former territory of Medri Bahri becomes…
1540 CE to 1683 CE
Massawa serves as the new province's first capital.
When the city becomes of secondary economical importance, the administrative capital is soon moved across the Red Sea to Jeddah.
Its headquarters will remain there from the end of the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century, with Medina temporarily serving as the capital in the eighteenth century.
The Ottomans are eventually driven out in the last quarter of the sixteenth century.
However, they will retain control over the seaboard until the establishment of Italian Eritrea in the late 1800s.
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