It is also known as the Eyalet of Jeddah and Habesh, as Jeddah is its chief town, and Habesh and Hejaz.
It extends on the areas of coastal Hejaz and Northeast Africa that border the Red Sea basin.
On the Northeast African side, it comprises Massawa, Hirgigo, Suakin and their hinterlands.
Like Ottoman control in North Africa, Yemen, Bahrain, and Lahsa, the Ottomans have no "effective, long term control" outside of the ports where there was a direct Ottoman presence and garrison". (Özbaran, Salih (1994), The Ottoman Response to European Expansion: Studies on Ottoman-Portuguese Relations in the Indian Ocean and Ottoman Administration in the Arab Lands During the Sixteenth Century, Isis Press)
