Ottoman conquest of Habesh
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Was an Ottoman military campaign in modern-day Eritrea.
Chronology
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January 1573: Medri Bahri returned Massawa, Arqiqo, Debarwa, and Hirgigo to the Ottomans as a result of an earlier agreement.
January 1558: Özdemir Pasha took the port city of Massawa and the adjacent city of Arqiqo, even taking Debarwa.
January 1558: The Ottoman force was attacked and defeated by the local peasants in Massawa.
January 1573: The Ottomans withdrew from Debarwa in 1572, which Yeshaq of Medri Bahri quickly occupied.
January 1580: Ethiopian emperor Sarsa Dengel retook Debarwa.
January 1562: The Bahr negash Yeshaq had bad relations with Emperor Menas, who had just assumed the throne, so in 1561 he revolted against Menas, but the following year he was defeated in battle. Yeshaq then fled to the Ottomans and promised to cede them Debarwa, Massawa, Arqiqo, and all the land in between in return for their help.
