Egypt revived Turkish claims and occupied Somali coastal ports in the late 1860s

Evidence

By 1866 Turkey had transferred the Red Sea ports of Suakin and Massawa to the government of the Khedive Isma’il, and the latter claimed that this new jurisdiction also embraced the Somali coast. In the following year the governor of the Sudan visited the Red Sea ports and also Tajura, Zeila, and Berbera, seeking declarations of fealty from the local leaders. In 1869 an Egyptian vessel visited Berbera, and in the following year Muhammad Jamal Bey was sent to the Somali coast to raise the Egyptian flag at Bulhar and Berbera. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 142

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: By the mid-nineteenth century hinterland nomads controlled the Somali ports; Egypt obtained the Somali coast only through an 1875 firman, not earlier ones.; Ahmad Gran’s campaigns triggered Turkish coastal occupation and the Galla invasion — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 104

Related

• Egypt obtained the Somali coast only through an 1875 firman, not earlier ones. (similarity 0.90)
• By the mid-nineteenth century hinterland nomads controlled the Somali ports (similarity 0.90)
• Ahmad Gran’s campaigns triggered Turkish coastal occupation and the Galla invasion (similarity 0.81)
• The Mahdi’s revolt in Sudan forced Egypt’s 1884 evacuation of the Somali coast (similarity 0.78)