Realm · approximate borders · 1728–1838

Sultanate of Lahej

The Abdali sultanate of Lahej, self-ruling from 1728 and independent of the Zaydi imams from 1740; it held Aden until the British took it in January 1839, after which Lahej entered the Aden Protectorate. Sources: Wikipedia 'Sultanate of Lahej'.

See Sultanate of Lahej on the map in 1728

On the map: 1728–1838
Capital: al-Hawta (Lahej)

Rulers named in the sources

Fadl ibn Ali al-Abdali 1728–1742
Abd al-Karim ibn Fadl 1742–1753
Ahmad ibn Abd al-Karim 1791–1827
Muhsin ibn Fadl 1827–1847

States of the Middle East, 2400 BCE–1886

Among the smaller states of Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Iran and the South Caucasus were Bronze and Iron Age kingdoms (Ebla, Mari, Yamhad, Kizzuwatna, Arzawa, Ugarit, Aram-Damascus, Ammon, Moab, Edom, Mannaea), the city-kingdoms of Cyprus, Characene, Elymais, Hatra, Kinda and Muhammad's state at Medina; the Caucasian kingdoms and emirates of the 9th–12th centuries (Tbilisi, Lori, Kakheti-Hereti, Syunik, Kars) and the dynasties of the 'Iranian intermezzo' (Sallarids, Rawwadids, Hasanwayhids, Kakuyids, Marwanids, Uqaylids, Mirdasids, Mazyadids, Ikhshidids); the Burids of Damascus, the Nizari Ismaili castles, the atabegs of Azerbaijan, Fars, Luristan and Kerman; the eastern Anatolian beyliks (Saltukids, Mengujekids, Shah-Armens, Artuqids, Eretnids, Kadi Burhan al-Din, Erzincan, Tacettin, Lâdik, Alaiye); the Mamluk pashas of Baghdad; Arabian states from the Sulayhids to the Jabrids, Bani Khalid, Kathiri, Mahra and Lahej; and the South Caucasus khanates of 1747–1828. Few pre-modern sources describe frontiers.