In 1174, Saladin sent Turan-Shah to conquer Yemen to allocate it and its port Aden to the territories of the Ayyubid Dynasty.

In 1173, Saladin sent Turan-Shah to conquer Yemen and the Hejaz.

However, when Turan-Shah was transferred from his governor post in Yemen in 1176, uprisings broke out in the territory and were not quelled until 1182 when Saladin assigned his other brother Tughtekin Sayf al-Islam as governor of Yemen.

He allowed for Saladin's elder brother Turan-Shah to supervise Saladin in order to cause dissension within the Ayyubid family, undermining its position in Egypt.

The reinforcements had come after the Nubians already departed, but under Turan-Shah the Ayyubid forces advanced and conquered northern Nubia after capturing the town of Ibrim.

Ayyub's son and the newly proclaimed Ayyubid sultan Al-Mu ' azzam Turan-Shah reached Mansurah at this point and intensified the battle against the Crusaders.

Saladin consolidated his control in Egypt after ordering Turan-Shah to put down a revolt in Cairo staged by the Fatimid army's 50, 000-strong Nubian regiments.

Saladin himself resided in the former Fatimid vizier palace, Turan-Shah took up a former Fatimid prince's living quarter, and their father occupied the Pearl Pavilion which was situated outside of Cairo overlooking the city's canal.

After his withdrawal, Saladin reorganized his armies in Egypt with the assistance of his brother Turan-Shah and received the ambassador of the powerful Kilij Arslan.

The emir of the city had requested Saladin's assistance and was given reinforcements under Turan-Shah — Saladin's brother.

In the summer of 1181, Saladin's former palace administrator Qara-Qush led a force to arrest Majd al-Din — a former deputy of Turan-Shah in the Yemeni town of Zabid — while he was entertaining Imad ad-Din at his estate in Cairo.

Turan-Shah and his Kurdish soldiers temporarily resided there.

In May 1174, Turan-Shah first conquered Zabid from a Kharijite dynasty and executed its leader Mahdi Abd al-Nabi and later that year Aden was taken from the Shia Banu Karam tribe.

Turan-Shah drove out the Hamdanid rulers of Sana ' a, conquering the mountainous city in 1175.

Al-Mu ' azzam Turan-Shah alienated the Mamluks soon after their victory at Mansurah and constantly threatened them and Shajar al-Durr.

An-Nasir Yusuf's army was much larger and better-equipped than that of the Egyptian army, consisting of the forces of Aleppo, Homs, Hama, and those of Saladin's only surviving sons, Nusrat ad-Din and Turan-Shah ibn Salah ad-Din.

The area was occupied by Saladin's brother, al-Malik al-Mu ' azzam Shams ad-Dawla Turanshah ( Turan-Shah ) from 1172 to 1174, but the Ayyubids withdrew a few years later.

Outraged, Kaleb, the Christian King of Aksum with the encouragement of the Byzantine Emperor Justin I invaded and annexed Yemen.

In 1516, the Mamluks of Egypt annexed Yemen ; but in the following year, the Mamluk governor surrendered to the Ottomans, and Turkish armies subsequently overran the country.

The Qu ' aiti sultans ruled the vast majority of Hadramaut, under a loose British protectorate, the Aden Protectorate, from 1882 to 1967, when the Hadhramaut was annexed by South Yemen.

In short, though historically a part of Yemen since ancient times, it was annexed by Saudi Arabia. indeed, there was a strong treaty between King Abdulaziz and the people from Najran indicates conditions that have to be respected by the both sides.

In the east the Empire was overrun by the Seljuk Turks ; from the north Bulgarians and Vlachs descended unchecked to ravage the plains of Macedonia and Thrace, and Kaloyan of Bulgaria annexed several important cities, while Alexios squandered the public treasure on his palaces and gardens and attempted to deal with the crisis through diplomatic means.

In 1214, the Hungarian troops annexed Belgrade and Braničevo from the Bulgarian Empire.

During his reign, the Empire annexed the Kingdom of Mauretania and made it into a province.

The U. S. bought Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867, and it annexed the Republic of Hawaii in 1898.

The said ruler's nation logically becomes an " Empire ", despite having no additional territory or hegemony such as Central African Empire or the Korean Empire proclaimed in 1897 when Korea, far from gaining new territory, was on the verge of being annexed by the Empire of Japan, the last to use the name officially.

Finland was a part of the Russian Empire for 108 years, after being annexed from the Swedish empire.

The Saxons and Avars were eventually overwhelmed, the people were forcibly converted to Christianity, and the lands were annexed by the Carolingian Empire.

Hamburg was briefly annexed by Napoleon I to the First French Empire ( 1810 – 14 ).

Taking advantage of the Ottoman internal turmoil, Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Bulgaria declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Under the government's management, proper usage of Hangul and Hanja, including orthography, was discussed, until Korean Empire was annexed by Japan in 1910.

All of the European colonies on the Indian subcontinent which were not part of the British Raj have been annexed by the Republic of India since it gained its independence from the British Empire.

Starting in the 16th c. parts of Kazakhstan were annexed by the Russian Empire, and what remained was gradually absorbed into Russian Turkestan, starting in 1867.

In the early 19th century, the territory of Kyrgyzstan came under the control of the Khanate of Kokand, but the territory was occupied and formally annexed by the Russian Empire in 1876.

In 1809, Lazio was annexed to the French Empire, but returned under the Pope in 1815.

In 1812, following one of several Russian-Turkish wars, the eastern half of the principality, Bessarabia ( where most of today's Moldova is located ), was annexed by the Russian Empire.

But after the fall of Carthage, the area was annexed to the Roman Empire in AD 40.

The Anatolian states that had been constantly plotting against him — Aydinids, Germiyanids, Menteshe and Teke — were annexed and henceforth became part of the Ottoman Empire.

The French took the city one last time in 1794, when the condominium was dissolved and Maastricht was annexed to the First French Empire.

Under the Umayyads, the Arabs annexed North Africa and southern Italy from the Romans and the Arab Empire soon stretched from parts of the Indian subcontinent, across Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and southern Italy, to the Iberian Peninsula and the Pyrenees.

The Korean peninsula was governed by the Korean Empire from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, until it was annexed by the Empire of Japan in 1910.

His general Suetonius Paulinus crushed a revolt in Britain and also annexed the Bosporan Kingdom to the Empire, beginning the First Roman – Jewish War.