Hotels in Hodaida

Al Hudaydah is the fourth largest city in Yemen with a population 400,000 people, and the centre of Al Hudaydah Governorate. The city is also known as Hodeida.Situated on the Red Sea, it is an important port, exporting coffee, cotton, dates, and hides. It was developed as a seaport in the mid-19th century by the Ottoman Turks.In 1914 during the First World War German troops led by Major Freiherr Othmar von Stotzingen established a wireless station at Al Hudaydah which was used during the Arab Revolt to relay communications from Istanbul to German East Africa as well as broadcast propaganda to the Sudan, Somaliland and Abyssinia.The city was briefly occupied by Saudi forces during the Saudi–Yemeni War of 1934.