Was Kuwait part of the Ottoman Empire?

Yes, from around 1555 during the reign of Suleiman the Lawgiver and the Ottoman conquest of the Jabrid Emirate of Al Hasa, until 1670 when the Bani Khalid expelled the Ottomans and their governor from Mubarazz the administrative capital of what the Ottomans called the “Lahsa Eyalet”. read more

In the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, the British concurred with the Ottoman Empire in defining Kuwait as an autonomous kaza of the Ottoman Empire and that the Shaikhs of Kuwait were not independent leaders, but rather qaimmaqams (provincial sub-governors) of the Ottoman government. read more

However, Kuwait as a result was spared annexation by the Ottomans and managed to retain its independence and tended to have a positive relationship with the Ottoman Empire until 1896 when Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah seized the Emirate in Kuwait. read more

The Kuwait-Najd War erupted in the Aftermath of World War I, when the Ottoman Empire was defeated and the British invalidated the Anglo-Ottoman Convention, declaring Kuwait to be an "independent sheikhdom under British protectorate". read more