Major conflict570 CE

Abraha's expedition against Mecca

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Mecca · Hijaz

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Abraha's elephant-led march on Mecca, defeated by plague according to Surat al-Fil, traditionally dated to the Year of the Elephant.

Belligerents2

Aksumite Himyar
Quraysh

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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