Regional1587

Battle of Colombo

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Sri Lanka

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Colombo (1587), part of the Portuguese Colonial Wars in Asia. Portugal defeated Sitavaka.

Belligerents2

Portugal
Sitavaka

Conflict graph

PART OFPortuguese colonial wars in Asia

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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