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Battle of Debra Sina

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Ethiopia

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Debra Sina (1887), part of the Sudanese-Ethiopian War. The Mahdiyya defeated Abyssinia.

Belligerents2

The Mahdiyya
Abyssinia

ON THE MAPEthiopian Empire (Menelik II Expansion)

Conflict graph

PART OFMahdist War in Ethiopia

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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