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Battle of Jaffna

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 Jaffna (1619), part of the Later Portuguese Colonial Wars. Portugal defeated Jaffna.

Belligerents2

Portugal
Jaffna

Conflict graph

PART OFPortuguese-Swahili Conflicts

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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Cite as: Battle of Jaffna (1619). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-jaffna · Sources & methodology