Regional1076

Battle of Kumbi

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Mauritania

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Kumbi (1076), part of the Fall of Ghana. Almoravids defeated Ghanaian Empire.

Belligerents2

Almoravids
Ghanaian Empire

ON THE MAPAlmoravid Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFGhana Empire 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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