Regional1591

Battle of Mannar

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 Mannar (1591), part of the Portuguese Colonial Wars in Asia. Portugal defeated Jaffna, Calicut.

Belligerents3

Portugal
Jaffna
Calicut

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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