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Battle of Massangano

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

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Portuguese victory over Ndongo forces on the Kwanza River that secured the inland presidio of Massangano as the base for further conquest.

Belligerents2

Portuguese Empire
Ndongo

ON THE MAPKingdom of Ndongo

Conflict graph

PART OFKongo-Portuguese Conflicts

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Cite as: Battle of Massangano (1583). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-massangano · Sources & methodology