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Battle of Maungwe

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Maungwe · northeastern Zimbabwe

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

In 1684 the Rozvi ruler Changamire Dombo defeated a Portuguese musketeer force and African auxiliaries at Maungwe, a landmark victory that checked Portuguese penetration of the Zimbabwe plateau and built Rozvi dominance.

Belligerents2

Rozvi (Changamire Dombo)
Portuguese Empire and allies

Sources

Wikipedia: Changamire Dombo
Wikipedia: Mutapa Empire
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Maungwe (1684). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-maungwe · Sources & methodology