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Battle of Mombasa

Kenya

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Mombasa (1589), part of the Portuguese Colonial Wars in East Africa. Portugal defeated Mombassa, Turkey.

Belligerents3

  • Portugal
  • Mombassa
  • Ottoman Empire

ON THE MAPOttoman Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFPortuguese-Swahili Conflicts

Sources

  1. HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
  2. Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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