Regional1572

Battle of Ruwenya

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

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Ruwenya (1572), part of the Portuguese Colonial Wars in East Africa. Monomotapa defeated Portugal.

Belligerents2

Monomotapa
Portugal

ON THE MAPKingdom of Portugal

Conflict graph

PART OFPortuguese-Swahili 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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