Significant1590

Battle of the Lukala

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Lukala River

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Decisive defeat of governor Luis Serrao's Portuguese-Imbangala column by a Ndongo-Matamba coalition that halted Portuguese expansion for a generation.

Belligerents3

Portuguese Empire
Ndongo
Matamba

ON THE MAPKingdom of Ndongo

Conflict graph

PART OFKongo-Portuguese Conflicts

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of the Lukala (1590). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-the-lukala · Sources & methodology