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Battle of Wayna Daga

Wayna Daga · Lake Tana

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Emperor Gelawdewos and the Portuguese survivors killed Imam Ahmad Gragn in battle, breaking Adal's invasion of Ethiopia.

Belligerents3

  • Ethiopian Empire
  • Portugal
  • Adal Sultanate

ON THE MAPEthiopian Empire (Medieval–Gondarine)Kingdom of PortugalAdal Sultanate

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Wayna Daga (1543). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-wayna-daga · Sources & methodology