Regional1503

Battle of Zanzibar

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

Tanzania

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Zanzibar (1503), part of the Portuguese Colonial Wars in Africa. Portugal defeated Zanzibar.

Belligerents2

Portugal
Zanzibar

ON THE MAPKingdom of Portugal

Conflict graph

PART OFPortuguese Expansion in Africa

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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Cite as: Battle of Zanzibar (1503). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-zanzibar · Sources & methodology