Regional1652

Battle of Zanzibar

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

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Zanzibar (1652), part of the Later Portuguese Wars in East Africa. Oman defeated Portugal.

Belligerents2

Oman
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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Cite as: Battle of Zanzibar (1652). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-zanzibar-1652 · Sources & methodology