Major conflict1961 – 1991 · 30 years

Eritrean War of Independence

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

Eritrea

Estimated casualties

150Ksingle estimate · no range published

Three-decade liberation struggle against Ethiopian rule, achieving independence in 1993 after protracted guerrilla warfare and becoming a model for African anti-colonial movements.

Belligerents3

Ethiopia
Eritrean People's Liberation Front
Eritrean movements

ON THE MAPEthiopian Empire

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 3

Battle of Massawa1977
Battle of Barentu1985
Battle of Assab1991

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1961 and opens this record.

Cite as: Eritrean War of Independence (1961 – 1991). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/eritrean-war-independence-1961 · Sources & methodology