Significant1904 – 1908 · 4 years

Herero Wars

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Namibia · South Africa

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

German colonial war against the Herero and Nama in South West Africa, accompanied by genocide.

Belligerents6

Germany
Nama Tribe
Herero Rebels
Hereros
Nama
Herero Tribes

ON THE MAPGerman Empire

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 9

Battle of Freyers Farm1904
Battle of Naris1904
Battle of Okaharui1904
Battle of Onganjira1904
Battle of Oviumbo1904
Battle of Owikokorero1904
Battle of Hartebeestmund1905
Battle of Vaalgras1905
Battle of Van Rooisvlei1906

Sources

Derived from HCED child battles; see Wikipedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Herero Wars (1904 – 1908). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/herero-wars · Sources & methodology