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Major conflict1600 – 1650 · 50 years

Imbangala Invasions

Kwanza Valley · Kasanje · Matamba

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Series of campaigns by the Imbangala warrior bands across the Angolan plateau that destabilised Ndongo and supplied slaves to Portuguese Luanda, eventually settling as the Kasanje kingdom.

Belligerents3

  • Imbangala
  • Ndongo
  • Portuguese Empire

ON THE MAPKingdom of Ndongo

Sources

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

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