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Major conflict1568 – 1574 · 6 years

Jaga Invasion of Kongo

Mbanza Kongo · Lower Congo

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Devastating invasion by the Jaga that drove King Alvaro I from Mbanza Kongo and was reversed only by a Portuguese expeditionary force under Francisco de Gouveia Sottomaior in 1574.

Belligerents2

  • Kingdom of Kongo
  • Portuguese Empire

ON THE MAPKingdom of KongoKingdom of Portugal

Conflict graph

PART OFKongo-Portuguese Conflicts

Sources

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

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