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Kongo Civil War of 1506

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

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Succession war in which the Christian prince Mvemba a Nzinga (Afonso I) defeated his pagan half-brother Mpanzu a Kitima at the Battle of Mbanza Kongo, securing the throne and the Portuguese alliance.

Belligerents1

Kingdom of Kongo

ON THE MAPKingdom of Kongo

Conflict graph

PART OFKongo-Portuguese Conflicts

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Kongo Civil War of 1506 (1506). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/kongo-civil-war-of-1506 · Sources & methodology