Major conflict1885 – 1889 · 4 years

Mahdist War in Ethiopia

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Metemma · Gallabat · Dembiya

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Yohannes IV's wars against the Sudanese Mahdists climaxed in his death at the Battle of Gallabat/Metemma in March 1889.

Belligerents2

Ethiopian Empire
Mahdist State

ON THE MAPEthiopian Empire (Menelik II Expansion)

Conflict graph

PART OFMahdist War

SUB-CONFLICTS · 2

Battle of Kufit1885
Battle of Debra Sina1887

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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