Significant1585 – 1589 · 4 years

Mir Ali Bey's expeditions

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Mogadishu · Mombasa · Faza · Lamu

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Portuguese fleet trapped Mir Ali Bey's Ottoman corsair squadron at Mombasa while the cannibal Zimba sacked the city from the landward side.

Belligerents3

Ottoman Empire
Portuguese Empire
Zimba

ON THE MAPOttoman Empire

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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