Regional1820 – 1890 · 70 years

Nyamwezi caravan wars

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Unyamwezi · Tabora · Ujiji

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Nineteenth-century conflicts among Nyamwezi chiefs, Arab caravan traders and the Mirambo confederation along the central caravan route to Lake Tanganyika.

Belligerents2

Nyamwezi chiefdoms
Arab caravan traders

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Nyamwezi caravan wars (1820 – 1890). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/nyamwezi-caravan-wars · Sources & methodology