Major conflict1557 – 1589 · 32 years

Ottoman–Ethiopian War (1557–1589)

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Massawa · Debarwa · Arqiqo

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Özdemir Pasha's seizure of Massawa, Arqiqo and Debarwa created the Habesh Eyalet; Sarsa Dengel finally drove the Ottomans back to the coast at Addi Qaro.

Belligerents2

Ottoman Empire
Ethiopian Empire

ON THE MAPOttoman EmpireEthiopian Empire (Medieval–Gondarine)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Addi Qaro1578

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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