Regional1770 – 1880 · 110 years

Ovimbundu Trade Wars

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Bie · Bailundo · Viye

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Inter-kingdom warfare among the Ovimbundu plateau states of Bie, Bailundo, Wambu and others as they competed over the Benguela caravan trade with the interior.

Belligerents4

Bie
Bailundo
Wambu
Portuguese Empire

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Ovimbundu Trade Wars (1770 – 1880). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/ovimbundu-trade-wars · Sources & methodology