World-changing1575 – 1671 · 96 years

Portuguese Conquest of Angola

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

Luanda · Massangano · Cambambe

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Century-long Portuguese campaign of conquest beginning with Paulo Dias de Novais's 1575 expedition and culminating with the destruction of Kongo at Mbwila and Soyo at Kitombo.

Belligerents4

Portuguese Empire
Ndongo
Kongo
Matamba

ON THE MAPKingdom of PortugalKingdom of NdongoKingdom of Kongo

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 2

Battle of Ambuila1665
Battle of Pungu-a-Ndongo1671

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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