Major conflict1500 – 1600 · 100 years

Portuguese Expansion in Africa

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

Mozambique · East Africa · West Africa · Congo

Estimated casualties

500Ksingle estimate · no range published

Portuguese explorers and traders established coastal fortresses and trading posts across Africa, beginning European colonization of the continent. Portuguese naval superiority allowed them to dominate African coastal trade for two centuries.

Belligerents4

Portugal
Swahili States
Kingdom of Congo
Bantu peoples

ON THE MAPKingdom of Portugal

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 4

Battle of Zanzibar1503
Battle of Aden1513
Battle of Sao Salvador1574
Battle of Balane1594

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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