Significant1568 – 1575 · 7 years

Portuguese-Mutapa War (1568-1575)

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Zambezi Valley · Sena · Tete · Mutapa · Mutapa heartland

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Francisco Barreto's failed Portuguese expedition up the Zambezi to seize the gold mines of Mutapa, recounted by Beach and Newitt as the opening Portuguese intervention.

Belligerents2

Portuguese Empire
Mutapa Empire

ON THE MAPKingdom of PortugalMutapa Empire

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Massapa1572

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Portuguese-Mutapa War (1568-1575) (1568 – 1575). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/portuguese-mutapa-war-1568-1575 · Sources & methodology