World-changing1624 – 1656 · 32 years

Portuguese-Njinga Wars

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

Ndongo · Matamba · Kindonga Islands · Kavanga

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Three decades of guerrilla and conventional warfare led by Queen Njinga Mbande against Portuguese Angola, ending with the 1656 peace treaty that recognised her sovereignty in Matamba.

Belligerents3

Ndongo
Matamba
Portuguese Empire

ON THE MAPKingdom of Ndongo

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 2

Battle of Mbanda Kasi1623
Battle of Kombi1647

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Portuguese-Njinga Wars (1624 – 1656). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/portuguese-njinga-wars · Sources & methodology