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Portuguese sack of Kilwa (1505)

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Kilwa Kisiwani

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Almeida built the Gereza fort and installed a Portuguese puppet sultan at Kilwa, beginning Lusitanian rule on the Swahili coast.

Belligerents2

Portuguese Empire
Kilwa Sultanate

ON THE MAPKingdom of PortugalKilwa Sultanate

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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