Major conflict1505 – 1700 · 195 years

Portuguese-Swahili Conflicts

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Swahili Coast · Zanzibar · Mombasa · East Africa

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Conflicts over control of East African trade routes between Portuguese colonizers and Swahili traders.

Belligerents2

Swahili city-states
Portugal

ON THE MAPKingdom of Portugal

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 5

Battle of Ruwenya1572
Battle of Mombasa1589
Battle of Jaffna1619
Battle of Zanzibar1652
Battle of Mahungwe1684

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Portuguese-Swahili Conflicts (1505 – 1700). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/portuguese-swahili-conflicts · Sources & methodology