World-changing1590 – 1599 · 9 years

Saadian Invasion of Songhai

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

Niger Bend · Timbuktu · Gao · Djenné · Tondibi · Djenne

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur's trans-Saharan invasion that toppled Songhai and established the Pashalik of Timbuktu.

Belligerents2

Saadi Sultanate
Songhai Empire

ON THE MAPSonghai Empire

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Tondibi1591

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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