Significant1828 – 1838 · 10 years

Soshangane's Conquest of Gaza

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

southern Mozambique · Limpopo valley

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

The wars by which the Nguni leader Soshangane, fleeing the rise of Shaka, subjugated the Tsonga and Tonga peoples of southern Mozambique to found the Gaza Empire during the Mfecane diaspora.

Belligerents2

Gaza Nguni (Soshangane)
Tsonga and Tonga chiefdoms

Conflict graph

PART OFMfecane

Sources

Wikipedia: Gaza Empire
Histories of the Mfecane and the Nguni diaspora
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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