World-changing1817 – 1893 · 76 years

Yoruba Civil Wars

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

Old Oyo · Ilorin · Ibadan · Abeokuta · Ekiti

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Umbrella for the century of inter-Yoruba conflict that destroyed Old Oyo and produced Ibadan, Abeokuta, and the Ekitiparapo confederation.

Belligerents6

Oyo Empire
Ilorin
Ibadan
Egba
Ijaye
Ekitiparapo

ON THE MAPOyo Empire

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 4

Owu War1821–25
Battle of Osogbo1840
Ijaye War1860–62
Kiriji War (Ekitiparapo)1877–93

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Yoruba Civil Wars (1817 – 1893). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/yoruba-civil-wars · Sources & methodology