Major conflict869 CE – 883 CE · 14 years

Zanj Rebellion (Iraq)

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Basra · Wasit · Khuzistan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Massive revolt of East African (Zanj) slaves in the Abbasid salt marshes of southern Iraq; included here as the largest East African-diaspora war of the medieval era.

Belligerents2

Abbasid Caliphate
Zanj

ON THE MAPAbbasid Caliphate

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Al-Mukhtara883 CE

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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