Significant1589 – 1592 · 3 years

Zimba Raids

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Zambezi delta · Sena · Tete · Kilwa · Mombasa

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Northward sweep of the Zimba war-bands from the Lower Zambezi up the Swahili coast, sacking Kilwa and besieging Mombasa.

Belligerents3

Zimba
Portuguese Empire
Swahili city-states

Conflict graph

PART OFSwahili City-States Conflicts

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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