What the records say
- When
- 3 Mar 1543
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 12.00° N, 37.25° E
- Description
- 1543 battle
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Wayna Daga
Major battle of the Ethiopian-Adal war
The Battle of Wayna Daga was a large-scale battle between the Ethiopian forces and the Portuguese Empire and the forces of the Adal Sultanate and the Ottoman Empire in the east of Lake Tana in Ethiopia on 21 February 1543. The available sources give different dates for the battle.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Wayna Daga: A joint Ethiopian-Portuguese force of 8,500, under Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Schlacht von Wayna Daga besiegt ein portugiesisch-äthiopisches Heer Truppen des muslimischen Sultanats Adal”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les troupes d'Ahmed Gragne sont surprises et décimées par l’empereur d'Éthiopie Claude à la bataille de Wayna Daga, près du lac Tana”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “las fuerzas etíopes y las portuguesas libran la batalla de Wayna Daga contra los otomanos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page