battle, interwar and Second World War

Battle of Culqualber

Name: Battle of Culqualber
Start: 1941-08-06
Location: Ethiopia

Battle of Culqualber was a battle fought on 6 August 1941 in what is now Ethiopia; it lasted 4 months. It was part of the East African Campaign, which ran from 1940 to 1941. The recorded result: Allied victory.

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Fought6 August 1941lasted 4 months

WhereEthiopia12.600N, 37.467E

OutcomeAllied victory

Part ofEast African Campaign1940 to 1941

Where it sits in the East African Campaign

7 placed engagements of the East African Campaign in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	6 August 1941 to 21 November 1941
Place	Ethiopia 12.600N, 37.467E
Kind	Battle, interwar and Second World War

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Gondar 1941, same recorded site
Battle of Gur Amba 1852, 28 km SW
Battle of Faggeta 1769, 161 km SW
Battle of Amba Alagi 1895, 225 km E
Battle of Adwa 1896, 227 km NE

In the same war

Before: Siege of Saïo 25 March 1941
After: Battle of Gondar 13 November 1941
All 7 engagements of East African Campaign

Elsewhere in 1941

Operation Barbarossa Lithuania
Attack on Pearl Harbor United States
Siege of Leningrad Soviet Union
Battle of Moscow Soviet Union
Battle of Crete Greece

Battle of Culqualber is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 62 in present-day Ethiopia.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q3636413, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Culqualber, revision 1370109404, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.