page_title: War of succession
section_title: Africa
hierarchical_section_title: War of succession / List of wars of succession / Africa
caption_attribution_description: Alexander Mosaic (detail), House of the Faun, Pompeii
context_page_description: A war of succession or succession war is a war prompted by a succession crisis in which two or more individuals claim the right of successor to a deceased or deposed monarch. The rivals are typically supported by factions within the royal court. Foreign powers sometimes intervene, allying themselves with a faction. This may widen the war into one between those powers.
context_section_description:  Egypt
   West and North Africa
   Central and Southern Africa
   East Africa
  Ancient Egyptian wars of succession
  During the Second Dynasty, the Fourth (2649 BCE) and the Fifth (2513 and 2345 BCE)
  Between Seti II and Amenmesse (1204–1198 BCE) after the death of pharaoh Merneptah
  Wars of the Diadochi or Wars of Alexander's Successors (323–277 BCE), after the death of king Alexander the Great of Macedon
  Ptolemaic war of succession (132–124 BCE), between Cleopatra II and Ptolemy VIII Physcon over the rightful succession of Ptolemy VI Philometor
  Numidian war of succession (118–112 BCE), after the death of king Micipsa of Numidia; this spilled over into the Roman–Numidian Jugurthine War (112–106 BCE)
  Almohad war of succession (1224), after the death of caliph Yusuf al-Mustansir of the Almohad Caliphate
  Moroccan war of succession (1554), after the death of Sultan Ahmad of the Wattasid dynasty
  Moroccan war of succession (1574–1578), after the death of sultan Abdallah al-Ghalib of the Saadi dynasty
  Moroccan War of Succession (1603–1627)
  Revolutions of Tunis or the Muradid War of Succession (1675–1705), after the death of bey Murad II of Tunis
  Zulu war of succession (1839–1840), between the brothers Dingane and Mpande after the Battle of Blood River
  Ethiopian coup d'état of 1928 and Gugsa Wale's rebellion (1930), about the (future) succession of empress Zewditu of the Ethiopian Empire by Haile Selassie
caption: Alexander's diadochi battled about his political legacy for 46 years.
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