Lugalo

{{Short description|Village in Iringa Region, Tanzania}} [[File:Lugalo German Monument.jpg|thumb|upright|Monument erected by the Germans after the battle]] '''Lugalo''' is a village in [[Tanzania]] near [[Iringa]] which in 1891 was the site of a battle in which a [[German East Africa|German colonial]] military force under [[Emil von Zelewski]] was decisively defeated and almost annihilated by the [[Hehe people|Hehe]] army of [[Chief Mkwawa]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dh6jydKXikoC&pg=PA604|title=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O|last=Jaques|first=Tony|date=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313335389|pages=604|language=en}}</ref> This was the first major defeat for the German [[Schutztruppe]] and the beginning of the Hehe wars.

A German monument marks the site next to the modern [[Tanzam Highway|TANZAM highway]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ItYNAKuoFskC&pg=PA64|title=An Academic Skating on Thin Ice|last=Worsley|first=Peter|date=2008|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=9781845453701|pages=64|language=en}}</ref> ==See also== *[[German East Africa]]

== {{coord|7.7372|S|35.8779|E|source:dewiki_region:TZ_type:city|format=dms|display=title}}References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:Populated places in Iringa Region]] [[Category:Villages in Tanzania]]