List of wars involving Croatia

The following is an incomplete list of wars fought by Croatia, by Croatian people or regular armies during periods when independent Croatian states existed, from the Early Middle Ages to the present day. The list gives the name, the date, combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:

Seal of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia
  Croatian victory
  Croatian defeat
  Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive)

Duchy of Croatia (7th century–925) edit

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
7th century–925 Croatian–Venetian wars Narentines
Duchy of Croatia
  Republic of Venice Intermittent victories and defeats
799 Siege of Trsat Duchy of Croatia Francia Victory
846–848 Croatian-Byzantine War Duchy of Croatia Zadar under the Byzantine strategos Victory
854 First Bulgarian-Croatian War Duchy of Croatia   First Bulgarian Empire Peace agreement
871 Conquest of Bari   Holy Roman Empire
  Lombard principalities

Duchy of Croatia (Croatian fleet)

Emirate of Bari Victory

Kingdom of Croatia (925–1102) edit

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
c. 925 Hungarian Invasions of Croatia   Kingdom of Croatia Hungarian tribes Victory
925–931 Second Croatian-Bulgarian War   Kingdom of Croatia   First Bulgarian Empire Victory
968–1018 Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria   Byzantine Empire
  Kievan Rus' (until 969)
  Kingdom of Hungary
  Kingdom of Croatia

Principality of Duklja

  First Bulgarian Empire
  Kievan Rus' (970–971)
Pechenegs
Victory
997–1000 Third Croatian-Bulgarian War   Kingdom of Croatia   First Bulgarian Empire Victory
c. 1040–1185 Byzantine–Norman wars   Kingdom of France
  Kingdom of Sicily
  Lombard duchies
  Papal States

  Kingdom of Croatia   Raška and Duklja

  Byzantine Empire
  Republic of Venice
  Holy Roman Empire
Victory
1091–1102 War of the Croatian Succession   Kingdom of Croatia   Kingdom of Hungary Defeat

Croatia in personal union with Hungary (1102–1527) edit

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1108 Hungarian war with the Holy Roman Empire   Kingdom of Hungary

  Kingdom of Croatia

  Holy Roman Empire
  Duchy of Bohemia
Victory
1108–1126 Hungarian-Bohemian wars   Kingdom of Hungary

  Kingdom of Croatia

  Duchy of Bohemia Peace agreement
1115–1119 Croatian-Venetian War   Kingdom of Hungary

  Kingdom of Croatia

  Republic of Venice Defeat
1123 Stephen II's intervention in the Kievan Rus' internal conflict   Kingdom of Hungary
Iaroslav Sviatopolkovich
  Kievan Rus' Hungarian withdrawal
1124–1125 Croatian-Venetian War   Kingdom of Hungary

  Kingdom of Croatia

  Republic of Venice Defeat
1127–1129 Byzantine-Hungarian War   Kingdom of Hungary
Grand Principality of Serbia
  Byzantine Empire Peace agreement
1132 Hungarian-Polish War   Kingdom of Hungary
  Margraviate of Austria
  Kingdom of Poland Victory
1136–1137 Béla II's Balkan campaigns against Venice and the Byzantine Empire   Kingdom of Hungary

  Kingdom of Croatia

  Byzantine Empire

  Republic of Venice

Victory
1146 German-Hungarian War   Kingdom of Hungary   Duchy of Bavaria
  Margraviate of Austria
Victory
1149–1152 Géza II's intervention in the conflict between the Principality of Halych and Kievan Rus'   Kingdom of Hungary
  Kievan Rus'
  Principality of Halych Peace agreement
1148–1155 Hungarian-Byzantine wars   Kingdom of Hungary
Grand Principality of Serbia
  Byzantine Empire Ceasefire
1162–1165 Hungarian civil war between Stephen III and his uncles Ladislaus and Stephen   Kingdom of Hungary
  Holy Roman Empire
Ladislaus and Stephen's army

  Byzantine Empire

Stephen III's victory
1180–1185 Hungarian-Byzantine war   Kingdom of Hungary   Byzantine Empire Victory
1188–1189 Béla III's military campaign against Halych   Kingdom of Hungary   Principality of Halych Victory
1197–1199 Civil war between Emeric king and his brother Andrew II   Kingdom of Hungary

  Kingdom of Croatia

Andrew II's army Emeric's victory
1201–1205 Emeric's Balkan wars   Kingdom of Hungary

  Kingdom of Croatia

  Second Bulgarian Empire
  Banate of Bosnia

Grand Principality of Serbia

Croatian/Hungarian victories
1202–1204 Fourth Crusade   Kingdom of Hungary

  Kingdom of Croatia

Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade
  Republic of Venice
Defeat
1217–1218 Andrew II's participation in the Fifth crusade   Kingdom of Hungary

  Kingdom of Croatia Archduchy of Austria
  Latin Empire

  Ayyubids Croatian/Hungarian withdrawal
1235–1241 Bosnian Crusade   Coloman of Galicia   Banate of Bosnia Status quo ante bellum
1241–1242 First Mongol invasion of Hungary   Kingdom of Hungary

  Kingdom of Croatia

Mongols Mongol withdrawal
1243 Venetian War for Zadar   Kingdom of Hungary

  Kingdom of Croatia

  Republic of Venice Defeat
1250–1278 Hungarian-Bohemian wars   Kingdom of Hungary
  Holy Roman Empire
  Kingdom of Bohemia
  Duchy of Austria
Victory
1264–1265 Internal conflict between Béla IV and his son Stephen V   Kingdom of Hungary

  Kingdom of Croatia

Stephen V's army Stephen V's victory
  • Stephen V gets Eastern Hungary as a duchy
1268 Mačva War   Béla IV of Hungary   Kingdom of Serbia Peace agreement
1272–1279 Feudal anarchy   Ladislaus IV king of Hungary
Csák family
Kőszegi family
Gutkeled family
Royal victory
1277 Stefan Dragutin-Stefan Uroš I conflict Stefan Dragutin
  Kingdom of Hungary
Stefan Uroš I Stefan Dragutin's victory
1277 Hungary's war with the Vlach ruler Litovoi   Kingdom of Hungary Litovoi's army Victory
1282 Cuman uprising   Kingdom of Hungary Cumans Victory
1285–1286 Second Mongol invasion of Hungary   Kingdom of Hungary   Golden Horde Victory
1291 German-Hungarian War   Kingdom of Hungary   Holy Roman Empire Victory
1292–1300 Andrew III's war with the Kőszegi family   Kingdom of Hungary Kőszegi family Andrew III's victory
1301–1308 Hungarian interregnum, struggles for the country's throne   Charles of Anjou
  Kingdom of Croatia

  Duchy of Austria
Máté Csák's army
László Kán's army

  Kingdom of Bohemia
  Duchy of Bavaria
Kőszegi family
Victory
  • Charles I becomes Croatian and Hungarian king
1310–1321 Charles I's wars for centralizing power against Croatian and Hungarian aristocracy   Kingdom of Hungary Máté Csák Royal victory
  • Centralization of the Hungarian Kingdom
1322 Feudal and dynastic conflicts in Croatia Coalition of Croatian noblemen and Dalmatian coastal towns with support of the royal forces of king Charles I Robert Mladen II Šubić of Bribir and his allies Defeat of Mladen II
1322–1337 Hungarian-Austrian War   Kingdom of Hungary   Duchy of Austria
  Holy Roman Empire
Kőszegi family
Babonić family
Status quo ante bellum
1321–1324 Hungarian-Serbian War   Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Bosnia
Stephen Vladislav II of Syrmia
  Kingdom of Serbia Defeat
1330 Hungarian-Wallachian War   Kingdom of Hungary   Wallachia Hungarian defeat at the battle of Posada
1347–1349

1350–1352

Neapolitan campaigns of Louis the Great   Kingdom of Hungary

 Kingdom of Croatia

  Kingdom of Naples First campaign: Croatian/Hungarian victory
Second campaign: Status quo ante bellum
1345–1358 Croatian-Venetian War   Kingdom of Hungary

 Kingdom of Croatia

  Republic of Venice Victory
1345 Hungarian war with the Golden Horde for Moldavia   Kingdom of Hungary  Golden Horde Victory
  • Liberation of Moldavia under Mongol rule
1360–1369 Louis I's Balkan wars against Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia and Bosnia   Kingdom of Hungary   Serbian Empire
  Second Bulgarian Empire

  Wallachia
  Kingdom of Bosnia

Temporary Hungarian victories
1372–1381 War of Chioggia   Padua
  Kingdom of Hungary
  Republic of Genoa
  Duchy of Austria
  Republic of Venice
  Milan
  Ottoman Empire
  Kingdom of Cyprus
Paduan military victory, practically status quo ante bellum
1384–1394 Civil war between a part of the Hungarian nobility and Mary, Queen of Hungary and Emperor Sigismund   Kingdom of Hungary Horváti family

  Kingdom of Naples

Emperor Sigismund's victory
1366–1526 Ottoman–Hungarian wars   Kingdom of Hungary

  Kingdom of Croatia

  Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

  Wallachia

  Moldavia

  Serbian Despotate

  Ottoman Empire
  Moravian Serbia
Defeat
1411–1433 Croatian-Venetian War   Kingdom of Hungary
  Kingdom of Croatia

  Duchy of Milan

  Republic of Venice Defeat
1419–1434 Hussite Wars   Holy Roman Empire
  Kingdom of Hungary
Hussites Victory
1428–1432 War of the South Danube   Kingdom of Hungary
  Wallachia
  Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  Ottoman Empire Ceasefire
1437–1442 Hungarian-Ottoman border conflicts, Ottoman raids in Southern Hungary and Transylvania   Kingdom of Hungary   Ottoman Empire Victory
1440–1442 Civil war between Wladyslaw I and Ladislaus   Kingdom of Poland
Hungarian nobles
Cillei family and other Hungarian nobles Peace agreement
  • Wladyslaw is accepted as Hungarian king
1443–1444 Long campaign   Kingdom of Hungary   Ottoman Empire Hungarian withdrawal
1458–1459 Matthias I's war with Ján Jiskra   Kingdom of Hungary Jiskra's soldiers Royal victory
1458–1465 War in Bosnia   Kingdom of Hungary   Ottoman Empire Inconclusive
  • A part of Bosnia is occupied by the Ottoman Empire
1471–1476 Matthias Corvinus' intervention in the Moldovian-Ottoman War   Kingdom of Hungary
Moldavia
  Ottoman Empire Inconclusive
  • After initial Hungarian and Moldavian victories, Hungary stopped supporting Moldavia
  • Stephen III of Moldavia becomes a vassal of the Ottoman Empire
1480–1481 Ottoman invasion of Otranto   Kingdom of Naples
  Kingdom of Aragon
  Kingdom of Hungary
  Ottoman Empire Victory
1482–1488 Austrian-Hungarian War   Kingdom of Hungary   Holy Roman Empire Victory
1490–1491 War of the Hungarian Succession   Kingdom of Bohemia   Holy Roman Empire
  Kingdom of Poland (the two countries were not allies)
Inconclusive
  • The Bohemian king, Wladislaus won over the Polish army and got the Hungarian throne
  • Wladislaus is defeated by the Holy Roman Empire, which reconquered Vienna and the other parts of Austria
1492–1493 The Black Army's uprising   Kingdom of Hungary Black Army Victory
  • Destruction of the Black Army
1514 Peasant revolt led by György Dózsa   Kingdom of Hungary Peasant rebels Revolt suppressed
1493–1593 Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War Until 1526:
  Kingdom of Croatia
  Kingdom of Hungary

From 1527:
  Habsburg monarchy

Until 1526:
  Ottoman Empire

From 1527:
  Ottoman Empire

Inconclusive
  • Expansion of the Ottoman Empire in Europe was stopped in Battle of Sisak 1593.

Croatia within the Habsburg Monarchy (1527–1918) edit

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1573 Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt Croatian, Styrian and Carniolan nobility

Uskoks

Croatian and Slovenian peasant rebels Peasant defeat
1593–1606 Long Turkish War   Holy Roman Empire

  Kingdom of Hungary
  Kingdom of Croatia
  Transylvania
  Wallachia
  Moldavia
  Spain
  Zaporozhian Cossacks
  Serbian Hajduks
  Papal States
  Tuscany
  Knights of St. Stephen
  Duchy of Ferrara
  Duchy of Mantua
  Duchy of Savoy

  Ottoman Empire
  Crimean Khanate
  Nogai Horde
Inconclusive
1618–1648 Thirty Years' War Imperial alliance: Anti-Imperial alliance: Peace of Westphalia
  • Some sources claim that Swedish Emperor Gustavus Adolphus was killed by Croatian cavalrymen during the Battle of Lützen
1663–1664 Austro-Turkish War   Holy Roman Empire

  Piedmont-Savoy

  Kingdom of Croatia

  Kingdom of Hungary
League of the Rhine:

  Baden-Baden

  Swabia

  Kingdom of France

  Ottoman Empire Austria and allies military victory
Ottoman commercial and diplomatic victory[1]
1683–1699 Great Turkish War   Holy Roman Empire

  Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
  Tsardom of Russia

  Kingdom of Croatia
  Kingdom of Hungary
  Republic of Venice
  Duchy of Mantua
  Spanish Empire
  Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro
Serbian rebels
Greek rebels
Bulgarian rebels

  Ottoman Empire Victory
1716–1718 Austro-Turkish War   Habsburg monarchy   Ottoman Empire Victory
  • Treaty of Passarowitz
1788–1791 Austro-Turkish War   Habsburg monarchy   Ottoman Empire Inconclusive
1803–1815 Napoleonic Wars   Austrian Empire   French Republic (1792–1804)
  First French Empire (1804–1815)
Victory
  • Congress of Vienna
1848–1849 Hungarian Revolution of 1848   Austrian Empire

  Russian Empire

  Kingdom of Hungary Victory
1866 Third Italian War of Independence   Principality of Liechtenstein

  Austrian Empire

  Kingdom of Italy Military Victory, Diplomatic Defeat
  • Austria cedes Venetia to France, and France than cedes it to Italy
1878 Austro-Hungarian campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina   Austria-Hungary   Bosnia Vilayet
  Ottoman Empire (not openly)
Victory
  • Occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
1899–1901 Boxer Rebellion Eight-Nation Alliance:

  United Kingdom
  Russia
  Japan
  France
  United States
  Germany
  Italy
  Austria-Hungary

  Boxers
  Qing dynasty
Victory
1914–1918 World War I Central Powers:
  Austria-Hungary

  Germany
  Ottoman Empire
  Bulgaria

Allied Powers:
  Russia
  France
  British Empire
  Serbia
  Montenegro
  Belgium
  Japan
  Italy
  Portugal
  Romania
  United States
  Hejaz
  Greece
  Brazil
  Siam
Defeat

Kingdom of Yugoslavia, WWII and post-war Yugoslavia (1918–1991) edit

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1918-1920 Revolutions and interventions in Hungary   Czechoslovakia

  Kingdom of Romania

  Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

  Republic of Prekmurje


  Kingdom of Hungary
  France
  Hungarian Republic
  Hungarian SR

  Slovak SR

Victory
1918–1929 Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia   State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs
  Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (from 1 December 1918)
  Republic of German-Austria

  Carinthia


  First Austrian Republic (from 1919)
Ceasefire
1919 Christmas Uprising   Montenegrin Whites
  Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
  Montenegrin Greens
  Kingdom of Italy
Victory
  • The uprising was put down
1920-1921 Koplik War   Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes   Principality of Albania Mixed results
  • Yugoslavs are forced to withdraw due to international pressure
  • United Kingdom insists on slight adaptations in the regions of Debar, Prizren and Kastrati in the interest of Yugoslavia
1921 Albanian-Yugoslav Border War   Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

  Kingdom of Greece

  Republic of Mirdita

  Principality of Albania Peace brokered by the League of Nations
  • Recognition of Albanian sovereignty and borders
  • Mirdita rebels disbanded
1941 Axis Invasion of Yugoslavia   Kingdom of Yugoslavia   Germany
  Italy
  Bulgaria
  Hungary
Defeat
1941–1945 World War II in Yugoslavia Allies:
  Soviet Union
  Poland
  Czechoslovakia (from 1943)
  Tuva (until 1944)[2]
  Romania (from 1944)

  Bulgaria (from 1944)
  Finland (from 1944)

  Yugoslav Partisans

  Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (1943–1945)

Aerial role only:
  Free France (1943–1945)
  United Kingdom (1941)
  United States (1944)

Axis powers:
  Nazi Germany[3]
  Romania (until 1944)
  Hungary
  Italy (until 1943)
  Bulgaria (until 1944)
Axis puppet states:
  Slovakia

  Government of Nation Salvation
  Independent State of Croatia


Co-belligerents:
  Finland (until 1944)

Victory
1945–1965 Anti-Communist Resistance in Yugoslavia   Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia   Croatian Insurgents

  Serbian Insurgents

Victory
  • Most Anti-Communist Insurgents were defeated
1946-1949 Greek Civil War   Provisional Democratic Government of Greece


Supported by:

  Soviet Union

  People's Socialist Republic of Albania

  Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia

  Kingdom of Greece


Supported by:

  United Kingdom
  United States

Defeat
  • Hellenic Army victory
  • 100,000 ELAS fighters and communist sympathizers serving in DSE ranks were imprisoned, exiled, or executed
1948-1954 Albanian–Yugoslav conflict   Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia   People's Socialist Republic of Albania Defeat
  • Albanian victory
1975–2002 Angolan Civil War   MPLA

  SWAPO

  MK

  Cuba

  East Germany

  Soviet Union

  Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

  UNITA

  FNLA

  FLEC

  South Africa

  Zaire

Victory
  • Withdrawal of all foreign forces in 1989
  • Dissolution of the armed forces of FNLA
  • Participation of UNITA and FNLA, as political parties, in the new political system, from 1991 and 1992 onward, but civil war continues
  • Immediate peace agreement and dissolution of the armed forces of UNITA in 2002
  • Resistance of FLEC continued beyond 2002

Republic of Croatia (1991–present) edit

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1991–1995 Croatian War of Independence   Republic of Croatia

Supported by:

  Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1994–1995)   Military Professional Resources Inc.[4](1994–1995)

  SFR Yugoslavia (1991-1992)

  Republic of Serbian Krajina
  Republika Srpska
Supported by:
  FR Yugoslavia (1992-1995)

Victory
1992–1995 Bosnian War   Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia   Republic of Croatia

Supported by:
  NATO (bombing operations, 1995)

  SFR Yugoslavia (until 27 April 1992)

  AP Western Bosnia
  Republika Srpska
  Republic of Serbian Krajina
Supported by:
  FR Yugoslavia

Stalemate
1992–1994 Croat-Bosniak War   Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia


Supported by:
  Republic of Croatia

  Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina


Supported by:
  Bosnian mujahideen   Croatian Defence Forces (until 1993)

Inconclusive
2001–2021 War in Afghanistan   Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

  NATO

ISAF phase (from 2001):

  Taliban

Islamic Jihad Union

Haqqani network (from 2002)

  al-Qaeda


RS phase (from 2015):

  ISIL-KP

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

Pakistani Taliban

Defeat

References edit

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  3. ^ Germany's allies, in total, provided a significant number of troops and material to the front. There were also numerous foreign units recruited by Germany, notably the   Spanish Blue Division and the   Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism.
  4. ^ Singer, P.W. (2003-06-01). Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry. Cornell University Press. pp. 119–125. ISBN 9780801441141.
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