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 antiquity to the present day.

The list gives the name, the date, combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:

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)

Kingdom of Croatia (925–1102)

Date	Conflict	combat 3	Combatant 2	Result defeat
854	First Croatian-Bulgarian war	Duchy of Croatia Kingdom of Croatia	Bulgarian Empire	Indecisive
925-931	Second Croatian-Bulgarian war	Duchy of Croatia Kingdom of Croatia	Bulgarian Empire	Victory
968-1018	Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria	Byzantine Empire Kievan Rus' (968-969) Kingdom of Hungary Principality of Duklja Kingdom of Croatia	Bulgarian Empire Kievan Rus' (970-971) Pechenegs	Victory
997-1000	Third Croatian-Bulgarian war	Duchy of Croatia Kingdom of Croatia	Bulgarian Empire	Defeat
1097	Battle of Gvozd Mountain	Kingdom of Croatia (allies of king Petar Svačić)	Kingdom of Hungary Allies among Croatian nobles	Defeat Hungarian victory Death of Petar Svačić Croatia entered Personal union with Kingdom of Hungary (within Habsburg Monarchy, Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary)

Kingdom of Hungary/Austria-Hungary (1000–1918)

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1105	Siege of Zara and occupation of Dalmatia	Kingdom of Hungary	Dalmatian cities Venice	Hungarian victory
1108	Hungarian war with the Holy Roman Empire	Kingdom of Hungary	Holy Roman Empire Duchy of Bohemia	Hungarian victory
1108–1126	Hungarian – Bohemian wars	Kingdom of Hungary	Duchy of Bohemia	Peace agreement
1115–1119	Hungarian – Venetian wars	Kingdom of Hungary	Republic of Venice	Hungarian defeat
1123	Stephen II's intervention in the Kievan Rus' internal conflict	Kingdom of Hungary Iaroslav from Vladimir	Kievan Rus'	Hungarian retreat
1124–1125	Hungarian – Venetian war	Kingdom of Hungary	Republic of Venice	Hungarian defeat
1127–1129	Byzantine-Hungarian War (1126–29)	Kingdom of Hungary Serbian Grand Principality	Byzantine Empire	Peace agreement
1132	Hungarian – Polish war	Kingdom of Hungary Duchy of Austria	Kingdom of Poland	Hungarian victory
1136–1137	Béla II's balcanic campaigns (against Venice and the Byzantine Empire)	Kingdom of Hungary	Byzantine Empire Republic of Venice	Hungarian victory
1146	German – Hungarian war	Kingdom of Hungary	Duchy of Bavaria Duchy of Austria	Hungarian 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 Serbian Grand Principality	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
1167	Battle of Sirmium	Kingdom of Hungary Banate of Bosnia	Byzantine Empire Serbian Grand Principality	Decisive Byzantine victory
1180–1184	Hungarian – Byzantine war	Kingdom of Hungary	Byzantine Empire	Hungarian victory
1188–1189	Béla III's military campaign against Halych	Kingdom of Hungary	Principality of Halych	Hungarian victory
1197–1199	Civil war between Emeric king and his brother Andrew	Emeric's army	Andrew's army	Emeric's victory
1201–1205	Emeric's balcanic wars	Kingdom of Hungary	Second Bulgarian Empire Grand Principality of Serbia Bosnia	Hungarian victories
1202	Siege of Zara	Kingdom of Hungary	soldiers of the fourth crusade Republic of Venice	Hungarian defeat
1213–1214, 1219, 1233–1234	Andrew II's military campaigns against Halych	Kingdom of Hungary	Principality of Halych	Hungarian retreat
1217–1218	Andrew II's participation in the Fifth crusade	Kingdom of Hungary Archduchy of Austria Latin Empire of Constantinople	Ayyubids	Hungarian retreat
1237	Bosnian Crusade	Coloman of Galicia-Lodomeria	"heretics" within the Banate of Bosnia	Hungarian retreat
1241–1242	Mongol invasion of Hungary	Kingdom of Hungary	mongols	decisive mongol victory
1243	Siege of Zara	Kingdom of Hungary	Republic of Venice	Hungarian defeat
1246	Battle of Leitha	Kingdom of Hungary	Archduchy of Austria	Austrian retreat
1250–1278	Hungarian – Bohemian wars	Kingdom of Hungary Holy Roman Empire	Kingdom of Bohemia Duchy of Austria	Bohemian defeat
1264–1265	Internal conflict between Béla IV and his son, Stephen	Béla I's army	Stephen's army	Stephen's victory, he got eastern Hungary as a duchy
1268	Mačva War	Béla IV of Hungary	Kingdom of Serbia (medieval), Stefan Uroš I	Peace
1272–1279	Feudal anarchy	Ladislaus IV king Csák noble family	Kőszegi noble family Gutkeled noble family	Royal victory
1277	Stefan Dragutin-Stefan Uroš I conflict	Stefan Dragutin Kingdom of Hungary	Kingdom of Serbia (medieval) Stefan Uroš I	Stefan Dragutin
1277	Hungary's war with the vlach ruler, Litovoi	Kingdom of Hungary	Litovoi's army	Hungarian victory
1282	Cumanic uprising	Kingdom of Hungary	cumanic tribes	Hungarian victory
1285	Mongol attack against Hungary	Kingdom of Hungary	Golden Horde	mongol retreat
1291	German – Hungarian war	Kingdom of Hungary	Holy Roman Empire	Hungarian victory
1292–1300	Andrew III's war with the Kőszegi Hungarian noble family	Kingdom of Hungary	Kőszegi family	Andrew's victory
1301–1308	Hungarian interregnum, fightings for the country's throne	Charles of Anjou Duchy of Austria Máté Csák's army László Kán's army	Kingdom of Bohemia Duchy of Bavaria Kőszegi Hungarian noble family	Charles became Hungarian king
1310–1321	Charles I's wars for the centralized power against the Hungarian aristocracy	Kingdom of Hungary	Máté Csák Aba family Borsa family Apor family Kőszegi family	Royal victory, centralization of the Hungarian Kingdom
1317	Belgrade and Banate of Mačva	Charles I of Hungary	Kingdom of Serbia (medieval), Stefan Milutin	Charles I
1322–1337	Hungarian–Austrian War	Kingdom of Hungary	Duchy of Austria Holy Roman Empire Kőszegi family Babonić Croatian noble family	status quo ante bellum
1321–1324	Hungarian–Serbian War	Kingdom of Hungary Bosnia Stephen Vladislav II of Syrmia	Kingdom of Serbia (medieval)	Hungarian defeat
1330	Hungarian-Wallachian War	Kingdom of Hungary	Wallachia	Hungarian defeat in the battle of Posada
1347–1349, 1350–1352	Hungarian-Naples Wars	Kingdom of Hungary	Kingdom of Naples	First campaign: temporary Hungarian victory Second campaign: status quo ante bellum
1345–1358	Hungarian–Venetian War	Kingdom of Hungary	Republic of Venice	Treaty of Zadar
1345	Hungary's war with the Golden Horde	Kingdom of Hungary	Golden Horde	Hungarian victory, liberation of Moldavia under mongol rule
1360–1369	Louis I's balcanic wars (against Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia and Bosnia)	Kingdom of Hungary	Serbian Empire Second Bulgarian Empire Bosnia Wallachia	Temporary Hungarian victories
1366–1367	Hungarian–Osman War	Kingdom of Hungary Duchy of Savoya Padova Republic of Venice Kingdom of France Byzantine Empire	Ottoman Empire Second Bulgarian Empire	Christian victory
1372–1381	War of Chioggia	Padua Hungarian Kingdom Republic of Genoa Duchy of Austria	Republic of Venice Milan Ottoman Empire Kingdom of Cyprus	Paduan military victory, practically status quo ante bellum
1375–1377	Hungarian–Osman War	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire Second Bulgarian Empire Wallachia	Hungarian victory
1384–1394	Civil war between a part of the Hungarian nobility and Mary, Queen of Hungary and Sigismund king	Kingdom of Hungary	Horváti family Kingdom of Naples	Sigismund's victory
1391–1396	Hungarian–Osman War	Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of France^[1] Kingdom of Hungary Wallachia Knights Hospitaller Republic of Venice Republic of Genoa Second Bulgarian Empire	Ottoman Empire Moravian Serbia	Christian defeat in the Battle of Nicopolis
1411–1433	Hungarian–Venetian War	Kingdom of Hungary Milan	Republic of Venice	Dalmatia became part of Venice
1415–1419	Hungarian–Osman War	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Stalemate
1419–1434	Hussite Wars	Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of Hungary	hussites	defeat of radical hussites
1428–1432	War of the South Danube	Kingdom of Hungary Wallachia Grand Duchy of Lithuania	Ottoman Empire	Armistice
1437	Budai Nagy Antal revolt	Kingdom of Hungary	transilvanian peasants	Defeat of the rebels
1437–1442	Hungarian–Ottoman border conflicts, Ottoman raids in South-Hungary and Transylvania	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Hungarian 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 retreat
1444–1448	Hungarian–Ottoman War (1444, Crusade of Varna)	Kingdom of Hungary Wallachia	Ottoman Empire Moravian Serbia	Hungarian retreat
1456	Siege of Belgrade	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Hungarian victory
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	A part of Bosnia is occupied by the Ottoman Empire
1465–1471	Hussite uprising in North-Hungary	Kingdom of Hungary	Czech hussite rebels	Hungarian victory
1467	Hungarian - Moldavian war	Kingdom of Hungary	Moldavia	Hungarian defeat in the battle of Baia
1468–1478	Bohemian War (1468-1478)	Kingdom of Hungary	Kingdom of Bohemia	Treaty of Olmütz, Matthias became king of Bohemia
1471–1476	Matthias's intervention in the Moldovian – Osman War	Kingdom of Hungary Moldavia	Ottoman Empire	After initial Hungarian-moldavian victories Hungary stopped the advocating of Moldavia, so Stephen III moldavian ruler became vasal of the Ottoman Empire.
1479	Battle of Breadfield	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire Wallachia	Hungarian victory
1480–1481	Battle of Otranto	Kingdom of Naples Kingdom of Aragon Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Christian victory
1482–1488	Austrian-Hungarian War (1477-1488)	Kingdom of Hungary	Holy Roman Empire	Hungarian victory, capture of Wien in 1485
1490–1491	War of Hungarian succession	Kingdom of Bohemia	Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of Poland (the two countries were not allies)	The bohemian king, Wladislaus won over the polish army and get the Hungarian throne, but is defeated by the Holy Roman Empire's army, which conquested back Wien and the other parts of Austria.
1491–1495	Hungarian – Osman war	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Stalemate
1492–1493	The Black Army's uprising	Kingdom of Hungary	Black Army	Destruction of the black army
1499–1504	Hungarian – Osman war	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Stalemate
1512–1520	Hungarian – Osman war	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Successful defensive operations against the Ottomans
1514	Peasants revolt, led by György Dózsa	Kingdom of Hungary	Peasants	Revolt suppressed
1521–1526	Hungarian – Osman war (ended with the Battle of Mohács)	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Hungarian defeat, partitioning of the medieval Hungarian kingdom
1552	Siege of Eger	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Victory
1573	Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt	Kingdom of Hungary Kingdom of Croatia	Croatian and Slovenian peasant rebels	Peasant defeat
1899-1901	Boxer Rebellion	Eight-Nation Alliance United Kingdom Russia Japan France United States Germany Italy Austria-Hungary	Yihetuan (Boxers) Qing dynasty	Victory
1914-1918	World War I	Central Powers Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria	Allied Powers Russian Empire France British Empire Kingdom of Serbia Kingdom of Montenegro Belgium Japan Italy Portugal Romania United States Hejaz Greece Brazil Siam	Allied Victory

Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1943)

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1919	Christmas Uprising	Montenegrin Whites Kingdom of Yugoslavia	Montenegrin Greens Kingdom of Italy	Victory The uprising was put down.
1941	Invasion of Yugoslavia Part of the World War II	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	Germany Italy Hungary	Defeat Occupation of Yugoslavia Partition of Yugoslavia between the Axis. Creation of pro-Axis puppet regimes.

Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945)

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1941-1945	Eastern Front (World War II) Part of the World War II	Axis powers Nazi Germany^[2] Romania (until 1944) Hungary Italy (until 1943) Bulgaria (until 1944) Axis puppet states Slovak Republic Croatia Co-belligerents Finland (until 1944)	Allies Soviet Union Poland Yugoslavia (from 1944) Czechoslovakia (from 1943) Tuva (until 1944)^[3] Former Axis powers or co-belligerents Romania (from 1944) Bulgaria (from 1944) Finland (from 1944) Aerial role only Free France (1943–45) United Kingdom (1941) United States (1944)	Defeat End of World War II in Europe (concurrently with the Western Front). Soviet Union occupies Eastern Europe and establishes pro-Soviet Communist governments in countries including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and East Germany. Croatia annexed into the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. Beginning of the Cold War and the creation of the Iron Curtain. The beginning of the Greek Civil War. Borders of Poland adjusted.

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1992)

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1975-2002	Angolan Civil War	MPLA SWAPO MK Cuba (1975-91) East Germany (1975-89) Soviet Union (1975-89) Executive Outcomes (1992-95) Yugoslavia	UNITA FNLA FLEC South Africa (1975-89) Zaire (1975)	Victory Withdrawal of all foreign forces in 1989 Transition towards a multiparty political system in 1991/92 Dissolution of the armed forces of FNLA Participation of UNITA and FNLA, as political parties, in the new political system, from 1991/92 onwards, but civil war continues Jonas Savimbi killed in 2002 Immediate peace agreement and dissolution of the armed forces of UNITA in 2002 Resistance of FLEC continued beyond 2002

Modern (1991-present)

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1991-1995	Croatian War of Independence	Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina	Republic of Serbian Krajina Republika Srpska Yugoslav People's Army	Victory Croatian victory Croatian forces regain control over most of RSK-held Croatian territory. Croatian forces advance into Bosnia and Herzegovina which leads to the eventual end of the Bosnian War.
1992-1995	Bosnian War	Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia NATO (bombing operations, 1995)	Republika Srpska Republic of Serbian Krajina AP Western Bosnia Supported by: FR Yugoslavia	Stalemate Internal partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the Dayton Accords. Over 38,200 civilian casualties, mainly from the Bosnian Muslim ethnic group.^[4]^[5] Almost 57,700 soldiers killed.^[4]^[5] First case of genocide in Europe since World War II. Deployment of NATO-led forces to oversee the peace agreement. NATO successful bombing operations Establishment of the Office of the High Representative to oversee the civilian implementation of the peace agreement.
2001-2014	Afghanistan War	United States United Kingdom Germany Italy France Canada Australia Georgia Poland Romania Turkey Afghanistan Northern Alliance ISAF Albania Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark El Salvador Estonia Finland Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Jordan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Mongolia Montenegro Netherlands New Zealand Norway Portugal Republic of Macedonia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Tonga Ukraine United Arab Emirates	Taliban al-Qaeda Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan HI-Gulbuddin Hezb-e Islami Khalis Haqqani network Lashkar-e-Taiba Jaish-e-Mohammed East Turkestan Islamic Movement Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Islamic Emirate of Waziristan Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi Islamic Jihad Union Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan	Victory Invasion of Afghanistan Fall of the Taliban government in Afghanistan Destruction of al-Qaeda camps Over two thirds of al-Qaeda's leadership demolished Occupation of Afghanistan Establishment of a new Afghan Government and Security Force Taliban insurgency Killing of Osama bin Laden

References

↑ Tuchman, 548
↑ 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.
↑ Toomas Alatalu. Tuva: A State Reawakens. Soviet Studies, Vol. 44, No. 5 (1992), pp. 881–895.
1 2 Calic, Marie-Janine (2012). "Ethnic Cleansing and War Crimes, 1991–1995". In Ingrao, Charles W.; Emmert, Thomas A. Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholars' Initiative. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. pp. 139–140. ISBN 978-1-55753-617-4. Footnotes in source identify numbers as June 2012.
1 2 "Spolna i nacionalna struktura žrtava i ljudski gubitci vojnih formacija (1991–1996)". Prometej.

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