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:
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) |
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Duchy of Croatia (7th century–925)
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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7th century–925 | Croatian–Venetian wars | Narentines Duchy of Croatia |
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 | Peace agreement | |
871 | Conquest of Bari | Holy Roman Empire Duchy of Croatia (Croatian fleet) |
Emirate of Bari | Victory |
Kingdom of Croatia (925–1102)
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
c. 925 | Hungarian Invasions of Croatia | Hungarian tribes | Victory | |
925–931 | Second Croatian-Bulgarian War | Victory | ||
968–1018 | Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria | Kingdom of Hungary |
Pechenegs |
Victory |
997–1000 | Third Croatian-Bulgarian War | Victory | ||
c. 1040–1185 | Byzantine–Norman wars | Holy Roman Empire |
Victory | |
1091–1102 | War of the Croatian Succession |
|
Kingdom of Hungary
|
Defeat
|
Croatia in personal union with Hungary (1102–1527)
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1108 | Hungarian war with the Holy Roman Empire | Holy Roman Empire |
Victory | |
1108–1126 | Hungarian-Bohemian wars | Peace agreement | ||
1115–1119 | Croatian-Venetian War | Defeat | ||
1123 | Stephen II's intervention in the Kievan Rus' internal conflict | Iaroslav Sviatopolkovich |
Hungarian withdrawal | |
1124–1125 | Croatian-Venetian War | Defeat | ||
1127–1129 | Byzantine-Hungarian War | Grand Principality of Serbia |
Peace agreement | |
1132 | Hungarian-Polish War | Victory | ||
1136–1137 | Béla II's Balkan campaigns against Venice and the Byzantine Empire | Victory | ||
1146 | German-Hungarian War | Victory | ||
1149–1152 | Géza II's intervention in the conflict between the Principality of Halych and Kievan Rus' | Principality of Halych | Peace agreement | |
1148–1155 | Hungarian-Byzantine wars | Grand Principality of Serbia |
Ceasefire | |
1162–1165 | Hungarian civil war between Stephen III and his uncles Ladislaus and Stephen | Holy Roman Empire |
Ladislaus and Stephen's army | Stephen III's victory |
1180–1185 | Hungarian-Byzantine war | Victory | ||
1188–1189 | Béla III's military campaign against Halych | Victory | ||
1197–1199 | Civil war between Emeric king and his brother Andrew II | Andrew II's army | Emeric's victory | |
1201–1205 | Emeric's Balkan wars | Croatian/Hungarian victories | ||
1202–1204 | Fourth Crusade | Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade |
Defeat | |
1217–1218 | Andrew II's participation in the Fifth crusade | Croatian/Hungarian withdrawal | ||
1235–1241 | Bosnian Crusade | Status quo ante bellum | ||
1241–1242 | First Mongol invasion of Hungary | Mongols | Mongol withdrawal | |
1243 | Venetian War for Zadar | Defeat | ||
1250–1278 | Hungarian-Bohemian wars | Holy Roman Empire |
Victory | |
1264–1265 | Internal conflict between Béla IV and his son Stephen V | Stephen V's army | Stephen V's victory
| |
1268 | Mačva War | Peace agreement | ||
1272–1279 | Feudal anarchy | Csák family |
Kőszegi family Gutkeled family |
Royal victory |
1277 | Stefan Dragutin-Stefan Uroš I conflict | Stefan Dragutin |
Stefan Uroš I | Stefan Dragutin's victory |
1277 | Hungary's war with the Vlach ruler Litovoi | Litovoi's army | Victory | |
1282 | Cuman uprising | Cumans | Victory | |
1285–1286 | Second Mongol invasion of Hungary | Victory | ||
1291 | German-Hungarian War | Holy Roman Empire | Victory | |
1292–1300 | Andrew III's war with the Kőszegi family | Kőszegi family | Andrew III's victory | |
1301–1308 | Hungarian interregnum, struggles for the country's throne |
|
Kőszegi family |
Victory
|
1310–1321 | Charles I's wars for centralizing power against Croatian and Hungarian aristocracy | Máté Csák
|
Royal victory
| |
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 | Holy Roman Empire Kőszegi family Babonić family |
Status quo ante bellum | |
1321–1324 | Hungarian-Serbian War | Kingdom of Bosnia Stephen Vladislav II of Syrmia |
Defeat | |
1330 | Hungarian-Wallachian War | Hungarian defeat at the battle of Posada | ||
1347–1349
1350–1352 |
Neapolitan campaigns of Louis the Great | First campaign: Croatian/Hungarian victory Second campaign: Status quo ante bellum | ||
1345–1358 | Croatian-Venetian War | Victory | ||
1345 | Hungarian war with the Golden Horde for Moldavia | Victory
| ||
1360–1369 | Louis I's Balkan wars against Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia and Bosnia | Serbian Empire |
Temporary Hungarian victories | |
1372–1381 | War of Chioggia | 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 | Horváti family | Emperor Sigismund's victory | |
1366–1526 | Ottoman–Hungarian wars | Defeat
| ||
1411–1433 | Croatian-Venetian War | Defeat
| ||
1419–1434 | Hussite Wars | Hussites | Victory | |
1428–1432 | War of the South Danube | Wallachia |
Ceasefire | |
1437–1442 | Hungarian-Ottoman border conflicts, Ottoman raids in Southern Hungary and Transylvania | Victory | ||
1440–1442 | Civil war between Wladyslaw I and Ladislaus | Hungarian nobles |
Cillei family and other Hungarian nobles | Peace agreement
|
1443–1444 | Long campaign | Hungarian withdrawal | ||
1458–1459 | Matthias I's war with Ján Jiskra | Jiskra's soldiers | Royal victory | |
1458–1465 | War in Bosnia | Inconclusive
| ||
1471–1476 | Matthias Corvinus' intervention in the Moldovian-Ottoman War | Moldavia |
Inconclusive
| |
1480–1481 | Ottoman invasion of Otranto | Victory | ||
1482–1488 | Austrian-Hungarian War | Victory | ||
1490–1491 | War of the Hungarian Succession | Inconclusive
| ||
1492–1493 | The Black Army's uprising | Black Army | Victory
| |
1514 | Peasant revolt led by György Dózsa | Peasant rebels | Revolt suppressed | |
1493–1593 | Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War | Until 1526: From 1527: |
Until 1526: From 1527: |
Inconclusive
|
Croatia within the Habsburg Monarchy (1527–1918)
Kingdom of Yugoslavia, WWII and post-war Yugoslavia (1918–1991)
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1918-1920 | Revolutions and interventions in Hungary | Czechoslovakia
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Kingdom of Hungary France |
Hungarian Republic
Hungarian 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
First Austrian Republic (from 1919) |
Ceasefire
|
1919 | Christmas Uprising | Montenegrin Whites |
Montenegrin Greens Kingdom of Italy |
Victory
|
1920-1921 | Koplik War | Principality of Albania | Mixed results
| |
1921 | Albanian-Yugoslav Border War | Principality of Albania | Peace brokered by the League of Nations
| |
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)
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (1943–1945)
Aerial role only: |
Axis powers: Nazi Germany[3] Romania (until 1944) Hungary Italy (until 1943) Bulgaria (until 1944) Axis puppet states: Slovakia
|
Victory
|
1945–1965 | Anti-Communist Resistance in Yugoslavia | Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia | Croatian Insurgents | Victory
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1946-1949 | Greek Civil War | Provisional Democratic Government of Greece
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Kingdom of Greece
|
Defeat
|
1948-1954 | Albanian–Yugoslav conflict | Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia | People's Socialist Republic of Albania | Defeat
|
1975–2002 | Angolan Civil War | MPLA | UNITA | Victory
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Republic of Croatia (1991–present)
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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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 |
Victory
|
1992–1995 | Bosnian War | Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Supported by:
|
SFR Yugoslavia (until 27 April 1992)
AP Western Bosnia
|
Stalemate
|
1992–1994 | Croat-Bosniak War |
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Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
Inconclusive
|
2001–2021 | War in Afghanistan | Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
|
ISAF phase (from 2001):
Haqqani network (from 2002) RS phase (from 2015): Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Pakistani Taliban |
Defeat
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