List of wars involving Slovenia

The following is an incomplete list of wars fought by Slovenia, by its people or regular armies during periods when Slovene states (whether constituent or sovereign) existed, from antiquity to the present day.

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

  Slovenian victory

  Slovenian 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)

16th Century

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1593–1606	Long Turkish War	Holy Roman Empire Habsburg Monarchy  Saxony Tuscany Duchy of Ferrara Duchy of Mantua  Duchy of Savoy Kingdom of Hungary Kingdom of Croatia Duchy of Carniola Principality of Transylvania  Wallachia  Moldavia  France  Spain  Papal States	Ottoman Empire  Crimean Khanate	Inconclusive Peace of Zsitvatorok

17th Century

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1663–1664	Austro-Turkish War	Holy Roman Empire  Electorate of Saxony  Brandenburg-Prussia  Habsburg monarchy  Electorate of Bavaria Duchy of Styria Serbia Duchy of Carniola  Piedmont-Savoy League of the Rhine  Baden-Baden  Swabia  Kingdom of France  Kingdom of Hungary Kingdom of Croatia	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate	Austria and allies military victory Ottoman commercial and diplomatic victory Peace of Vasvár
1683–1699	Great Turkish War	Holy Roman Empire and Habsburg Monarchy Bavaria Franconia  Saxony Duchy of Styria Royal Hungary Kingdom of Croatia Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Tsardom of Russia Republic of Venice	Ottoman Empire  Crimean Khanate	Victory Treaty of Karlowitz

19th Century

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1803–1815	Napoleonic Wars	French Republic (until 1804)  First French Empire (1804–1815)  Illyrian Provinces	Austrian Empire  United Kingdom  Russian Empire	Defeat Congress of Vienna
1848–1849	Hungarian Revolution of 1848	Hungarian nationalists  Hungary  Hungarian Slovenes  Rusyns  Zipser Saxons  Hungarian Germans  Banat Bulgarians Polish legions German and Viennese legion Slovenian nationalists and peasants   Radical dissidents of the Zedinjena Slovenija movement (minor confrontations only)   Peasant's revolts in Ig and elsewhere	Austria and Allies: Austria Kingdom of Croatia Serbian Vojvodina Serbian volunteers Habsburg Hungarians Slovak National Council Transylvanian Romanians Ljubljana City Guard Militia  Russian Empire	Defeat, Austro-Russian victory. Feudalism is abolished in most Slovenian lands
1878	Austro-Hungarian Campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878	Austria-Hungary 17th Infantry Regiment from Carniola	Bosnia Eyalet  Ottoman Empire	Victory Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina begins

World War I

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1914–1918	World War I	Central Powers:  Austria-Hungary  Germany  Ottoman Empire  Bulgaria (1915–18)	Allies: France  British Empire  Russia (1914–17)  Italy  United States (1917–18)  Serbia and others	Defeat, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is dissolved. Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)
1918–1919	Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia	State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (before unification) Maister's fighters  Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (after unification)	German-Austria  Carinthia (Provisional state government of Carinthia)	Ceasefire In Carinthian plebiscite southeastern Carinthia votes in favour of joining Austria. Territorial changes are coordinated by Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Majority of southeastern Carinthia is ceded to Austria. Meža Valley and Jezersko are ceded to Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1919	Prekmurje and Yugoslav Clashes against Hungary of 1919	Republic of Prekmurje (before Bela Kun's invasion and the occupation by Hungary)  Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes  Serbian Units of the Donavska Banovina of the SHS Kingdom (clean-up following the demise of the occupation)	Hungarian Soviet Republic	Compromised victory Prekmurje Republic is secured by Yugoslav forces after being occupied by Hungary. Hungarian Soviet Republic is dissolved by the Entente via Romania.

World War II

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1941	World War II — Invasion of Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia	Germany  Italy Hungary	Axis victory Occupation of Yugoslavia Partition of Yugoslavia between the Axis Creation of pro-Axis puppet regimes
1941–1945	World War II — World War II in Yugoslavia	Partisans  Soviet Union (1944–45) Bulgaria (1944–45) Albania (1944–45)  United Kingdom (1942–1945)  United States (limited involvement, 1943–45)	Germany  Italy (until 1943)  Croatiaa VNSa  Hungary  Bulgaria (until 1944)  Croatiaa VNSa (until 1944) Albania (1943–44) Slovene Home Guard (1943–45) Pećanac Chetniks	Allied victory

Since World War II

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1991	Ten-Day War	Slovenia	Yugoslavia	Decisive Slovene victory Brioni Accords Slovene independence upheld and recognized by Yugoslavia

Peacekeeping missions

Mission	Start-date	End-date	Location	Troops deployed
KFOR	?	Ongoing	Kosovo	316

References

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