List of wars involving Croatia
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The following is an incomplete list of wars fought byCroatia,byCroatian peopleor regular armies during periods when independent Croatian states existed, from theEarly Middle Agesto 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) |
Duchy of Croatia (7th century–925)[edit]
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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7th century–925 | Croatian–Venetian wars | Narentines Duchy of Croatia |
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Intermittent victories and defeats |
799 | Siege of Trsat | Duchy of Croatia | Francia | Victory |
846–848 | Croatian-Byzantine War | Duchy of Croatia | Zadarunder the Byzantine strategos | Victory |
854 | First Bulgarian-Croatian War | Duchy of Croatia | ![]() |
Peace agreement |
871 | Conquest of Bari | ![]() ![]() Duchy of Croatia(Croatian fleet) |
Emirate of Bari | Victory |
Kingdom of Croatia (925–1102)[edit]
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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c. 925 | Hungarian Invasions of Croatia | ![]() |
Hungarian tribes | Victory |
925–931 | Second Croatian-Bulgarian War | ![]() |
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Victory |
968–1018 | Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Victory |
997–1000 | Third Croatian-Bulgarian War | ![]() |
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Victory |
c. 1040–1185 | Byzantine–Norman wars | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Victory |
1091–1102 | War of the Croatian Succession | ![]()
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Defeat
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Croatia in personal union with Hungary(1102–1527)[edit]
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1108 | Hungarian war with the Holy Roman Empire | ![]() |
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Victory |
1108–1126 | Hungarian-Bohemian wars | ![]() |
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Peace agreement |
1115–1119 | Croatian-Venetian War | ![]() |
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Defeat |
1123 | Stephen II'sintervention in the Kievan Rus' internal conflict | ![]() Iaroslav Sviatopolkovich |
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Hungarian withdrawal |
1124–1125 | Croatian-Venetian War | ![]() |
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Defeat |
1127–1129 | Byzantine-Hungarian War | ![]() Grand Principality of Serbia |
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Peace agreement |
1132 | Hungarian-Polish War | ![]() ![]() |
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Victory |
1136–1137 | Béla II's Balkan campaigns against Venice and the Byzantine Empire | ![]() |
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Victory |
1146 | German-Hungarian War | ![]() |
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Victory |
1149–1152 | Géza II's intervention in the conflict between thePrincipality of GaliciaandKievan Rus' | ![]() ![]() |
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Peace agreement |
1148–1155 | Hungarian-Byzantine wars | ![]() Grand Principality of Serbia |
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Ceasefire |
1162–1165 | Hungarian civil war betweenStephen IIIand his unclesLadislausandStephen | ![]() ![]() |
Ladislaus and Stephen's army | Stephen III's victory |
1180–1185 | Hungarian-Byzantine war | ![]() |
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Victory |
1188–1189 | Béla III's military campaign against Galicia | ![]() |
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Victory |
1197–1199 | Civil warbetweenEmericking and his brotherAndrew II | ![]() |
Andrew II's army | Emeric's victory |
1201–1205 | Emeric's Balkan wars | ![]() |
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Croatian/Hungarian victories |
1202–1204 | Fourth Crusade | ![]() |
Crusaders of theFourth Crusade![]() |
Defeat |
1217–1218 | Andrew II's participation in theFifth crusade | ![]() |
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Croatian/Hungarian withdrawal |
1235–1241 | Bosnian Crusade | ![]() |
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Status quo ante bellum |
1241–1242 | First Mongol invasion of Hungary | ![]() |
Mongols | Mongol withdrawal |
1243 | Venetian War for Zadar | ![]() |
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Defeat |
1250–1278 | Hungarian-Bohemian wars | ![]() ![]() |
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Victory |
1264–1265 | Internal conflictbetweenBéla IVand his sonStephen V | ![]() |
Stephen V's army | Stephen V's victory
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1268 | Mačva War | ![]() |
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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 rulerLitovoi | ![]() |
Litovoi's army | Victory |
1282 | Cumanuprising | ![]() |
Cumans | Victory |
1285–1286 | Second Mongol invasion of Hungary | ![]() |
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Victory |
1291 | German-Hungarian War | ![]() |
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Victory |
1292–1300 | Andrew III'swar with the Kőszegi family | ![]() |
Kőszegi family | Andrew III's victory |
1301–1308 | Hungarian interregnum,struggles for the country's throne | ![]() ![]()
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Victory
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1310–1321 | Charles I'swars for centralizing power against Croatian and Hungarian aristocracy | ![]() |
Máté Csák
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Royal victory
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1322 | Feudal and dynastic conflicts in Croatia | Coalition ofCroatian noblemenandDalmatiancoastal towns with support of the royal forces of kingCharles I Robert | Mladen II Šubić of Bribirand his allies | Defeat of Mladen II |
1322–1337 | Hungarian-Austrian War | ![]() |
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Status quo ante bellum |
1321–1324 | Hungarian-Serbian War | ![]() Kingdom of Bosnia Stephen Vladislav II of Syrmia |
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Defeat |
1330 | Hungarian-Wallachian War | ![]() |
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Hungarian defeat at thebattle of Posada |
1347–1349
1350–1352 |
Neapolitan campaigns of Louis the Great | ![]() |
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First campaign:Croatian/Hungarian victory Second campaign:Status quo ante bellum |
1345–1358 | Croatian-Venetian War | ![]() |
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Victory |
1345 | Hungarian war with theGolden Hordefor Moldavia | ![]() |
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Victory
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1360–1369 | Louis I'sBalkan wars against Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia and Bosnia | ![]() |
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Temporary Hungarian victories |
1372–1381 | War of Chioggia | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Paduan military victory, practicallystatus quo ante bellum |
1384–1394 | Civil war between a part of the Hungarian nobility andMary, Queen of Hungaryand EmperorSigismund | ![]() |
Horváti family | Emperor Sigismund's victory |
1366–1526 | Ottoman–Hungarian wars | ![]() |
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Defeat
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1411–1433 | Croatian-Venetian War | ![]() ![]() |
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Defeat
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1419–1434 | Hussite Wars | ![]() ![]() |
Hussites | Victory |
1428–1432 | War of the South Danube | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Ceasefire |
1437–1442 | Hungarian-Ottoman border conflicts, Ottoman raids in Southern Hungary and Transylvania | ![]() |
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Victory |
1440–1442 | Civil war betweenWladyslaw IandLadislaus | ![]() Hungarian nobles |
Cillei family and otherHungarian nobles | Peace agreement
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1443–1444 | Long campaign | ![]() |
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Hungarian withdrawal |
1458–1459 | Matthias I'swar withJán Jiskra | ![]() |
Jiskra's soldiers | Royal victory |
1458–1465 | War in Bosnia | ![]() |
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Inconclusive
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1471–1476 | Matthias Corvinus'intervention in theMoldovian-Ottoman War | ![]() Moldavia |
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Inconclusive
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1480–1481 | Ottoman invasion of Otranto | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Victory |
1482–1488 | Austrian-Hungarian War | ![]() |
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Victory |
1490–1491 | War of the Hungarian Succession | ![]() |
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Inconclusive
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1492–1493 | The Black Army's uprising | ![]() |
Black Army | Victory
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1514 | Peasant revolt led byGyörgy Dózsa | ![]() |
Peasant rebels | Revolt suppressed |
1493–1593 | Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War | Until 1526:![]() ![]() From 1527: |
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Inconclusive
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Croatia within the Habsburg Monarchy(1527–1918)[edit]
Kingdom of Yugoslavia, WWII and post-war Yugoslavia (1918–1991)[edit]
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1918-1920 | Revolutions and interventions in Hungary | ![]()
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Victory
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1918–1929 | Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia | ![]() ![]() |
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Ceasefire
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1919 | Christmas Uprising | ![]() ![]() |
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Victory
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1920-1921 | Koplik War | ![]() |
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Mixed results
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1921 | Albanian-Yugoslav Border War | ![]() |
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Peace brokered by the League of Nations
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1941 | Axis Invasion of Yugoslavia | ![]() |
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Defeat
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1941–1945 | World War II in Yugoslavia | Allies:![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Victory
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1946-1949 | Greek Civil War | ![]() Supported by:
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Defeat
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1948-1954 | Albanian–Yugoslav conflict | ![]() |
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Defeat
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1975–2002 | Angolan Civil War | ![]()
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Victory
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Republic of Croatia (1991–present)[edit]
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1991–1995 | Croatian War of Independence | ![]() Supported by:
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Victory
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1992–1995 | Bosnian War | ![]()
Supported by:
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Stalemate
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1992–1994 | Croat-Bosniak War | ![]()
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Inconclusive
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2001–2021 | War in Afghanistan | ![]() |
ISAF phase (from 2001):
Haqqani network(from 2002) RS phase (from 2015): Lashkar-e-Jhangvi PakistaniTaliban |
Defeat
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