List of wars involving Serbia
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The following is a list of wars involving Serbia in the late modern period and contemporary history.
The list gives the name, the date, combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:
- Serbian victory
- Serbian 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)
- Ongoing conflict
List
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results |
---|---|---|---|
Uprising against the Dahije (1804) |
Serbia |
Dahije | Victory
|
First Serbian Uprising (1804–1813) Part of the Serbian Revolution |
Supported by: |
(from 1805) | Treaty of Bucharest[2]
|
Russo-Turkish Wars
|
Russian Empire Moldavia |
Victory[2] | |
Second Serbian Uprising (1815–1817) Part of the Serbian Revolution |
Serbian rebels
|
Ottoman Empire | Victory
|
Niš Rebellion (1821) |
Serb rebels | Ottoman Empire | Defeat
|
Serb uprising (1848–1849) Part of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire |
Austria aid |
|
Victory
|
Herzegovina uprising (1875–1877) Part of the Great Eastern Crisis |
Serb rebels Supported by: Serbia Montenegro |
Ottoman Empire |
|
|
Ottoman Empire | Victory
| |
Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)
|
Ottoman Empire
|
Victory
| |
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) |
Russian Empire
Serbian rebels |
Ottoman Empire
|
Coalition Victory
|
Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885) |
Support by: |
Bulgaria | Defeat
|
Macedonian struggle (1901) |
Serbian Chetniks Supported by: Serbia |
VMRO Ottoman Empire |
Mixed Results
|
First Balkan War (1912–1913) Part of the Balkan Wars |
Balkan League: Supported by: | Victory[15] | |
Serbian invasion of Albania (1912–1913) Part of the Balkan Wars |
Kingdom of Serbia Kingdom of Montenegro |
Independent Albania
|
Victory
|
Tikveš Uprising (1913) |
Serbia Chetniks |
IMRO Supported by: Bulgaria |
Victory
|
Second Balkan War (1913) Part of the Balkan Wars |
Victory | ||
Third Peasant Revolt in Albania (September–October 1914) |
Republic of Central Albania Support: Kingdom of Serbia Kingdom of Italy |
Principality of Albania | Serbo-Italian backed Republic of Central Albania Victory
|
Serbian campaign and Balkans theatre (1914–1918) Part of the European theatre of World War I |
Allied Powers
|
Central Powers:
|
Victory |
Revolutions of 1917–23
|
Victory
| ||
1918–1920 unrest in Split
(1918–1920) Part of the Adriatic question |
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes United States | Italian nationalists renegades | Victory |
Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia (1918–1919) Part of the aftermath of World War I |
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | German-Austria | Military victory
|
Christmas Uprising (1919) Part of the aftermath of World War I and the creation of Yugoslavia |
|
|
Montenegrin Whites Victory
|
Drenica-Dukagjin Uprisings (1919-1924) |
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
Victory
| |
Koplik War (1920-1921) |
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
Principality of Albania | Mixed results
|
Albanian-Yugoslav Border War (1921) |
Republic of Mirdita |
Principality of Albania | Peace brokered by the League of Nations
|
Zogu Invasion of Albania (1924) |
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
|
Fan Noli supporters (Albanian peasants) Principality of Albania Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo |
Zogu-Yugoslav Victory
|
Invasion of Yugoslavia (1941) Part of the Balkans campaign and Mediterranean theatre of World War II |
Yugoslavia | Axis | Defeat
|
World War II in Yugoslavia (1941–1945) Part of the European theatre of World War II |
Allies
Bulgaria (1944–45)
Other factions:
Yugoslav government-in-exile (1941–44)
Western Allies:
|
Axis
German puppet states and governments:
|
Yugoslav Partisan Victory
|
Ten-Day War
(1991) Part of the Yugoslav Wars |
SFR Yugoslavia | Slovenia | Defeat
|
Croatian War of Independence[b] (1991–1995) Part of the Yugoslav Wars |
FR Yugoslavia
|
|
Defeat
|
FR Yugoslavia
|
NATO (1995) |
Military stalemate
| |
Kosovo War (1998–1999) Part of the Yugoslav Wars |
FR Yugoslavia
|
UÇK NATO (1999)
Supported by: |
Military Stalemate[17]
|
Insurgency in the Preševo Valley (1999–2001) [citation needed]Part of the Yugoslav Wars |
FR Yugoslavia
|
UÇPMB | Victory[18] |
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Acceded to the Tripartite Pact, generally considered Axis powers (see e.g., Facts About the American Wars, Bowman, p. 432, which includes them in a list of "Axis powers", or The Library of Congress World War II Companion, Wagner, Osborne, & Reyburn, p. 39, which lists them as "The Axis").
- ^ Direct involvement until early 1992. After the proclamation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in April 1992, all units of former Yugoslav People's Army were withdrawn from territories of Croatia and Bosnia. Despite this, various paramilitary groups from FRY continued to fight in Croatia
- ^ Officially Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (and Serbia as part of it) did not participate in Bosnian War. However, various Serbian paramilitaries were directly involved in conflicts.
- S2CID 222355180.
- ^ ISBN 9781498585873.
- ISBN 9780520218222.
- ISBN 951-50-1534-0.
- ^ Daur, Soner. Plevne'de Çerkesler
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- ^ Egidio Ivetic, Le guerre balcaniche, il Mulino - Universale Paperbacks, 2006, p. 63
- ^ "Там /в Плевенско и Търновско/ действително се говори, че тези черкези отвличат деца от българи, загинали през последните събития." (Из доклада на английския консул в Русе Р. Рийд от 16.06.1876 г. до английския посланик в Цариград Х. Елиот. в Н. Тодоров, Положението, с. 316)
- ^ Hacısalihoğlu, Mehmet. Kafkasya'da Rus Kolonizasyonu, Savaş ve Sürgün (PDF). Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi.
- ^ BOA, HR. SYS. 1219/5, lef 28, p. 4
- ^ Karataş, Ömer. The Settlement of the Caucasian Emigrants in the Balkans during lkans duringthe 19th Century Century
- ISBN 9781845112875. "When the First Balkan War broke out, a majority of Albanians, even habitual rebels such as Isa Boletin, rallied in defense of the din ve devlet ve vatan in order to preserve intact their Albanian lands. Lacking a national organization of their own, Albanians had no choice but to rely on Ottoman institutions, its army, and its government for protection from partition. Both failed them miserably in the face of four invading Balkan armies, and as a result foreign invasion and occupation severed that link between the Albanian Eagle and the Ottoman Crescent."
- ISBN 9798840949085.
The Albanian forces fought on the side of Turkey not because they desired a continuance of Turkish rule but because they believed that together with the Turks, they would be able to defend their territory and prevent the partition of "Greater Albania
- ISBN 978-1-134-58363-8. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
Ottoman regulars supported by Albanian irregulars continued in central and southern Albania even after the signing of the armistice in December 1912
- ISBN 9781315297927.
- ^ "Croats and Serbs still bitter after genocide verdict". BBC News. 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
- ^ References:
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- Biddle, Stephen (2002). "The new way of war? Debating the Kosovo model". Foreign Affairs. 81 (3): 148–139. JSTOR 20033168.
- Dixon, Paul (2003). "Victory by spin? Britain, the US and the propaganda war over Kosovo". Civil Wars. 6 (4): 83–106. .
- Harvey, Frank P (2006). "Getting NATO's success in Kosovo right: The theory and logic of counter-coercion". Conflict Management and Peace Science. 23 (2): 139–158. JSTOR 26275265.
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- ^ a b Holley, David (25 May 2001). "Yugoslavia Occupies Last of Kosovo Buffer". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ^ "Southern Serbia's Fragile Peace". International Crisis Group. 9 December 2003. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2012.