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 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)
Early Croatian duchies (7th century–925)
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
791 | Charlemagne's expedition against the Avars | Francia Duchy of Pannonian Croatia |
Avar Khaganate | Victory
|
799 | Frankish campaign against Avars and Slavs | Duchy of Dalmatian Croatia | Francia | Victory |
819–822 | Ljudevit Posavski's rebellion | Duchy of Pannonian Croatia | Francia Duchy of Dalmatian Croatia |
Defeat of Pannonian Croatia |
?–830 | Narentine-Venetian war | Narentines | Peace agreement | |
839 | Narentine-Venetian war | Narentines Duchy of Dalmatian Croatia |
Peace agreement | |
840 | Narentine-Venetian war | Narentines | Victory | |
846–848 | Croatian-Byzantine War | Duchy of Dalmatian Croatia | Zadar under the Byzantine strategos | Victory |
854 | First Croatian-Bulgarian War | Duchy of Dalmatian Croatia | Peace agreement
| |
871 | Conquest of Bari | Lombards Croatian fleet |
Emirate of Bari | Victory |
865 | Croatian-Venetian War | Duchy of Dalmatian Croatia | Peace agreement | |
887 | Narentine-Venetian War | Narentines Duchy of Dalmatian Croatia |
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 | Kievan Rus' (until 969) Principality of Duklja |
Kievan Rus' (970–971) Pechenegs |
Victory |
997–1000 | Third Croatian-Bulgarian War | Croatian defeat but Bulgarian withdrawal | ||
c. 1040–1185 | Byzantine–Norman wars | Serbs (Duklja and Raška) |
Victory | |
1091–1105 | War of the Croatian Succession |
|
|
Defeat
|
Croatia in personal union with Hungary (1102–1527)
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1108 | Hungarian war with the Holy Roman Empire | Duchy of Bohemia |
Victory | |
1108–1126 | Hungarian-Bohemian wars | Duchy of Bohemia | 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 | Duchy of Bavaria |
Victory | |
1149–1152 | Géza II's intervention in the conflict between the Principality of Halych and Kievan Rus' | 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 | Ladislaus and Stephen's army | Stephen III's victory | |
1180–1184 | Hungarian-Byzantine war | Victory | ||
1188–1189 | Béla III's military campaign against Halych | Principality of 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 | Grand Principality of Serbia Kingdom of Bosnia |
Croatian/Hungarian victories | |
1202–1204 | Fourth Crusade | Soldiers 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 | Duchy of Austria |
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 | Victory | ||
1282 | Cuman uprising | Cumans | Victory | |
1285–1286 | Second Mongol invasion of Hungary | Victory | ||
1291 | German-Hungarian War | 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 | Duchy of Austria |
Duchy of Bavaria 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 | Duchy of Austria 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 | Republic of Venice | Victory | |
1345 | Hungarian war with the Golden Horde for Moldavia | Victory
| ||
1360–1369 | Louis I's Balkan wars against Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia and Bosnia | Temporary Hungarian victories | ||
1372–1381 | War of Chioggia | Padua |
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 | Moravian Serbia |
Defeat
| |
1411–1433 | Croatian-Venetian War | Defeat
| ||
1419–1434 | Hussite Wars | Holy Roman Empire |
Hussites | Victory |
1428–1432 | War of the South Danube | 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
1919 | Christmas Uprising | Victory
| ||
1941 | Axis Invasion of Yugoslavia | Defeat
| ||
1941–1945 | World War II in Yugoslavia | Allies: Aerial role only: |
Axis powers: Axis puppet states: Co-belligerents: |
Victory
|
Republic of Croatia (1991–present)
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1991–1995 | Croatian War of Independence | Victory
| ||
1992–1995 | Bosnian War | Aerial role only: |
Supported by: |
Stalemate
|
1992–1994 | Croat-Bosniak Conflict | Inconclusive
| ||
2001– | War in Afghanistan | Croatia in the International Security Assistance Force Croatia during the Resolute Support Mission |
ISAF phase (from 2001):
Haqqani network (from 2002) RS phase (from 2015): Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Pakistani Taliban |
Ongoing
|
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