List of wars involving Serbia

The following is a list of wars involving Serbia in the late modern period and contemporary history.

This article is about conflicts involving modern Serbia. For conflict involving the medieval state, see List of wars involving Serbia in the Middle Ages.

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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
First Serbian Uprising (1804–1813) Part of the Serbian Revolution	Serbia Supported by:  Russia (1807–12)	Ottoman Empire (from 1805) Dahijas (1804)	Defeat Ottoman suppression Abolishment of Serbian rebel government
Hadži-Prodan's Revolt (1814) Part of the Serbian Revolution	Serbian rebels	Ottoman Empire	Defeat Uprising suppressed
Second Serbian Uprising (1815–1817) Part of the Serbian Revolution	Serbian rebels	Ottoman Empire	Victory Establishment of the autonomous Principality of Serbia Ottoman Empire loses control over the Sanjak of Smederevo
Serb uprising (1848–1849) Part of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire	Serbian Vojvodina Serbian volunteers  Austria  Russia	Hungary  Hungarian State (1849)	Victory Establishment of the autonomous Serbian Vojvodina
Herzegovina uprising (1875–1877)	Serb rebels Supported by: Serbia  Montenegro	Ottoman Empire	Great Eastern Crisis Serbian–Ottoman Wars Montenegrin–Ottoman War
First Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–1877) Part of the Great Eastern Crisis	Serbia	Ottoman Empire	Defeat Russian-mediated truce
Second Serbian–Ottoman War (1877–1878) Part of the Great Eastern Crisis and the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)	Serbia  Russia	Ottoman Empire	Victory De jure independence of Serbia Treaty of San Stefano Treaty of Berlin
Timok Rebellion (1883)	Royal forces of King Milan	Radical-led rebels	Royalist victory Rebellion suppressed
Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885)	Serbia	Bulgaria	Defeat Recognition of Bulgarian unification
First Balkan War (1912–1913) Part of the Balkan Wars	Balkan League  Serbia  Montenegro  Bulgaria  Greece	Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of London
Second Balkan War (1913) Part of the Balkan Wars	Serbia  Montenegro  Greece  Romania  Ottoman Empire	Bulgaria	Victory Bulgarian defeat Treaty of Bucharest Treaty of Constantinople
Ohrid-Debar Uprising (1913)	Serbia	IMRO Kachaks Supported by: Albania	Victory Suppression of uprising
Serbian Campaign (1914–1918) Part of the World War I	Allies  Serbia  Montenegro  Russia (until 1917)  United Kingdom (from 1915) France (from 1915)  Italy (from 1916)  Greece (from 1917)  Romania (1916)	Central Powers  Austria-Hungary  Bulgaria (from 1915)  Germany (from 1915)	Victory Liberation of Serbia Dissolution of Austria-Hungary Creation of Yugoslavia Treaty of Versailles Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye Treaty of Neuilly Treaty of Trianon Treaty of Sèvres
Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–1920) Part of the aftermath of World War I and the Revolutions of 1917–23	Czechoslovakia  Romania  Yugoslavia Prekmurje Hungary France	Hungarian Republic Hungarian Soviet Republic Slovak Soviet Republic	Victory Hungarian defeat Collapse of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia (1918–1919) Part of the aftermath of World War I	Yugoslavia	German-Austria  Carinthia	Ceasefire Carinthian plebiscite
Christmas Uprising (1919)	Montenegrin Whites  Yugoslavia	Montenegrin Greens  Italy	Victory Uprising suppressed
Invasion of Yugoslavia (1941) Part of the World War II	Yugoslavia	Axis  Germany  Italy  Hungary	Defeat Axis occupation of Serbia Partition of Yugoslavia between the Axis Creation of pro-Axis puppet regimes Continued anti-Axis resistance and beginning of Yugoslav civil war
World War II in Yugoslavia (1941–1945) Part of the World War II	Allies Partisans  Soviet Union (from 1944) Aerial and logistics support:  United Kingdom (1943–45)  United States (limited) Former Axis powers:  Bulgaria (1944–45) Other Allied factions: LANÇ (1944–45) Supported by: Yugoslav government-in-exile (1944–45) Chetniks Supported by: Yugoslav government-in-exile (1941–44) Western Allies:  United Kingdom (1941–43)  United States (1941–43)	Axis  Germany Government of National Salvation (1941–44) Albania (1943–44)  Italy (1941–43) Albania (1941–43)  Hungary  Bulgaria (1941–44)  Croatia Chetniks	Victory (to the Partisans) Defeat of Nazi Germany and Axis in Yugoslavia Defeat and overthrow of the Independent State of Croatia, Government of National Salvation and other Axis collaborators Defeat and liquidation of Chetniks by the Yugoslav Communists Communist-led Partisans abolish the Yugoslav monarchy Establishment of Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
War in Croatia (1991–1995) Part of the Yugoslav Wars	Serbian Krajina SFR Yugoslavia (1991–92)  Republika Srpska (1992–95)	Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina (1994–95) Supported by:  NATO	Defeat Decline of Republic of Serbian Krajina Exodus of Serb civilians Erdut Agreement
War in Bosnia (1992–1995) Part of the Yugoslav Wars	Republika Srpska Serbian Krajina Western Bosnia (1993–95) Supported by:  FR Yugoslavia	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Croatian Herzeg-Bosnia  Croatia  NATO (1995)  Belgium  Canada  Denmark  France  Germany  Italy  Luxembourg  Netherlands  Norway  Portugal  Spain  Turkey  United Kingdom United States	Military stalemate Internal partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the Dayton Accords Over 101,000 dead Deployment of NATO-led forces to oversee the peace agreement
Kosovo War (1998–1999) Part of the Yugoslav Wars	FR Yugoslavia	UÇK  NATO (1999)  Belgium  Canada  Denmark  France  Germany  Italy  Luxembourg  Netherlands  Norway  Portugal  Spain  Turkey  United Kingdom United States	Defeat[1] Kumanovo Treaty Yugoslav forces pull out of Kosovo FR Yugoslavia de facto loses control over Kosovo United Nations Resolution 1244 Expulsion of over half of the Serb and other non-Albanian civilians UÇK veterans join the UÇPMB, starting the Preševo insurgency Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in 2000
Insurgency in the Preševo Valley (1999–2001) Part of the Yugoslav Wars	FR Yugoslavia	UÇPMB	Victory[2] Konculj Agreement[3] UÇPMB disbanded

See also

• List of wars involving Serbia in the Middle Ages
• List of fortifications in Serbia
• List of wars involving Yugoslavia

Footnotes

1. References:
   • Stigler, Andrew L. "A clear victory for air power: NATO's empty threat to invade Kosovo." International Security 27.3 (2003): 124-157.
   • Biddle, Stephen. "The new way of war? Debating the Kosovo model." (2002): 138-144.
   • Dixon, Paul. "Victory by spin? Britain, the US and the propaganda war over Kosovo." Civil Wars 6.4 (2003): 83-106.
   • Harvey, Frank P. "Getting NATO's success in Kosovo right: The theory and logic of counter-coercion." Conflict Management and Peace Science 23.2 (2006): 139-158.
2. David Holley (25 May 2001). "Yugoslavia Occupies Last of Kosovo Buffer". LA Times. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)