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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
 Serbia

Supported by:
 Russia (1807–12)

Dahijas (1804)
Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire (from 1805)

Supported by:
 France[1]

Treaty of Bucharest[2]
Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)
Part of the Serbian Revolution and Russo-Turkish Wars 		 Russian Empire

Moldavia
Wallachia
 Revolutionary Serbia
 Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro (1806–12)

Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire

Victory[2]
Second Serbian Uprising
(1815–1817)
Part of the Serbian Revolution 		Principality of Serbia Serbian rebels Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire Victory
Niš Rebellion
(1821) 		Serbia Serb rebels  Ottoman Empire Defeat
  • Rebellion suppressed by the Ottomans. Serbian civilians massacred.
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
First Serbian–Ottoman War
(1876–1877)
Part of the Great Eastern Crisis
 Ottoman Empire Victory
  • Political Victory
  • British public opinion turns against the Ottomans
  • Russian-mediated truce
Second Serbian–Ottoman War
(1877–1878)
Part of the Great Eastern Crisis and the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)
 Ottoman Empire

Albanian volunteers

Victory
Russo-Turkish War
(1877-1878) 		Russian Empire Russian Empire

Principality of Romania
Principality of Serbia
Principality of Montenegro
Bulgarian Legion
Serbian rebels

 Ottoman Empire

Poland Polish volunteers
Albanian volunteers
Circassia Circassian volunteers[5]
Chechen rebels
Abkhazian rebels

Coalition Victory
Serbo-Bulgarian War
(1885)
 Serbia

Support by:
 Austria-Hungary

 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:
 Ottoman Empire
Circassian volunteers[8][9][10][11]
Albanian volunteers and irregulars[12][13][14]
Victory[15]
Serbian invasion of Albania
(1912–1913)
Part of the Balkan Wars 		Kingdom of Serbia Kingdom of Serbia
Kingdom of Montenegro Kingdom of Montenegro 		Independent Albania Independent Albania

Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire
Albanian guerrillas
Albanian Tribesmen

Victory
  • Serbia and Montenegro invade and defeat Ottoman forces and capture Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Albania and Central Albania.
  • The Serbian army commits massacres against Albanians living in the occupied territories.
  • Serbia forms Drač County and other counties on Albanian-populated lands captured from the Ottomans.
  • Essad Pasha hands Shkodër over to Montenegro in return for Montenegrin support for the foundation of the Republic of Central Albania.
  • Treaty of London Serbia annexes large parts Kosovo and Macedonia and continues to occupy parts of northern Albania until 1920.
  • Albania gains Independence but loses half of its claimed territories gained after the Albanian revolt of 1912.
Tikveš Uprising
(1913) 		 Serbia
Chetniks
IMRO
Supported by:
 Bulgaria 		Victory
  • The uprising is brutally suppressed and the Bulgarian population is terrorized
Second Balkan War
(1913)
Part of the Balkan Wars
 Serbia
 Ottoman Empire
 Bulgaria
Victory
Third Peasant Revolt in Albania
(September–October 1914) 		Republic of Central Albania
Support:
Kingdom of Serbia
Kingdom of Italy Kingdom of Italy 		Principality of Albania Serbo-Italian backed Republic of Central Albania Victory
  • Toptani invades and captures Central Albania and Dibër with Italian and Serb support and reforms the Republic of Central Albania.
  • Durrës is captured by Toptani unopposed.
Serbian campaign and Balkans theatre
(1914–1918)
Part of the European theatre of World War I 		Allied Powers
 Central Powers:
 Victory
Revolutions and interventions in Hungary
(1918–1920)
Part of the aftermath of World War I and the Revolutions of 1917–23
 Kingdom of Hungary
 France
 Hungarian Soviet Republic
Victory
1918–1920 unrest in Split

(1918–1920) Part of the Adriatic question

 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes United States

 Italy

Kingdom of Italy Italian nationalists renegades

Italian Regency of Carnaro

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
  • Uprising suppressed
Drenica-Dukagjin Uprisings
(1919-1924) 		Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Kosovar Albanians
Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo
Diplomatic support:
AlbaniaAlbania 		Victory
Koplik War
(1920-1921) 		Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Principality of Albania Mixed results
  • Yugoslav army invades Northern Albania
  • Yugoslavs are eventually forced to withdraw due to international pressure
  • United Kingdom insists on slight adaptations in the regions of Debar, Prizren and Kastrati in the interest of Yugoslavia.
Albanian-Yugoslav Border War
(1921) 		Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Kingdom of Greece
Republic of Mirdita
Principality of Albania Peace brokered by the League of Nations
  • Yugoslav Recognition of Albanian sovereignty and Border
  • Slight adjustments of the Albanian border in favor of Yugoslavia
  • Mirdita rebels disbanded
Zogu Invasion of Albania
(1924) 		Albania Ahmet Zogu supporters (Mati Tribesmen)
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes 		Fan Noli supporters (Albanian peasants)
Principality of Albania
Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo 		Zogu-Yugoslav Victory
  • Fan Noli is ousted from power.
  • Ahmet Zogu forms the Albanian Republic and is made dictator.
  • Zogu's forces assassinate the leadership of the Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo.
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
Aerial and logistics support:
Former Axis powers:
 Bulgaria (1944–45)
Other factions:
Supported by:
 Chetniks
Supported by:
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Yugoslav government-in-exile (1941–44)
Western Allies:
 Axis
German puppet states and governments:
Italian protectorates and dependencies:
 Chetniks (against Partisans)
Yugoslav Partisan Victory
Ten-Day War

(1991) Part of the Yugoslav Wars

 SFR Yugoslavia  Slovenia Defeat
  • Slovenian victory
Croatian War of Independence[b]
(1991–1995)
Part of the Yugoslav Wars
Supported by:
 FR Yugoslavia
Defeat
War in Bosnia[c]
(1992–1995)
Part of the Yugoslav Wars
Supported by:
 FR Yugoslavia

 NATO (1995)

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)

Supported by:
 Albania

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

  1. ^ 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").
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ 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.
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  7. ^ Egidio Ivetic, Le guerre balcaniche, il Mulino - Universale Paperbacks, 2006, p. 63
  8. ^ "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)
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