List of wars involving Slovenia
The following is an incomplete list of wars fought by Slovenia, by its people or regular armies during periods when Slovene states (whether constituent or sovereign) existed, from antiquity to the present day.[a]
The list gives the name, the date, combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:
- Slovenian victory
- Slovenian defeat
- Another result
*e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Slovenia, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result.
16th century
[edit]Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1515 | All-Slovene Peasant Uprising | Holy Roman mercenaries and nobility | Slovenian peasant rebels | Peasant defeat |
1573 | Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt | Croatian, Styrian and Carniolan nobility | Croatian and Slovenian peasant rebels | Peasant defeat |
1593–1606 | Long Turkish War | Holy Roman Empire | Ottoman Empire | Inconclusive |
17th century
[edit]Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1663–1664 | Austro-Turkish War | Holy Roman Empire | Ottoman Empire | Austria and allies military victory Ottoman commercial and diplomatic victory |
1683–1699 | Great Turkish War | Holy Roman Empire and Habsburg Monarchy | Ottoman Empire | Victory |
19th century
[edit]Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1803–1815 | Napoleonic Wars | French Republic (until 1804)
First French Empire (1804–1815) |
Austrian Empire United Kingdom Russian Empire |
Defeat |
1848–1849 | Hungarian Revolution of 1848 | Hungarian nationalists
Slovenian nationalists and peasants
|
Austria and Allies: |
Defeat, Austro-Russian victory.
|
1878 | Austro-Hungarian Campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878 | Austria-Hungary
|
Bosnia Eyalet Ottoman Empire |
Victory |
World War I
[edit]Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1914–1918 | World War I | Central Powers:
Austria-Hungary |
Allies: France |
Defeat, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is dissolved. |
1918–1919 | Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia | State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (before unification)
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (after unification) |
German-Austria
|
Ceasefire
|
1919 | Prekmurje and Yugoslav Clashes against Hungary of 1919 | Republic of Prekmurje (before Bela Kun's invasion and the occupation by Hungary) Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
|
Hungarian Soviet Republic | Compromised victory
|
World War II
[edit]Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1941 | World War II — Invasion of Yugoslavia | Yugoslavia | Germany Italy Hungary |
Axis victory
|
1941–1945 | World War II — World War II in Yugoslavia | Partisans
Soviet Union (1944–45) |
Germany Italy (until 1943) |
Allied victory |
Since World War II
[edit]Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1991 | Ten-Day War | Slovenia | Yugoslavia | Decisive Slovenian victory
|
Peacekeeping missions
[edit]Mission | Start-date | End-date | Location | Troops deployed |
---|---|---|---|---|
KFOR | ? | Ongoing | Kosovo | 316 |
Notes
[edit]- ^ For the purposes of this list, the following historic polities will be considered predecessors of the present-day Republic of Slovenia:
- Duchy of Styria and Duchy of Carniola
- Illyrian Provinces
- Republic of Prekmurje
- State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs
- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (after 1929: Drava Banovina in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia)
- Socialist Republic of Slovenia (as part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).