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.

New Year Attacks on Cerskio's house

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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

Uskoks

Croatian and Slovenian peasant rebels Peasant defeat
1593–1606 Long Turkish War   Holy Roman Empire

  Principality of Transylvania

  Wallachia

  Moldavia

  France

  Spain

  Papal States

  Ottoman Empire Inconclusive

17th century

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Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1663–1664 Austro-Turkish War   Holy Roman Empire

  Piedmont-Savoy

League of the Rhine

  Kingdom of Hungary

  Kingdom of Croatia

  Ottoman Empire Austria and allies military victory Ottoman commercial and diplomatic victory
1683–1699 Great Turkish War   Holy Roman Empire and Habsburg Monarchy

  Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

  Tsardom of Russia

  Republic of Venice

  Ottoman Empire

  Crimean Khanate

Victory

19th century

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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

  Hungary

  Slovenian nationalists and peasants

Austria and Allies:

  Austria

  Russian Empire

Defeat, Austro-Russian victory.
  • Feudalism is abolished in most Slovenian lands
1878 Austro-Hungarian Campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878   Austria-Hungary
  • 17th Infantry Regiment from Carniola
  Bosnia Eyalet
  Ottoman Empire
Victory

World War I

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Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1914–1918 World War I Central Powers:

  Austria-Hungary
  Germany
  Ottoman Empire
  Bulgaria (1915–18)

Allies:

  France
  British Empire
  Russia (1914–17)
  Italy
  United States (1917–18)
  Serbia
and others

Defeat, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is dissolved.
1918–1919 Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia   State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (before unification)
  • Maister's fighters

  Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (after unification)

  German-Austria
  •   Carinthia (Provisional state government of Carinthia)
Ceasefire
  • In Carinthian plebiscite southeastern Carinthia votes in favour of joining Austria.
  • Territorial changes are coordinated by Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
  • Majority of southeastern Carinthia is ceded to Austria.
  • Meža Valley and Jezersko are ceded to Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
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
  • Prekmurje Republic is secured by Yugoslav forces after being occupied by Hungary.
  • Hungarian Soviet Republic is dissolved by the Entente via Romania.

World War II

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Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1941 World War IIInvasion of Yugoslavia   Yugoslavia   Germany
  Italy
  Hungary
Axis victory
1941–1945 World War IIWorld War II in Yugoslavia   Partisans

  Soviet Union (1944–45)
  Bulgaria (1944–45)
  Albania (1944–45)
  United Kingdom (1942–1945)
  United States (limited involvement, 1943–45)

  Germany

  Italy (until 1943)
  Croatiaa
  VNSa
  Hungary
  Bulgaria (until 1944)
  Croatiaa
  VNSa (until 1944)
  Albania (1943–44)
  Slovene Home Guard (1943–45)
  Pećanac Chetniks

Allied victory

Since World War II

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Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1991 Ten-Day War   Slovenia   Yugoslavia Decisive Slovenian victory
  • Brioni Accords
    • Slovenian independence upheld and recognized by Yugoslavia

Peacekeeping missions

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Mission Start-date End-date Location Troops deployed
  KFOR ? Ongoing   Kosovo 316

Notes

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  1. ^ For the purposes of this list, the following historic polities will be considered predecessors of the present-day Republic of Slovenia:

References

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