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List of wars involving Slovenia

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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

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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

Savoy 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)

Austria 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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