List of conflicts in Tunisia

Ancient Times

Carthaginian Empire

• 264 B.C.E. — 146 B.C.E. Punic Wars
  • 264 B.C.E. — 241 B.C.E. First Punic War

• • • Early 255 B.C.E. Siege of Aspis
    • Early 255 B.C.E. Battle of Adys
    • 255 B.C.E. Battle of Tunis
  • 240 B.C.E. — 238 B.C.E. Mercenary War
    • Spring 240 B.C.E. Battle of Utica
    • Autumn 240 B.C.E. Battle of the Bagradas River
    • Autumn 240 B.C.E. Hamilcar's victory with Navaras
    • 238 B.C.E. Battle of "The Saw"
    • 238 B.C.E. Siege of Tunis
  • 218 B.C.E. — 201 B.C.E. Second Punic War

• • • 203 B.C.E. Battle of Utica
    • 203 B.C.E. Battle of the Great Plains
    • October 19, 202 B.C.E. Battle of Zama
  • 149 B.C.E. — 146 B.C.E. Third Punic War
    • 147 B.C.E. Battle of the Port of Carthage
    • 147 B.C.E. Battle of Nepheris
    • circa 149 B.C.E. — Spring 146 B.C.E. Battle of Carthage

Kingdom of Numidia

• 112 B.C.E. — 106 B.C.E. Jugurthine War
  • 111 B.C.E. — 104 B.C.E. Battle of Thala
  • 110 B.C.E. Battle of Suthul
  • 108 B.C.E. Battle of the Muthul

Roman Province of Africa

• 238 C.E. Battle of Carthage
• 439 C.E. Genseric chose to break the treaty between the Vandals and the Romans when he invaded the province of Africa Proconsularis and laid siege to Carthage.^[1]
• Germanic Wars
  • 468 C.E. Battle of Cap Bon

Medieval Times

Vandal Kingdom

• June 533 C.E. — March 534 C.E. Vandalic War

• • September 13, 533 C.E. Battle of Ad Decimum
  • December 15, 533 C.E. Battle of Tricamarum

Byzantine Praetorian prefecture of Africa

• The Moorish Wars
  • 534 C.E. First Moorish uprising
  • 536 C.E. Military mutiny
  • 544 C.E. Second Moorish uprising and the revolt of Guntharic
• 577 C.E. Conflict with Moorish kingdom of Garmul

Byzantine Exarchate of Africa

• 647 C.E. — 709 C.E. Muslim conquest of the Maghreb

• • 698 C.E. Battle of Carthage

Rashidun Caliphate

• 656 C.E. — 661 C.E. First Fitna

Umayyad Caliphate

• 680 C.E. — 692 C.E. Second Fitna
• 744 C.E. — 746 C.E. Third Fitna

Abbasid Caliphate

• 809 C.E. — 827 C.E. Fourth Fitna

Fatimid Caliphate

• 1,020 C.E. Fatimid Civil War

Almohad Caliphate

• 1,160 C.E. All of Ifriqiya conquered and annexed by the Almohads ^[2]

• 1,171 C.E. — 1,172 C.E. Conquest of North Africa and Nubia by the Ayyubid Dynasty

Ayyubid dynasty

• 1,171 C.E. — 1,172 C.E. Conquest of North Africa and Nubia by the Ayyubid Dynasty

Hafsid dynasty

• 1,269 C.E. Eighth Crusade

Modern Times

Ottoman Eyalet of Tunus

• 1,526 C.E. — 1,791 C.E. Ottoman–Habsburg wars
  • August 16, 1,534 C.E. Conquest of Tunis
  • June 1,535 C.E. Conquest of Tunis
  • July 12, 1,574 C.E. — September 13, 1,574 C.E. Conquest of Tunis

French protectorate of Tunisia

• September 1, 1,939 C.E. — September 2, 1,945 C.E. World War II
  • June 10, 1,940 C.E. — May 2, 1,945 C.E. Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • June 10, 1,940 C.E. — May 13, 1,943 C.E. North African Campaign
      • November 17, 1,942 C.E. — May 13, 1,943 C.E. Tunisia Campaign
        • November 10, 1,942 C.E. — December 25, 1,942 C.E. Run for Tunis
        • February 1,943 C.E. — May 1,943 C.E. Battle of Sedjenane
        • February 14, 1,943 C.E. — February 17, 1,943 C.E. Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
        • February 19, 1,943 C.E. — February 25, 1,943 C.E. Battle of the Kasserine Pass
        • March 6, 1,943 C.E. Battle of Medenine
        • March 16, 1,943 C.E. — March 27, 1,943 C.E. Operation Pugilist
        • March 23, 1,943 C.E. — April 3, 1,943 C.E. Battle of El Guettar
        • April 5, 1,943 C.E. — April 27, 1,943 C.E. Operation Flax
        • April 6, 1,943 C.E. — April 7, 1,943 C.E. Battle of Wadi Akarit
        • April 27, 1,943 C.E. — May 1, 1,943 C.E. Battle of Hill 609
        • May 6, 1,943 C.E. — May 12, 1,943 C.E. Operation Vulcan
        • May 8, 1,943 C.E. — May 13, 1,943 C.E. Operation Retribution
• 1,952 C.E. — 1,956 C.E. Tunisian independence

Kingdom of Tunisia

• 1,952 C.E. — 1,956 C.E. Tunisian independence

Republic of Tunisia

• July 19, 1,961 C.E. — July 23, 1,961 C.E. Bizerte crisis
• December 18, 2,010 C.E. — January 14, 2,011 C.E. Tunisian revolution

References

Sources

• Collins, Roger (2000), "Vandal Africa, 429–533", The Cambridge Ancient History. Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, A.D. 425–600 XIV, Cambridge University Press, pp. 124–126 

See also

• List of wars involving Tunisia
• Tunisian Armed Forces
• Tunisian Land Army
• Tunisian Navy
• Tunisian Air Force
• Military history of Africa
• African military systems to 1,800 C.E.
• African military systems 1,800 C.E. — 1,900 C.E.
• African military systems after 1,900 C.E.

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