List of wars involving Serbia

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

Late modern period

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Serbian revolution (1804–1817)
Uprising against the Dahije (1804)	Serb rebels	Dahije	Victory Outbreak of First Serbian Uprising
First Serbian Uprising (1804–1813)	Serbia Aided by:  Russia (1807–12)	Dahije (1804)  Ottoman Empire	Defeat Ottoman suppression Abolishment of Serbian rebel government Outbreak of Hadži Prodan's Revolt
Tican's Rebellion (1807)	Serb peasants in Syrmia	Austria	Defeat The rebellion was suppressed
Hadži Prodan's Revolt (1814)	Serb rebels	Ottoman Empire	Defeat The Ottomans inflicted more persecution against the Serbs Outbreak of Second Serbian Uprising
Second Serbian Uprising (1815–1817)	Serb rebels	Ottoman Empire	Victory Establishment of the Principality of Serbia
Principality of Serbia (1815–1882)
Niš Rebellion (1821)	Serb rebels	Ottoman Empire	Defeat Rebellion suppressed by the Ottomans
Niš Rebellion (1841)	Serb rebels	Ottoman Empire	Defeat 10–11,000 Serbs fled to the Principality of Serbia
Serb Uprising (1848–49)	Serbs in Austria Serbian volunteers Aided by:  Austria	Hungary	Victory Establishment of the autonomous Serbian Vojvodina
Herzegovina Uprising (Nevesinje gun) (1875–77)	Serb rebels Aided by:  Serbia  Montenegro	Ottoman Empire	Victory Great Eastern Crisis Outbreak of Serbian–Ottoman War Outbreak of Montenegrin–Ottoman War [1]
Serbian-Ottoman War (1876–1878)	Serbia	Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of San Stefano Treaty of Berlin de jure independence of Serbia
Russo-Turkish war (1877–1878)	Russia Romania Serbia  Montenegro Bulgaria	Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of San Stefano Treaty of Berlin de jure independence of Romania, Serbia and Montenegro.
Kumanovo Uprising (1878)	Serb rebels	Ottoman Empire	Defeat The uprising was suppressed by the Ottomans

Contemporary history

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Kingdom of Serbia (1882–1918)
Timok Rebellion (1883)	Milan I Government	People's Radical Party	Government Victory Rebellion suppressed. Many rebels executed.
Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885)	Serbia	Bulgaria	Defeat Recognition of the Bulgarian unification.
First Balkan War (1912–1913)	Serbia  Montenegro  Bulgaria  Greece	Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of London Outbreak of the Second Balkan War.
Tikveš Uprising (1913)	Serbia	IMRO  Bulgaria	Victory Suppression of Insurgency. Outbreak of the Second Balkan War..
Second Balkan War (1913)	Serbia  Montenegro  Greece  Romania  Ottoman Empire	Bulgaria	Victory Bulgaria defeated. Treaty of Bucharest (1913).
Ohrid-Debar Uprising (1913)	Serbia	Kachaks Albania IMRO  Bulgaria	Victory Suppresion of Insurgency. Executions of local Albanians and Bulgarians.
Serbian Campaign (World War I) (1914–1918)	Serbia  Montenegro  Russia (1916-1917) United Kingdom (1915–18) France (1915–18)  Greece (1917–18)	Austria-Hungary  Bulgaria (1915-18)  Germany (1915-18)  Ottoman Empire (1916-18)	Victory Serbia restores control of territory, and annexes regions left of Sava and Danube (mainly Vojvodina). Montenegro officially became part of Serbia Treaty of Neuilly Treaty of Bucharest (1918)
Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941)
Christmas Uprising (1919)	Montenegrin Whites  Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes	Montenegrin Greens  Italy	Victory The uprising was put down
April War (1941)	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	Germany  Italy  Hungary	Defeat Occupation of Yugoslavia by the Axis Partition of Yugoslavia between the Axis Creation of pro-Axis puppet states World War II in Yugoslavia
World War II in Yugoslavia (1941–1945)	Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1941) Chetniks Partisans  United Kingdom  Soviet Union (1944–45) Bulgaria (1944–45) Albania (1944–45)  United States (1943–45)	Germany  Italy (until 1943)  Croatia Serbia Chetniks  Hungary  Bulgaria (until 1944) Albania (1943–44)	Partisans Victory German and Italian withdrawal from Yugoslavia. Partition of Serbia. Creation of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
SFR Yugoslavia (1945–1992)
Ten-Day War (1991)	SFR Yugoslavia	Slovenia	Defeat Brioni Agreement, Slovenian independence.
Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995)	SFR Yugoslavia (until 1992) Serbian Krajina  Republika Srpska (1992–95)	Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina (1995)  NATO (1995)	Defeat Sarajevo Agreement, JNA withdrawal. Reintegration of Krajina into Croatia.
Bosnian War (1992–1995)	SFR Yugoslavia (until 1992)  Republika Srpska Serbian Krajina AP Western Bosnia (1993–95)	Bosnia and Herzegovina (until 1994)  Herzeg-Bosnia (until 1994)  Croatia (until 1994) Bosnia and Herzegovina (1994–95)  Croatia (1994–95)  NATO (1995)	Dayton Accords Internal partition of Bosnia. Deployment of NATO-led IFOR.
FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006)
Kosovo War (1998–1999)	FR Yugoslavia	Kosovo Liberation Army (UÇK)  NATO  Belgium  Canada  Czech Republic  Denmark  France  Germany  Hungary  Iceland  Italy  Luxembourg  Netherlands  Norway  Poland  Portugal  Spain  Turkey  United Kingdom  United States  Albania	Defeat Kumanovo Treaty Yugoslav security forces pull out of Kosovo KLA disarmed in Kosovo Kosovo remains a province of Yugoslavia United Nations Resolution 1244 KLA veterans join the UÇPMB, starting the Preševo insurgency.
Insurgency in the Preševo Valley (1999–2001)	FR Yugoslavia	Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (UÇPMB)	Victory UÇPMB disbanded Konculj Agreement (peace) Former UÇPMB and KLA veterans regroup and form the NLA; start of 2001 insurgency in Macedonia

See also

• List of wars involving Serbia in the Middle Ages
• List of fortifications in Serbia

Footnotes