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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

## 16th century

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Date  | Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result

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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

* Habsburg Monarchy
* Saxony
* Tuscany
* Duchy of Ferrara
* Duchy of Mantua
* Duchy of Savoy
* Kingdom of Hungary
* Kingdom of Croatia
* Duchy of Carniola

Principality of Transylvania

Wallachia

Moldavia

France

Spain

Papal States

|  Ottoman Empire

* Crimean Khanate

| Inconclusive

* Peace of Zsitvatorok

## 17th century

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Date  | Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result

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1663–1664  | Austro-Turkish War |  Holy Roman Empire

* Electorate of Saxony
* Brandenburg-Prussia
* Habsburg monarchy
* Electorate of Bavaria
* Duchy of Styria
* Serbia
* Duchy of Carniola

Piedmont-Savoy

League of the Rhine

* Baden-Baden
* Swabia
* Kingdom of France

Kingdom of Hungary

Kingdom of Croatia

|  Ottoman Empire

* Crimean Khanate

| Austria and allies military victory Ottoman commercial and diplomatic victory

* Peace of Vasvár

1683–1699  | Great Turkish War |  Holy Roman Empire and Habsburg Monarchy

* Bavaria
* Franconia
* Saxony
* Duchy of Styria
* Royal Hungary
* Kingdom of Croatia

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Tsardom of Russia

Republic of Venice

|  Ottoman Empire

Crimean Khanate

| Victory

* Treaty of Karlowitz

## 19th century

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Date  | Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result

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1803–1815  | Napoleonic Wars |  French Republic (until 1804)

First French Empire (1804–1815)

* Illyrian Provinces

|  Austrian Empire
United Kingdom
Russian Empire | Defeat

* Congress of Vienna

1848–1849  | Hungarian Revolution of 1848 | Hungarian nationalists

Hungary

* Hungarian Slovenes
* Rusyns
* Zipser Saxons
* Hungarian Germans
* Banat Bulgarians
* Polish legions
* German and Viennese legion

Slovenian nationalists and peasants

* Radical dissidents of the Zedinjena Slovenija movement (minor confrontations only)
* Peasant's revolts in Ig and elsewhere

| Austria and Allies:

Austria

* Kingdom of Croatia
* Serbian Vojvodina
* Serbian volunteers
* Habsburg Hungarians
* Slovak National Council
* Transylvanian Romanians
* Ljubljana City Guard Militia

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

* Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina begins

## World War I

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Main article: History of Slovenia § World War One

Date  | Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result

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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.

* Paris Peace Conference, 1919
* Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)

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

* Serbian Units of the Donavska Banovina of the SHS Kingdom (clean-up following the demise of the occupation)

|  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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Main article: Slovene Lands in World War II

Date  | Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result

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1941  | World War II — Invasion of Yugoslavia |  Yugoslavia |  Germany
Italy
Hungary | Axis victory

* Occupation of Yugoslavia
* Partition of Yugoslavia between the Axis
* Creation of pro-Axis puppet regimes

1941–1945  | World War II — World 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

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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

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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:
* 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).

## References

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