List of wars involving Tunisia

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History of Tunisia

Prehistoric

| Prehistory|

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Ancient

|  Carthage| 12th C.-146 BC

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1st Roman (Province)| 146 BC-435
Vandal| 435-534
2nd Roman (Byzantine) / Byzantine North Africa| 534-698
Prefecture| 534-590
Exarchate| 590-698

Early Islamic

|  Umayyad| 698-750

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Abbasid| 750-800
Aghlabid| 800-909
Fatimid| 909-973

Medieval

|  Zirid| 973-1148

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Norman| 1148-1160
Almohad| 1160-1229
Hafsid| 1229-1574

Early modern

|  Ottoman|  1574-1705

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Husainid|  1705-1881

Modern

|  French Tunisia|  1881-1956

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Kingdom of Tunisia|  1956-1957
Bourguiba rule|  1957-1987
Ben Ali coup|  1987
Ben Ali rule|  1987-2011
Tunisian revolution|  2011
Parliamentary system|  2011-present

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This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Tunisia and its predecessor states.

## Hafsid dynasty (1229–1574)[edit]

Conflict  | Allie(s)  | Enemie(s)  | Result

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Eighth Crusade
(1270)  |  Sultanate of Tunis |  Kingdom of France | Hafsid Victory

* Treaty of Tunis
* Death of Louis IX
* Opening of trade with Tunis
* Withdrawal of the Crusaders from Tunisia

Collo Expedition [ca]
(1282)  |  Sultanate of Tunis |  Crown of Aragon
Tunisian rebels  | Victory

* Rebels defeated
* Withdrawal of Aragonese troops

Capture of Djerba and Kerkennah
(1284-1286)  |  Sultanate of Tunis |  Kingdom of Sicily | Defeat

* Djerba and the Kerkennah islands occupied by the Sicilians

Battle of Temzezdekt
(1327)  |  Sultanate of Tunis |  Kingdom of Tlemcen | Defeat

* Zayyanid Victory

Battle of er-Rias
(1329)  |  Sultanate of Tunis |  Kingdom of Tlemcen | Defeat

* Zayyanid Victory

Capture of Tunis (1329)
(1329)  |  Sultanate of Tunis |  Kingdom of Tlemcen | Defeat

* Tunis becomes a vassal of the Zayyanids until May 1330

Siege of Béjaïa (1326-1329)
(1326-1329)  |  Sultanate of Tunis |  Kingdom of Tlemcen | Victory

* Zayyanids failed to capture Bejaïa

Siege of Béjaïa
(1331–1332)  |  Sultanate of Tunis
Sultanate of Morocco |  Kingdom of Tlemcen | Victory

* Zayyanid withdrawal

Battle of Kairouan
(1348)  |  Sultanate of Tunis
Kingdom of Tlemcen |  Sultanate of Morocco | Victory

* Marinid withdrawal from Tlemcen and Tunis

Barbary Crusade
(1390)  |  Sultanate of Tunis
Kingdom of Tlemcen |  Republic of Genoa
Kingdom of France | Victory

* Crusader withdrawal.

Bona crusade
(1399)  |  Sultanate of Tunis |  Crown of Aragon | Victory

* Aragonese armies retreat.
* Peace Treaty with Crown of Aragon.

Capture of Algiers

(1410)

|  Sultanate of Tunis |  Sultanate of Morocco
Tunisian rebels  | Victory

* Marinid armies retreat from the region.
* Hafsid Tunisia subdue the Kingdom of Tlemcen.
* Hafsid Tunisia starts actively interfering within Marinid and Andalusian affairs.

Siege of Malta
(1429)  |  Sultanate of Tunis |  Kingdom of Sicily
Malta | Withdrawal

* Looting of Maltese cities.

Capture of Béjaïa (1510)
(1510)  |  Emirate of Béjaïa |  Ottoman Empire
Spain | Defeat

* Béjaïa lost to the Spanish.

Capture of Béjaïa (1512)
(1512)  |  Emirate of Béjaïa |  Spain | Defeat

* Failure to recover Béjaïa.

Conquest of Tunis
(1534)  |  Sultanate of Tunis |  Ottoman Empire | Defeat

* Tunis under Ottoman rule.

Conquest of Tunis
(1535)  |  Ottoman Empire |  Sultanate of Tunis
Spain | Defeat

* Tunis under Spanish rule.[1]

Conquest of Tunis
(1574)  |  Sultanate of Tunis
Spain |  Ottoman Empire | Defeat

* Tunis back under Ottoman rule.

## Ottoman Tunis (1574–1705)[edit]

Conflict  | Allie(s)  | Enemie(s)  | Result

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Morean War
(1684–1699)  |  Ottoman Empire

* Eyalet of Egypt
* Eyalet of Tripolitania

|  Republic of Venice
Knights of Malta
Duchy of Savoy | Defeat

* Morea ceded to Venice; Venetian gains in inland Dalmatia

Tunisian–Algerian War
(1694)  |  Eyalet of Tunis |  Deylik of Algiers
Support:
Pashalik of Tripolitania | Defeat

* Muradid Defeat
* Occupation Of the Regency of Tunis

Maghrebi war
(1699–1702)  |  Eyalet of Tunis

Sultanate of Morocco

Pashalik of Tripoli (1699–1700)

|  Deylik of Algiers

Pashalik of Tripoli (1700–1702)

| Defeat

* Algerian ambitions halted
* Morocco fails to expand
* Fall of the Muradid dynasty

## Beylik of Tunis (1705–1881)[edit]

Conflict  | Allie(s)  | Enemie(s)  | Result

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Tunisian Civil War
(1675–1705)  |  Pasha Party  |  Husainid Party  | Defeat of the Muradid party. Proclamation of the Husainid dynasty
Tunisian-Algerian War (1735)
(1735)  |  Beylik of Tunis |  Deylik of Algiers

* Beylik of Constantine

| Defeat

* Capture of Tunis
* Abu l-Hasan Ali I proclaimed bey of Tunis
* Tunis becomes a vassal of Algiers

Tunisian-Algerian War (1756)
(1756)  |  Beylik of Tunis |  Deylik of Algiers

* Beylik of Constantine

| Defeat

* Capture of Tunis
* Muhammad I ar-Rashid proclaimed bey of Tunis
* Tunis becomes a tributary of Algiers
* Tunis recognises the suzerainty of the Dey of Algiers

Tunisian-Venetian War
(1784–1792)  |  Beylik of Tunis |  Republic of Venice | Victory

* Tunisia victory. Republic of Venice pays huge compensation to Tunisia.

1793–95 Tripolitanian Civil War
(1793–1795)  |  Karamanli dynasty supporters
Beylik of Tunis |  Tripolitania Eyalet | Victory

* Karamanli dynasty restored to the throne of Tripolitania
* Weakening of Ottoman rule over Tripolitania

Tunisian-Tripolitan War
(1794–1795)  |  Beylik of Tunis |  Tripolitania | Victory

* Tunisian victory.

Tunisian-Algerian War (1807)
(1807)  |  Beylik of Tunis |  Deylik of Algiers

* Beylik of Constantine

| Victory

* Tunisian victory.
* Complete liberation from the guardianship of The Dey of Algeria
* Stabilization of the border

Greek War of Independence
(1821–1829)  |  Ottoman Empire

* Eyalet of Egypt
* Beylik of Tunis
* Regency of Algiers
* Tripolitania

|  Greek revolutionaries (1821)
First Hellenic Republic (from 1822)
Russian Empire
United Kingdom
France | Defeat

* Greek victory and establishment of the First Hellenic Republic
* recognition of sovereignty: London Protocol, Treaty of Constantinople

Crimean War
(1854–1856)  |  Second French Empire
British Empire
Ottoman Empire

* Beylik of Tunis
* Caucasian Imamate

|  Russian Empire | Victory

* Treaty of Paris (1856)
* Russia loses the Danube Delta and Southern Bessarabia.
* The majority of the vessels of the Beylik of Tunis has been welled

Mejba Revolt
(1864-1865)  |  Beylik of Tunis | Tax resisters  | Victory

* Revolt suppressed by the Beylik

Conquest of Tunisia
(1881)  |  Beylik of Tunis |  France | Defeat

* Tunisia became a French protectorate.

## French Tunisia (1881-1956)[edit]

Conflict  | Allie(s)  | Enemie(s)  | Result

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Tunisian campaign
(1942-1943)
Part of World War II |  United Kingdom

* India

New Zealand
Greece
United States
Free France

* 4th Tunisian Tirailleurs Regiment

|  Germany
Italy
Vichy France | Liberation of Tunisia by the Allies

## Republic of Tunisia (1956-present)[edit]

Conflict  | Allie(s)  | Enemie(s)  | Result

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Bizerte Crisis
(1961)  |  Tunisia |  France |

LOST

* French military victory, (the evacuation of French troops from the city of Bizerte 2 years later).

October War
(1973)  |  Egypt
Syria
Iraq
Jordan
Algeria
Cuba
Morocco
Tunisia |  Israel | Defeat[2]

* Syrian invasion of Israel repelled; UN ceasefire.
* Geneva Conference and the Sinai II Agreement.
* Egypt–Israel peace treaty
* Strategic Political Gains for Egypt and Israel

Battle of Wazzin
(2011)
Part of the First Libyan Civil War |  Tunisia

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Anti-Gaddafi forces

|  Armed Forces of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | Victory

* Rebel forces capture Wazzin on 21 April
* Loyalist forces retake the border crossing on 28 April
* Tenuous rebel hold on Wazzin by 4 May,[3] fighting ongoing after Libyan Army clashes with Tunisian Army
* Loyalist forces occasionally shelled the crossing for months afterward

Chaambi Operations
(2012–2019)  |  Tunisia |  Ansar al-Sharia
AQIM
Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade | Victory

* Tunisian National Guard eliminates Okba Ibn Nafaa commanders on 28 March 2015 and continues to eliminate many more afterwards
* Declaration of certain mountain areas as military locked zones that require prior authorization to enter for non-military entities

Raoued Operation
(2014)  |  Tunisia |  Ansar al-Sharia | Victory

* Tunisian National Guard eliminates Kamel Gadhgadhi, a leader of Ansar al-Sharia, suspected of the February 2013 assassination of Chokri Belaid, and a participant in the Battle of Chaambi.

ISIL insurgency in Tunisia
(2015–2022)  |  Tunisia |  ISIL | Victory

* Tunisian forces defeat ISIL in the Battle of Ben Guerdane in 2016
* Tunisian National Guard eliminates ISIL commanders on 19 March 2019

## See also[edit]

* Hilalian invasion of Ifriqiya
* Battle of Balaclava
* Battle of Monte Cassino
* Operation Wooden Leg

## References[edit]

* Ian Fletcher and Natalia Ishchenko, The Crimean War: A Clash of Empires, Staplehurst Kent, 2004, p.159
* Laurence Oliphant: The Trans-Caucasian Campaign of the Turkish Army Under Omer Pasha, London, 1856
* Randier La Royale Editions Babouji 2006, ISBN 2-35261-022-2
* TIME: The Wages of Moderation (Jul. 28, 1961)
* Leaders: Crimée-Tunisie: le souvenir du contingent de 15 000 soldats de l'armée beylicale (13.03.2014)

1. ^ History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey Ezel Kural Shaw
2. ^ References:
* Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward
* Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1974, page 450
* Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, MA, Abt Books, 1983
* Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, Schocken Books, 2004. Page 498
* 0-313-31302-4&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P.R. Kumaraswamy, pages 1–2
* Johnson and Tierney, Failing To Win, Perception of Victory and Defeat in International Politics. Page 177
* Charles Liebman, The Myth of Defeat: The Memory of the Yom Kippur war in Israeli Society[permanent dead link] Middle Eastern Studies, Vol 29, No. 3, July 1993. Published by Frank Cass, London. Page 411.
3. ^ "Libyan Rebels Hang on to Strategic Border Crossing". NPR.org.

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