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:
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results |
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Uprising against the Dahije (1804) |
Serbia |
Dahije | Victory
|
First Serbian Uprising (1804–1813) Part of the Serbian Revolution |
Supported by: |
Dahijas (1804) Ottoman Empire (from 1805) |
Treaty of Bucharest[2]
|
Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) Part of the Serbian Revolution and Russo-Turkish Wars |
Russian Empire Moldavia |
Victory[2] | |
Second Serbian Uprising (1815–1817) Part of the Serbian Revolution |
Serbian rebels | Ottoman Empire | Victory
|
Niš Rebellion (1821) |
Serb rebels | Ottoman Empire | Defeat
|
Serb uprising (1848–1849) Part of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire |
Victory
| ||
Herzegovina uprising (1875–1877) Part of the Great Eastern Crisis |
Serb rebels Supported by: Serbia Montenegro |
Ottoman Empire | |
First Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–1877) Part of the Great Eastern Crisis |
Ottoman Empire | Victory
| |
Second Serbian–Ottoman War (1877–1878) Part of the Great Eastern Crisis and the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) |
Ottoman Empire | Victory
| |
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) |
Russian Empire
Principality of Romania |
Ottoman Empire
Polish volunteers |
Coalition Victory
|
Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885) |
Support by: |
Bulgaria | Defeat
|
Macedonian struggle (1901) |
Serbian Chetniks Supported by: Serbia |
VMRO Ottoman Empire |
Mixed Results
|
First Balkan War (1912–1913) Part of the Balkan Wars |
Balkan League: Supported by: | Victory[15] | |
Serbian invasion of Albania (1912–1913) Part of the Balkan Wars |
Kingdom of Serbia Kingdom of Montenegro |
Independent Albania | Victory
|
Tikveš Uprising (1913) |
Serbia Chetniks |
IMRO Supported by: Bulgaria |
Victory
|
Second Balkan War (1913) Part of the Balkan Wars |
Victory | ||
Third Peasant Revolt in Albania (September–October 1914) |
Republic of Central Albania Support: Kingdom of Serbia Kingdom of Italy |
Principality of Albania | Serbo-Italian backed Republic of Central Albania Victory
|
Serbian campaign and Balkans theatre (1914–1918) Part of the European theatre of World War I |
Allied Powers
|
Central Powers:
|
Victory |
Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–1920) Part of the aftermath of World War I and the Revolutions of 1917–23 |
Victory
| ||
1918–1920 unrest in Split
(1918–1920) Part of the Adriatic question |
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes United States | Italian nationalists renegades | Victory |
Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia (1918–1919) Part of the aftermath of World War I |
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | German-Austria | Military victory |
Christmas Uprising (1919) Part of the aftermath of World War I and the creation of Yugoslavia |
Montenegrin Whites Victory
| ||
Drenica-Dukagjin Uprisings (1919-1924) |
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
Kosovar Albanians Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo Diplomatic support: Albania |
Victory
|
Koplik War (1920-1921) |
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
Principality of Albania | Mixed results
|
Albanian-Yugoslav Border War (1921) |
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Kingdom of Greece Republic of Mirdita |
Principality of Albania | Peace brokered by the League of Nations
|
Zogu Invasion of Albania (1924) |
Ahmet Zogu supporters (Mati Tribesmen) Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
Fan Noli supporters (Albanian peasants) Principality of Albania Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo |
Zogu-Yugoslav Victory
|
Invasion of Yugoslavia (1941) Part of the Balkans campaign and Mediterranean theatre of World War II |
Yugoslavia | Axis | Defeat
|
World War II in Yugoslavia (1941–1945) Part of the European theatre of World War II |
Allies
Bulgaria (1944–45)
Other factions:
Yugoslav government-in-exile (1941–44)
Western Allies:
|
Axis
German puppet states and governments:
|
Yugoslav Partisan Victory
|
Ten-Day War
(1991) Part of the Yugoslav Wars |
SFR Yugoslavia | Slovenia | Defeat
|
Croatian War of Independence[b] (1991–1995) Part of the Yugoslav Wars |
|
|
Defeat
|
War in Bosnia[c] (1992–1995) Part of the Yugoslav Wars |
|
NATO (1995) |
Military stalemate
|
Kosovo War (1998–1999) Part of the Yugoslav Wars |
FR Yugoslavia | UÇK NATO (1999)
Supported by: |
Military Stalemate[17]
|
Insurgency in the Preševo Valley (1999–2001) [citation needed]Part of the Yugoslav Wars |
FR Yugoslavia | UÇPMB | Victory[18] |
The Albanian forces fought on the side of Turkey not because they desired a continuance of Turkish rule but because they believed that together with the Turks, they would be able to defend their territory and prevent the partition of "Greater Albania
Ottoman regulars supported by Albanian irregulars continued in central and southern Albania even after the signing of the armistice in December 1912