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.
The list gives the name, the date, combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:
*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.
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16th century Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result1515All-Slovene Peasant UprisingHoly Roman mercenaries and nobilitySlovenian peasant rebelsPeasant defeat1573Croatian–Slovene Peasant RevoltCroatian, Styrian and Carniolan nobility UskoksCroatian and Slovenian peasant rebelsPeasant defeat1593–1606Long Turkish War
Habsburg Monarchy
Tuscany Duchy of Ferrara Duchy of Mantua
Kingdom of Hungary Kingdom of Croatia Duchy of Carniola
Principality of Transylvania
Ottoman Empire Inconclusive
Peace of Zsitvatorok
17th century Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result1663–1664Austro-Turkish War
Duchy of Styria Serbia Duchy of Carniola
League of the Rhine
Kingdom of Croatia Crimean KhanateAustria and allies military victory Ottoman commercial and diplomatic victory Peace of Vasvár1683–1699Great Turkish War and Habsburg Monarchy
Bavaria Franconia
Duchy of Styria Royal Hungary Kingdom of Croatia
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Tsardom of Russia
Republic of Venice Victory
Treaty of Karlowitz
19th century Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result1803–1815Napoleonic Wars (until 1804) (1804–1815)
Illyrian ProvincesDefeat
Congress of Vienna 1848–1849 Hungarian Revolution of 1848Hungarian nationalists
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 elsewhereAustria and Allies: Austria Kingdom of Croatia Serbian Vojvodina Serbian volunteers Habsburg Hungarians Slovak National Council Transylvanian Romanians Ljubljana City Guard MilitiaDefeat, Austro-Russian victory. Feudalism is abolished in most Slovenian lands1878Austro-Hungarian Campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878 17th Infantry Regiment from CarniolaVictory
Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina begins
World War I
Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result 1914–1918 World War ICentral Powers:
(1915–18)Allies: France
(1914–17)
(1917–18)
and othersDefeat, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is dissolved. Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919) 1918–1919 Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia (before unification) Maister's fighters
(after unification) German-Austria (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.1919Prekmurje and Yugoslav Clashes against Hungary of 1919 (before Bela Kun's invasion and the occupation by Hungary)
(clean-up following the demise of the occupation)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
Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result 1941 World War II — Invasion of Yugoslavia HungaryAxis 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
Bulgaria Albania (1942–1945) )
VNS
VNS Albania Slovene Home Guard Pećanac ChetniksAllied victory
Since World War II Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result 1991 Ten-Day War Decisive Slovenian victory Brioni Accords Slovenian independence upheld and recognized by Yugoslavia
Peacekeeping missions
Mission Start-date End-date Location Troops deployed KFOR ? Ongoing 316
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