List of wars involving Slovenia
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.
16th century
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 | Croatian and Slovenian peasant rebels | Peasant defeat |
1593–1606 | Long Turkish War | ![]() |
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Inconclusive |
17th century
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1663–1664 | Austro-Turkish War | ![]() |
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Austria and allies military victory Ottoman commercial and diplomatic victory |
1683–1699 | Great Turkish War | ![]() |
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Victory |
19th century
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1803–1815 | Napoleonic Wars | ![]()
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Defeat |
1848–1849 | Hungarian Revolution of 1848 | Hungarian nationalists
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Austria and Allies: |
Defeat, Austro-Russian victory.
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1878 | Austro-Hungarian Campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878 | ![]()
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Victory |
World War I
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1914–1918 | World War I | Central Powers:
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Allies:
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Defeat, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is dissolved. |
1918–1919 | Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia | ![]()
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Ceasefire
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1919 | Prekmurje and Yugoslav Clashes against Hungary of 1919 | ![]()
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Compromised victory
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World War II
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1941 | World War II — Invasion of Yugoslavia | ![]() |
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Axis victory
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1941–1945 | World War II — World War II in Yugoslavia | ![]()
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Allied victory |
Since World War II
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1991 | Ten-Day War | ![]() |
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Decisive Slovenian victory
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Peacekeeping missions
Mission | Start-date | End-date | Location | Troops deployed |
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? | Ongoing | ![]() |
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Notes
- ^ 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).