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List of wars involving Bulgaria

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This article lists the wars, campaigns and battles involving Bulgaria since its establishment around 680.

  Victory of Bulgaria (and allies)
  Defeat of Bulgaria (and allies)
  Another result*

*e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Bulgaria, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result.

First Bulgarian Empire (680–1018)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
First Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(680-792)
Bulgarian Empire The double-headed Byzantine Eagle. Byzantine Empire
Victory
Siege of Constantinople (717–718) Bulgarian Empire Umayyad Caliphate Victory
First Bulgarian-Serbian War
(839-842)
Bulgarian Empire Serbian Principality Defeat
Second Bulgarian-Serbian War
853
Bulgarian Empire Serbian Principality Defeat
First Bulgarian-Croatian War
(854)
Bulgarian Empire Croatian Kingdom Draw
  • Bulgarian retreat, peace treaty concluded
Third Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(894-896)
Bulgarian Empire The double-headed Byzantine Eagle. Byzantine Empire
Victory
Fourth Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(913-927)
Bulgarian Empire The double-headed Byzantine Eagle. Byzantine Empire
Victory
  • Bulgarian Empire nearly conquered Constantinople
Third Bulgarian-Serbian War
(917-924)
Bulgarian Empire Serbian Principality

The double-headed Byzantine Eagle. Byzantine Empire
Victory
  • Serbia is conquered by King Simeon and Bulgaria for the first time
Second Bulgarian-Croatian War
(926)
Bulgarian Empire Croatian Kingdom Defeat
Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria
(967-971)
Bulgarian Empire Kievan Rus'
The double-headed Byzantine Eagle. Byzantine Empire
Draw
  • Kievan Rus' conquered areas of northern Bulgaria
  • Byzantine victory over Kievan Rus', formal annexation of Bulgaria.[citation needed]
Fifth Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(968-1018)
Bulgarian Empire The double-headed Byzantine Eagle. Byzantine Empire Defeat
Third Bulgarian-Croatian War
(997-1000)
Bulgarian Empire Croatian Kingdom Defeat

Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Seventh Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(1185-1201)
Bulgarian Empire The double-headed Byzantine Eagle. Byzantine Empire Victory
Fourth Bulgarian-Serbian War
(1202-1203)
Bulgarian Empire Serbian Principality Victory
First Bulgarian–Latin War
(1204-1208)
Bulgarian Empire Latin Empire Victory
  • Weakening of the Latin Empire and enlargement of the Bulgarian Empire
Battle of Klokotnitsa
(1230)
Bulgarian Empire Empire of Thessalonica Victory
  • Empire of Thessalonica conquered by Bulgaria
  • Thessaly and Epirus became vassals of the Bulgarian empire
  • Bulgaria emerged as pre-eminent power in Southeastern Europe
Mongol invasion of Bulgaria and Serbia
(1241)
Bulgarian Empire Golden Horde Victory
  • Bulgarian army pushed back Batu Khan's forces
Bulgarian Civil War
(1277–1280)
Bulgarian Empire
Tsar Constantine
Allies:
The double-headed Byzantine Eagle. Byzantine Empire
Golden Horde
Bulgarian Empire
Tsar Ivaylo
Allies:
Bulgarian rebels
Royal victory
  • Peasant Ivaylo seized the throne, killing the Bulgarian tsar
  • Ivaylo was murdered, George Terter I became emperor of Bulgaria
Fifth Bulgarian-Serbian War
(1290-1291)
Bulgarian Empire Serbian Kingdom Defeat
  • Bulgaria lost the Belgrade and Branicevo provinces.
Fourth Bulgarian-Mongol War
(1299-1300)[citation needed]
Bulgarian Empire Golden Horde Victory
Ninth Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(1304-1305)[citation needed]
Bulgarian Empire The double-headed Byzantine Eagle. Byzantine Empire Victory
  • Bulgarian Empire conquered most of Thrace
Battle of Velbazhd
(1330)
Bulgarian Empire Serbian Kingdom Defeat
Byzantine Civil War
(1341–1347)
The double-headed Byzantine Eagle. Byzantine Empire
John V Palaiologos
Allies:
Bulgarian Empire
Serbian Empire
The double-headed Byzantine Eagle. Byzantine Empire
John VI Kantakouzenos
Allies:
Serbian Empire
Ottoman Empire
Victory
  • Kantakouzenos defeated regents, became emperor
  • Bulgarian Empire gained northern Thrace
First Bulgarian–Ottoman War
(1344-1371)
Bulgarian Empire Ottoman Empire Victory
  • Ottoman advance to Sofia halted in 1349 and 1355
  • Bulgarian phyrric victory over Ottomans at Çamurli field in 1371
  • Bulgaria held off the Ottoman army until the Bulgarian betrayal of brothers
Second Bulgarian–Ottoman War
(1371-1396)
Bulgarian Empire Ottoman Empire Defeat
  • Fall of the Bulgarian Empire

Principality of Bulgaria (1876–1908)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Russo-Turkish War
(1877–1878)
Russian Empire
Principality of Bulgaria
Principality of Serbia
Romanian United Principalities
Principality of Montenegro
 Ottoman Empire Victory
Bulgarian-Serbian War
(1885)
Principality of Bulgaria Kingdom of Serbia Victory
Macedonian Struggle
(1893–1908)
Principality of Bulgaria Kingdom of Greece
Kingdom of Serbia
 Kingdom of Romania
 Ottoman Empire
Draw
  • Four-way war between Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Romania and the Ottoman Empire
  • Inconclusive result after Young Turk Revolution
  • Bulgaria gained full independence in 1908

Kingdom of Bulgaria (1908–1946)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
First Balkan War
(1912–1913)
Balkan League
 Ottoman Empire
Allies:
Austria-Hungary
Albanian irregulars
Balkan League victory
  • Ottoman Empire lost most remaining holdings in Europe
  • Bulgaria obtained control over Macedonia, northern Greece, Albania and south Serbia
  • Treaty of London
Second Balkan War
(1913)
Kingdom of Bulgaria Kingdom of Greece
Kingdom of Serbia
Kingdom of Romania
Kingdom of Montenegro
 Ottoman Empire
Defeat
  • Dissatisfied with gains from the First Balkan War, Bulgaria attacked former allies Serbia and Greece
  • Attacks repulsed by Greece and Serbia, whose armies enter Bulgaria
  • Romanian and Ottoman intervention forced Bulgaria to ask for armistice
  • Bulgarian territorial cessations in Treaty of Bucharest and Treaty of Constantinople
World War I
(1914–1918)
(see Bulgaria during World War I)
Central Powers:
German Empire
 Ottoman Empire
Austria-Hungary
Kingdom of Bulgaria (from 1915)
Allied Powers:
 United States
 Britain
Kingdom of Italy
Russian Empire
French Third Republic
Occupied by Central Powers:
Kingdom of Greece
Kingdom of Serbia
Kingdom of Romania
Allied victory
Incident at Petrich (1925) Kingdom of Bulgaria Kingdom of Greece Bulgarian diplomatic victory
  • Due to a border incident, Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos sent troops into Bulgaria
  • League of Nations brokered ceasefire and Greek withdrawal
  • Greece fined for violating Bulgarian territory
  • Bulgaria paid damages for shooting Greek soldiers[1]
World War II
(1941–1945)
(see Bulgaria during World War II)
Allied Powers:
Soviet Union
 United States
 United Kingdom
Kingdom of Italy (1943–45)
French Third Republic (1939–40)
 Free France
Kingdom of Romania (1944–45)
Kingdom of Bulgaria (1944–45)
Kingdom of Greece (1940–45)
Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1941)
Axis Powers:
Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
Empire of Japan
Kingdom of Italy (1939–43)
Italy Italian Social Republic (1943–45)
 Vichy France
 Independent State of Croatia
Kingdom of Romania (1941–44)
Kingdom of Bulgaria (1941–44)
Allied victory
  • Bulgarian monarchy abolished and replaced with communist government
  • Southern Dobruja ceded to Bulgaria post-war

People's Republic of Bulgaria (1946–1990)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
(1968)
Warsaw Pact:
 Soviet Union
 Poland
 Bulgaria
 Hungary
Logistics support:
 East Germany[a]
 Czechoslovakia
Supported by:
 Albania

 Romania

Warsaw Pact victory

Republic of Bulgaria (1990–)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Iraq War
(2003-2011)
 Iraq
NATO
Baath Loyalists
Islamic State of Iraq
Al-Qaeda
Islamic Army of Iraq

Iraq Ba'athist Iraq

Coalition victory
2011 military intervention in Libya NATO Libya NATO victory
  • NTC assumed interim control of Libya.
  • Civil war in Libya

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Invasion canceled, troops prepared, part of the executive staff

References

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  1. ^ Thomopoulos, Elaine (2012). The History of Greece. ABC-CLIO. p. 110. ISBN 9780313375118.
  2. ^ "Sectarian divisions change Baghdad's image". NBC News. 3 July 2006. Retrieved 18 February 2007.
  3. ^ "U.S. says Iraq pullout won't cause dramatic violence". MSNBC. 18 November 2010. Archived from the original on 1 May 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
  4. ^ "UK 'to continue deporting failed Iraqi asylum seekers'". BBC. 22 November 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
  5. ^ "Bulgarian Frigate on Its Way to Libyan Coast". The Sofia Echo. 30 March 2011. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011.