List of wars involving Bulgaria

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

  Bulgarian Victory (and allies)
  Bulgarian Defeat (and allies)
  Inconclusive

*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)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
First Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(680–689)
Bulgarian Empire Byzantine Empire
Victory
Battle of Anchialus (708)
(708)
Bulgarian Empire Byzantine Empire
Victory
Siege of Constantinople (717–718)
Bulgarian Empire Umayyad Caliphate Victory
Bulgarian Invasion of Avaria
(804)
Bulgarian Empire Avar Khaganate Victory
  • Khan Krum fully subjugated the remainder of the Avar Empire[2]
Second Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(809–822)
Bulgarian Empire Byzantine Empire
Victory
Bulgarian-Frankish War
(827–829)
Bulgarian Empire Frankish Empire Victory
  • King Omurtag defeated the Frankish fleet at the Drava river
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 Inconclusive
  • Peace treaty concluded with King Boris I
First Bulgarian-Hungarian War
(862–896)
Bulgarian Empire Hungarian Empire Victory
  • The Bulgarian army under Boris I obliterated the Magyar army, forcing them north[3]
Third Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(894–896)
Bulgarian Empire Byzantine Empire
Victory
Invasion of the Principality of Serbia by the pretender to the Serbian throne Klonimir backed by the Bulgarian Empire

(897–898)

Bulgarian Empire

Klonimir

Serbian Principality
Defeat
Fourth Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(913–927)
Bulgarian Empire Byzantine Empire
Victory
Third Bulgarian-Serbian War
(917–924)
Bulgarian Empire Serbian Principality

Byzantine Empire
Victory
  • Emperor Simeon I and Bulgaria conquer Serbia
Second Bulgarian-Croatian War
(926)
Bulgarian Empire Croatian Kingdom Defeat
Second Bulgarian-Hungarian War
(932–980)
Bulgarian Empire Hungarian Empire Inconclusive
Liberation of the Principality of Serbia from the Bulgar rule

(933–934)[7]

Bulgarian Empire Serbian Principality
Defeat
Bulgarian-Kievan Rus War
(967–997)
Bulgarian Empire Kievan Rus Empire
Byzantine Empire
Inconclusive
  • Kievan Rus occupied areas of Northern Bulgaria
  • The Rus were defeated in a three-way war with Byzantium
Fifth Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(968–1018)
Bulgarian Empire Byzantine Empire Defeat
Bulgarian invasion of Duklja
(997)
Bulgarian Empire Serbian Duklja Victory
Third Bulgarian-Croatian War
(997–1000)
Bulgarian Empire Croatian Kingdom Defeat

Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Seventh Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(1185–1201)
Bulgarian Empire 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
Battle of Klokotnitsa
(1230)
Bulgarian Empire Empire of Thessalonica Victory
Mongol invasion of Bulgaria and Serbia
(1241)
Bulgarian Empire Golden Horde Victory
  • The Bulgarian army pushed back Batu Khan's forces
Bulgarian Civil War
(1277–1280)
Bulgarian Empire
Tsar Constantine
Allies:
Byzantine Empire
Golden Horde
Bulgarian Empire
Tsar Ivaylo
Allies:
Bulgarian rebels
Royal victory
Fifth Bulgarian-Serbian War
(1290–1291)
Bulgarian Empire Serbian Kingdom Defeat
  • Bulgaria lost the Belgrade and Branicevo provinces.
Fourth Bulgarian-Mongol War
(1299–1300)
Bulgarian Empire Golden Horde Victory
Ninth Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(1304–1305)
Bulgarian Empire Byzantine Empire Victory
  • The Bulgarian Empire conquered most of Thrace
Battle of Velbazhd
(1330)
Bulgarian Empire Serbian Kingdom Defeat
Byzantine Civil War
(1341–1347)
Byzantine Empire
John V Palaiologos
Allies:
Bulgarian Empire
Serbian Empire
Byzantine Empire
John VI Kantakouzenos
Allies:
Serbian Empire
Ottoman Empire
Victory
First Bulgarian–Ottoman War
(1344–1371)
Bulgarian Empire Ottoman Empire Defeat
  • Bulgaria held off the Ottoman army until the Bulgarian betrayal of brothers
Second Bulgarian–Ottoman War
(1371–1396)
Bulgarian Empire Ottoman Empire Defeat

Principality of Bulgaria (1878–1908)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
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

Kingdom of Bulgaria (1908–1946)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
First Balkan War
(1912–1913)
Balkan League Ottoman Empire
Allies:
Austria-Hungary
Albanian irregulars
Balkan League victory
Second Balkan War
(1913)
Kingdom of Bulgaria Kingdom of Greece
Kingdom of Serbia
Kingdom of Romania
Kingdom of Montenegro
Ottoman Empire
Defeat
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
  • League of Nations brokered a ceasefire and Greek withdrawal
  • Greece fined for violating Bulgarian territory
  • Bulgaria paid damages for shooting Greek soldiers[12]
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
Empire of Japan
Kingdom of Italy (1939–43)
Italian Social Republic (1943–45)
Vichy France
Independent State of Croatia
Kingdom of Romania (1941–44)
Kingdom of Bulgaria (1941–44)
Allied victory
  • The Bulgarian monarchy was abolished and replaced with a communist government
  • Southern Dobruja ceded to Bulgaria

People's Republic of Bulgaria (1946–1990)

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–)

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

Ba'athist Iraq

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

See also

Notes

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

References

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