List of wars involving Bulgaria

This article lists the wars, campaigns and battles fought by Bulgaria since its creation in 681.

Results of All Wars Involving Bulgaria

First Bulgarian Empire (681-1018)

First Bulgarian Empire
First Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(680-792)
Bulgarian Empire Byzantine Empire
Victory
Siege of Constantinople (717–718) Bulgarian Empire Umayyad Caliphate Victory
First Bulgarian-Serbian War
(839-842)
Bulgarian Empire Serbian Principality Draw
  • Serbia is Recognized by The Bulgarian Empire
Second Bulgarian-Serbian War
853
Bulgarian Empire Serbian Principality Draw
  • Bulgaria and Serbia Form a Slavic Alliance
Bulgarian-Bosnian War
(854)
Bulgarian Empire Bosnian Banate Victory
  • Bulgaria Takes Down and Conquers the Entire Banate of Bosnia

1118

First Bulgarian-Croatian War
(854)
Bulgarian Empire Croatian Kingdom Draw
Third Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(894-896)
Bulgarian Empire Byzantine Empire
Victory
Fourth Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(913-927)
Bulgarian Empire Byzantine Empire

Serbian Principality
Victory
  • Serbia is Conquered For the First Time by King Simeon
  • The Bulgarian Empire Nearly Conquers Constantinople
Third Bulgarian-Serbian War
(917-924)
Bulgarian Empire Serbian Principality

Byzantine Empire
Victory
  • Serbia is Conquered by King Simeon and Bulgaria for the Second Time
Second Bulgarian-Croatian War
(926)
Bulgarian Empire Croatian Kingdom Defeat
Bulgarian-Kievan Rus War
(967-971)
Bulgarian Empire Kievan Rus Empire
Byzantine Empire
Draw
  • Kievan Rus Conquers Areas of Northern Bulgaria
  • Byzantine victory over the Rus', formal annexation of Bulgaria.
Fifth Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(968-1018)
Bulgarian Empire Byzantine Empire Defeat
Third Bulgarian-Croatian War
(997-1000)
Bulgarian Empire Croatian Kingdom Victory
  • Croatian Civil War is Ended, Bulgarian Empire Conquers Southern Croatia

Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Second Bulgarian Empire
Seventh Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(1185-1201)
Bulgarian Empire Byzantine Empire Victory
  • Reestablishment of the Bulgarian Empire
  • Bulgarian Empire Resurfaces as Strongest Power In Eastern Europe
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 Thessalonican Empire Victory
  • Empire of Thessalonico is Conquered by Bulgaria
Second Bulgarian-Mongol War
(1222-1223)
Bulgarian Empire Golden Horde Empire Victory
Bulgarian Civil War
(1277–1280)
Bulgarian Empire
Tsar Constantine
Allies:
Byzantine Empire
Golden Horde
Bulgarian Empire
Tsar Ivaylo
Allies:
Bulgarian Rebels
Serbian Rebels
Inconclusive
  • Peasant Ivaylo Snatches the Throne and Kills 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 loses the Belgrade and Branicevo provinces.
Fourth Bulgarian-Mongol War
(1299-1300)
Bulgarian Empire Golden Horde Empire Draw
  • Northern Bulgaria Once Again Becomes a Vassal to Golden Horde
  • King Theodore Svetoslav Banishes the Mongols to the East
Ninth Bulgarian-Byzantine War
(1304-1305)
Bulgarian Empire Byzantine Empire Victory
  • Bulgarian Empire Conquers Most of Thrace
Sixth Bulgarian-Serbian War
(1330-1331)
Bulgarian Empire Serbian Kingdom Draw
  • Both Kingdom's Form a Slavic Alliance
Fifth Bulgarian-Mongol War
(1332-1341)
Bulgarian Empire Golden Horde Empire Victory
  • The Mongols are Banished Northeast Forever
  • The Bulgarian Empire Begins Conquer Mongol Lands to North
Byzantine Civil War
(1341–1347)
Byzantine Empire
King Palaiologos
Allies:
Bulgarian Empire
Serbian Empire
Byzantine Empire
King Kantakouzenos
Allies:
Bulgarian Empire
Ottoman Empire
Victory
First Bulgarian–Ottoman War
(1344-1362)
Bulgarian Empire Ottoman Empire Victory
  • Bulgaria holds 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)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Bulgarian Principality
Russian-Turkish War
(1877-1878)
Bulgarian Principality
Allies:
Russian Empire
Serbian Principality
Romanian Principality
Montenegrin Principality
 Ottoman Empire Victory
Bulgarian-Serbian War
(1885)
Bulgarian Principality Serbian Kingdom Victory
  • Serbia Hits Main Ally, Bulgaria, From Behind, Trusts Between the Two Slavic Nations Crumble
  • Prince Alexander of Battenburg Leads Bulgaria to a Crushing Victory
Macedonian Struggle War
(1893-1908)
Bulgarian Principality Greek Kingdom
Serbian Kingdom
Romanian Kingdom
 Ottoman Empire
Draw
  • Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Romania and the Ottoman Empire Fight a Four Way War
  • War Ends Inconclusively After Young Turk Revolution
  • Bulgaria Gains Full Independence in 1908

Kingdom of Bulgaria (1908-1946)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Bulgarian Kingdom
First Balkan War
(1912-1913)
Balkan League
Bulgarian Kingdom
Allies:
Greek Kingdom
Serbian Kingdom
Montenegrin Kingdom
 Ottoman Empire
Allies:
Austria Hungarian Empire
Albanian Legion
Balkan League Victory
  • The Ottoman Empire is nearly pushed out of Europe
  • Bulgaria free Macedonia, Northern Greece, Albania and South Serbia
  • Treaty of London
Second Balkan War
(1913)
Bulgarian Kingdom Greek Kingdom
Serbian Kingdom
Romanian Kingdom
Montenegrin Kingdom
 Ottoman Empire
Defeat
  • Dissatisfied with gains from the First Balkan War, Bulgaria attacks former allies Serbia and Greece
  • Attacks repulsed by Greece and Serbia, whose armies enter Bulgaria
  • Romanian intervention forces Bulgaria to ask for armistice
  • Bulgarian territorial cessations in Treaty of Bucharest and Treaty of Constantinople
Bulgaria In World War I
World War I (see Bulgaria during World War I)
(1914–1918)
Bulgarian Kingdom
Central Powers:
German Empire
 Ottoman Empire
Austria Hungarian Empire
Allied Powers:
 United States
 British Empire
Italian Kingdom
Russian Empire
French Republic
Occupied by Central Powers:
Greek Kingdom
Serbian Kingdom
Romanian Kingdom
Allied Victory
Post World War I Conflicts
Incident at Petrich (1925) Bulgarian Kingdom Greek Kingdom Victory
  • Due to a border incident, Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos sends troops into Bulgaria
  • League of Nations brokers a ceasefire and a Greek withdrawal
  • Greece fined for violating Bulgarian territory
  • Bulgaria pays damages for shooting Greek soldiers[1]
Bulgaria In World War II
World War II (see Military history of Bulgaria during World War II)
(1941–1945)
Bulgarian Kingdom
Allied Powers:
Soviet Union
 United States
Greek Kingdom
 United Kingdom
French Republic
Yugoslavian Kingdom
Bulgarian Kingdom
Axis Powers:
Nazi Germany
Italian Kingdom
Japanese Empire
Romanian Kingdom
Allied Victory
  • Bulgarian monarchy abolished and replaced with Communist government
  • Southern Dobruja awarded to Bulgaria postwar

People's Republic of Bulgaria (1946-1990)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
People's Republic of Bulgaria
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
(1968)
Bulgaria
Allies:
Soviet Union
Hungary
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Allies:
Albania
Romania
Yugoslavia
Warsaw Pact Victory
  • Along with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact allies, Bulgarian troops invade Czechoslovakia
  • Minimal Czechoslovak armed resistance
  • Czech reformist leaders forced to sign Moscow Protocol, ending the Prague Spring

Republic of Bulgaria (1990- )

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Republic of Bulgaria
Iraq War
(2003-2011)
 Bulgaria
Allies:
 Iraq
NATO
 United States
Baath Loyalists
Islamic State of Iraq
Al-Qaeda
Islamic Army of Iraq

Ba'athist Iraq

Coalition Victory
2011 military intervention in Libya NATO

 United States

 Bulgaria (one frigate as part of NATO contribution)[5]

Libya NATO Victory
  • The NTC assumed interim control of Libya.
  • Civil war in Libya
War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
(2001-)
 Bulgaria
Allies:
NATO
 Russia
 Afghanistan
 United States
Taliban
ISIS
Al-Qaeda
Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin
Ongoing
  • Airstrikes on ISIS and Al-Qaeda affiliates positions in Afghanistan
  • Terrorism in Europe (2014–present)

See also

References

  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 May 1, 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.
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