List of wars involving Kyrgyzstan

This is a list of wars involving Kyrgyz Republic, by Kyrgyz and the predecessor states of Kyrgyzstan to the present day. It also includes wars fought outside Kyrgyzstan by the Kyrgyz military.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
War against Xiongnu (201 BC) Kyrgyz tribes Xiongnu Defeat
Battle of Tian Shan (99 BC) Xiongnu

Kyrgyz tribes (as part of Xioungnu)

Han dynasty Victory
Revolt against Xiongnu (71 BC) Xiongnu

Kyrgyz tribes

Rebels: Victory
  • Revolt is crushed
War against Xiongnu (49 BC)

(part of Xiongnu Civil War)

Kyrgyz tribes Xiongnu Defeat
War against Rouran Khaganate (5th century) Kyrgyz tribes

Tiele

Rouran Khaganate Defeat
Coalition War against the Second Turkic Khaganate (688) Coalition: Second Turkic Khaganate Defeat
  • Coalition is defeated
First War against the Second Turkic Khaganate (695) Kyrgyz Khaganate Second Turkic Khaganate Victory
Second War against the Second Turkic Khaganate (710-711) Kyrgyz Khaganate Second Turkic Khaganate Defeat
First Kyrgyz-Uyghur War (751-758) Kyrgyz Khaganate

Karluks

Uyghur Khaganate Defeat
Revolt against Uyghur Khaganate (795) Kyrgyz tribes Uyghur Khaganate Defeat
  • Revolt is crushed
Second Kyrgyz-Uyghur War (820-843) Kyrgyz Khaganate Uyghur Khaganate Victory
Expansion of Kyrgyz Khaganate (840-924)
Kyrgyz Khaganate
Kyrgyz Khaganate Turkic and Mongol tribes Victory
Series of revolts against the Mongol Empire (1218, 1261) Kyrgyz tribes Mongol Empire Defeat
  • Revolt of 1218 is crushed, thousands of Kyrgyz are massacred
  • Revolt of 1261 is crushed
Series of revolts against the Yuan dynasty (1273, 1293) Kyrgyz tribes Yuan dynasty Defeat
Conquering of Nicaea, now known as Iznik, (1331) Seljuk Empire

supported by: Kyrgyz tribes

Byzantine Empire Victory
  • In 1331, Sultan Orhan captured the city from the Byzantines and for a short period the town became the capital of the expanding Ottoman Emirate
Revolt against Moghulistan (1504-1508) Kyrgyz tribes Moghulistan Defeat
  • Revolt is crushed
Series of wars against Moghulistan (16th century) Kyrgyz tribes Moghulistan Victory
  • North Moghulistan is under control of Kyrgyz tribes
Series of wars against the Shaybanids (16th century) Kyrgyz tribes

supported by:

Kazakh Khanate

Shaybanids Victory
Kyrgyz-Oirat campaigns (16th century) Northern Kyrgyz tribes Four Oirat Victory
War against Khanate of Bukhara (1598) Kazakh Khanate

supported by:

Kyrgyz tribes

Khanate of Bukhara Victory
  • Kyrgyz tribes strengthen their influence in Central Asia
Campaign of the southern Kyrgyz tribes against Andijan (1642-1643) Southern Kyrgyz tribes Andijan Inconclusive
Dzhungar invasion (1643-1644) Kazakh Khanate

Kyrgyz tribes

Dzhungar Khanate Victory
  • Invasion is stopped by Kyrgyz and Kazakh tribes
First War against Dzhungar Khanate (1653) Kazakh Khanate

Kyrgyz tribes

Dzhungar Khanate Inconclusive
Second War against Dzhungar Khanate (1658) Khanate of Bukhara

Kyrgyz tribes

Kazakh Khanate

Dzhungar Khanate Inconclusive
Third War against Dzhungar Khanate (1678-1684) Khanate of Bukhara

Kyrgyz tribes

Kazakh Khanate (1683)

Dzhungar Khanate Victory
Fourth War against Dzhungar Khanate (1727) Kyrgyz tribes

Kazakh Khanate

Dzhungar Khanate Defeat
Kyrgyz campaign against Dzhungar Khanate (1747) Kyrgyz tribes Dzhungar Khanate Victory
Fifth War against Dzhungar Khanate (1748-1749) Kyrgyz tribes Dzhungar Khanate Victory
  • Decisive victory of Kyrgyz tribes
  • The end of Kyrgyz-Dzhungar wars
Battle against the Qing dynasty (1759) Kyrgyz tribes

supported by: Khanate of Kokand

Kazakh Khanate

 Qing dynasty Victory
  • Kyrgyz leader Azhy Byi, from Adygene tribe destroyed army of 9000 Chinese troops of Qing dynasty with his 6000 warriors
  • Kubat byi from Kushchu tribe destroyed last Dzhungar's army
Kyrgyz-Kazakh campaigns (1760-1779) Kyrgyz Khanate Kazakh Khanate Victory
Kyrgyz-Kokand War (1764-1831) Kyrgyz tribes Khanate of Kokand Defeat
Revolt of Jahangir Khoja (1820-1828) Uyghurs

supported by:

Kyrgyz tribes

Khanate of Kokand

 Qing dynasty Defeat
Kyrgyz-Kazakh War (1847) Kyrgyz Khanate
Supported by:
 Russian Empire
Kazakh Khanate Victory
Russian conquest of Kyrgyz tribes (1855-1876)
Surprise Attack, by Vasily Vereshchagin
Kyrgyz tribes  Russian Empire Defeat
Kokand campaign (1873-1876) Kyrgyz tribes
Khanate of Kokand
 Russian Empire Defeat
Andijan Uprising of 1898 Rebels:  Russian Empire Defeat
  • Uprising is crushed
Central Asian Revolt of 1916
Rebel escape to China, by Semyon Chuykov
Rebels:  Russian Empire Defeat
  • Nearly 50,000 Kyrgyz were massacred during the revolt
  • 150,000 - 200,000 Kyrgyz and Kazakhs fled to China
Basmachi Revolt (1916-1934)  Russian SFSR Basmachi Victory
World War II (1941-1945)
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag, by Yevgeny Khaldei
Allied Powers: Axis Powers: Victory
Hungarian Revolution of 1956  Soviet Union

Hungary

Revolutionaries Victory
  • Revolution is crushed
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989)  Soviet Union

 Republic of Afghanistan

Afghan Mujahideen Defeat
Osh Riots
(1990)
Kyrgyz Uzbeks
  • Riots have been stopped
Tajikistani Civil War
(19921997)
 Tajikistan
  • Popular Front[1]

 Russia
 Uzbekistan
 Kazakhstan
 Kyrgyz Republic
 Turkmenistan
 China
 India
UNMOT

United Tajik Opposition

Islamic State of Afghanistan
Taliban factions1[3]
Supported by:
al-Qaeda[4]

Military stalemate
Batken Conflict (July 30 – September 27, 1999)  Kyrgyz Republic

Supported by:

 Uzbekistan

 Russia

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Victory
  • Terrorists destroyed
  • Government of the Kyrgyz Republic regains control over previously occupied settlements
Tulip Revolution
(22 March11 April 2005)
Kyrgyz Opposition Government of Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010
(6 April14 December 2010)
Revolutionaries Government of Kyrgyzstan
2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes
(2010)
Kyrgyzistan Kyrgyz gangs

Other pro-Bakiyev forces

Uzbekistani Kyrgyz1

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (alleged)[11]


Kyrgyz provisional government
Supported by:
 Russia[12]
 Kazakhstan[13]
 United States[14]
 China[15]
 Turkey[16]

Kyrgyzstani Uzbeks

Uzbekistani Uzbek civilians1

 Uzbekistan[21] (limited involv.)2[23][24]

  • Uzbek minority expulsion, Bishkek government regains control over southern provinces

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