List of military conflicts involving Serbia

List of military conflicts involving Serbia (Wars, battles, sieges, etc):

Middle Ages

Time	Ruler commander(s)	Part of	Opponent commander(s)	Main Article	Notes	Result
268	Claudius II Claudius II Claudius II , commonly known as Claudius Gothicus, was Roman Emperor from 268 to 270. During his reign he fought successfully against the Alamanni and scored a crushing victory against the Goths at the Battle of Naissus. He died after succumbing to a smallpox plague that ravaged the provinces of...	Roman-Gothic Wars	Goths Goths The Goths were an East Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin whose two branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Medieval Europe....	Battle of Naissus Battle of Naissus The Battle of Naissus was the defeat of a Gothic coalition by the Roman Empire under Emperor Gallienus near Naissus...		Roman victory
568	Justin II Justin II Justin II was Byzantine Emperor from 565 to 578. He was the husband of Sophia, nephew of Justinian I and the late Empress Theodora, and was therefore a member of the Justinian Dynasty. His reign is marked by war with Persia and the loss of the greater part of Italy... Bonus Bonus (Sirmium) Bonus was a Byzantine general, active in the reign of Justin II . He is known to have been situated at Sirmium, spending his career defending the Byzantine Empire against the Avars. He might have been a magister militum per Illyricum. The main source about him is Menander Protector.- Biography...	Byzantine-Avar Wars	Avars Eurasian Avars The Eurasian Avars or Ancient Avars were a highly organized nomadic confederacy of mixed origins. They were ruled by a khagan, who was surrounded by a tight-knit entourage of nomad warriors, an organization characteristic of Turko-Mongol groups... Bayan I	Siege of Sirmium		Byzantine victory
615	?	Slavic raids on Byzantine lands	?	Niš Niš Niš is the largest city of southern Serbia and third-largest city in Serbia . According to the data from 2011, the city of Niš has a population of 177,972 inhabitants, while the city municipality has a population of 257,867. The city covers an area of about 597 km2, including the urban area,...	During the 6th and 7th century CE, Slavic tribes made eight attempts to take Niš Niš Niš is the largest city of southern Serbia and third-largest city in Serbia . According to the data from 2011, the city of Niš has a population of 177,972 inhabitants, while the city municipality has a population of 257,867. The city covers an area of about 597 km2, including the urban area,... and in the final attack in 615 the Slavs took the city.	Slav victory
Serbian Principality
610-641	Unknown Archont Unknown Archont The Unknown Archont is a conventional name given by historians to the Serbian leader who led the White Serbs from their homeland to settle in the Balkans after 610, during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius ....		Balkan Avars Eurasian Avars The Eurasian Avars or Ancient Avars were a highly organized nomadic confederacy of mixed origins. They were ruled by a khagan, who was surrounded by a tight-knit entourage of nomad warriors, an organization characteristic of Turko-Mongol groups...			Byzantine Victory
692		Byzantine–Arab Wars	Umayyads	Battle of Sebastopolis	Serbian desertion	Byzantine loss
839-842	Vlastimir	Bulgarian–Serbian War	Presian I Presian I of Bulgaria Presian was the Khan of Bulgaria from 836–852. He ruled during an extensive expansion in Macedonia.-Origin:The composite picture of the Byzantine sources indicates that Presian I was the son of Zvinica , who was a son of Omurtag...			Victory
853/854	Mutimir Mutimir of Serbia Mutimir of Serbia was Prince of the Serbs from ca 850 until 891. He defeated the Bulgar Army, allied himself with the Byzantine Emperor and ruled the First Serbian Principality when the Christianization of the Serbs took place and the Eparchy of Ras was established.He was the eldest son of Knez...	Bulgarian–Serbian War	Boris I Boris I of Bulgaria Boris I, also known as Boris-Mihail and Bogoris was the Knyaz of First Bulgarian Empire in 852–889. At the time of his baptism in 864, Boris was named Michael after his godfather, Emperor Michael III...		Prince Mutimir Mutimir of Serbia Mutimir of Serbia was Prince of the Serbs from ca 850 until 891. He defeated the Bulgar Army, allied himself with the Byzantine Emperor and ruled the First Serbian Principality when the Christianization of the Serbs took place and the Eparchy of Ras was established.He was the eldest son of Knez... and his two brothers fights off an attack and captures the Khan's son, Vladimir Rasate Vladimir of Bulgaria Vladimir-Rasate was the ruler of Bulgaria from 889 to 893.He became ruler of Bulgaria when his father Boris-Mihail I decided to retire to a monastery after a reign of 36 years...	Victory

869-871		Saracens		Aid to Basil I Basil I Basil I, called the Macedonian was a Byzantine emperor of probable Armenian descent who reigned from 867 to 886. Born a simple peasant in the Byzantine theme of Macedonia, he rose in the imperial court, and usurped the imperial throne from Emperor Michael III... and Louis the Younger Louis the Younger Louis the Younger , sometimes Louis III, was the second eldest of the three sons of Louis the German and Emma. He succeeded his father as the King of Saxony on 28 August 876 and his elder brother Carloman as King of Bavaria from 880...	Byzantine Victory
891	Pribislav	Dynastic civil wars	Petar
894/895	Petar		Bran Bran Mutimirović Bran Mutimirović was a Serbian royalty, son of Serbian ruler Mutimir.He and Stefan escorted Khan Boris to the Rascian-Bulgar border after the Serbs successfully fought off the Khan's army in an attempted revenge to the defeat of Presian years earlier by their grandfather Vlastimir...
897			Klonimir Klonimir Klonimir Strojimirović or Klonimir of Serbia was a 9th-century Serbian royalty that briefly ruled Dostinika in 867, a city he had occupied of the Serbian ruler Petar.His father Strojimir was the youngest son of Vlastimir of Serbia...
917			Pavle
920	Pavle		Zaharija
923	Zaharija	Bulgarian–Serbian War	Simeon I Simeon I of Bulgaria Simeon I the Great ruled over Bulgaria from 893 to 927, during the First Bulgarian Empire. Simeon's successful campaigns against the Byzantines, Magyars and Serbs led Bulgaria to its greatest territorial expansion ever, making it the most powerful state in contemporary Eastern Europe...		Zaharija started to unite several Slavic tribes along the common border to rebel against Bulgaria. In 923, Symeon sent an insufficient number of troops to quell the rebels; several Bulgarian generals were killed, their heads and weapons were sent by Zaharija as gifts to the Byzantines.	Victory
924	Zaharija	Dynastic civil wars	Časlav
ca 950-960	Časlav Tihomir Tihomir of Rascia Tihomir of Rascia was a Serbian nobleman, mentioned only in the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja, who served as the Prince of Rascia from around 960 to 969.-Background:Tihomir's predecessor Časlav Tihomir of Rascia was a Serbian nobleman, mentioned only in the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja,...	Hungarian-Serbian Wars	Magyars Kisa	Battle of Drina Battle of Drina The Battle of Drina was fought between Serbian and Austro-Hungarian armies in World War I, in September 1914. The Austro-Hungarians engaged in a significant offensive over the Drina river at the western Serbian border, and battles commenced, the heaviest being Battle of Mačkov Kamen and Battle on...	The Magyars led by Kisa invades Bosnia, and Časlav hurries and encounters them at the banks of river Drina Drina The Drina is a 346 kilometer long river, which forms most of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It is the longest tributary of the Sava River and the longest karst river in the Dinaric Alps which belongs to the Danube river watershed... (specifically in the Drina župania, downstreams of present-day Foča Foca Foča is a town and municipality in southeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Drina river, in the Foča Region of the Republika Srpska entity.-Early history:... . The Magyars are decisively defeated, Kisa is killed by voivode Tihomir Tihomir of Rascia Tihomir of Rascia was a Serbian nobleman, mentioned only in the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja, who served as the Prince of Rascia from around 960 to 969.-Background:Tihomir's predecessor Časlav Tihomir of Rascia was a Serbian nobleman, mentioned only in the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja,... . Časlav marries his daughter to Tihomir, as a result of his courage and slaying of the Magyar leader. Kisa's widow requested from the Magyar leaders to give her an army for revenge. With an "unknown number" of troops, the widow returns and surprises Časlav at Syrmia Syrmia Syrmia is a fertile region of the Pannonian Plain in Europe, between the Danube and Sava rivers. It is divided between Serbia in the east and Croatia in the west.... . In the night, the Magyars attack the Serbs, capturing Časlav and all of his male relatives. On the command of the widow, all of them are bond by the hands and foots and thrown into the Sava river Sava River The Sava is a river in Southeast Europe, a right side tributary of the Danube river at Belgrade. Counting from Zelenci, the source of Sava Dolinka, it is long and drains of surface area. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia, along the northern border of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and through Serbia.... .	Victory
ca 950-960	Časlav	Hungarian-Serbian Wars	Magyars Kisa's widow	Battle of Sava		Defeat
Serbian Grand Principalities
1009/1010	Jovan Vladimir Jovan Vladimir Jovan Vladimir or John Vladimir was ruler of Duklja, the most powerful Serbian principality of the time, from around 1000 to 1016. He ruled during the protracted war between the Byzantine Empire and the First Bulgarian Empire...	Bulgarian–Serbian War	Samuel			Bulgarian victory
1034-1035/1036	Stefan Vojislav	Byzantine-Serbian Wars	Theophilos Erotikos Theophilos Erotikos Theophilos Erotikos was an 11th-century Byzantine general, and governor in Serbia and Cyprus, where he led a short-lived rebellion in 1042.-Serbian revolts:...			Byzantine victory
1037/1038-1040
1042
Kingdom of Serbia
1312	Stefan Milutin		Turcopoles Halil Pasha	Battle of Gallipoli Battle of Gallipoli (1312) The Battle of Gallipoli was fought in 1312, between the Byzantine Empire and Serbian Kingdom, against Turcopoles led by Halil Pasha.The Turks were looting and pillaging the countryside. For two years Thrace was in the hands of Halil Pasha, the local inhabitants did not cultivate their lands at the...
1326–1329			Bosnia Kingdom of Bosnia The Kingdom of Bosnia or the Bosnian Kingdom was one of the medieval kingdoms of the Balkans, existing between 1377 and 1463.- Establishment :... Ban Stephen II	Bosnian-Serbian War
1329–1330		Bulgarian-Serbian War	A
fall of the Serbian Empire Fall of the Serbian Empire Following the death of child-less Uroš the Weak, the Serbian Empire was left without an heir and the military commanders obtained the rule of the past provinces and districts , continuing their offices with titles such as gospodin and despot etc., given to them during the Empire...
1380/1381	Lazar Lazar of Serbia Lazar Hrebeljanović , was a medieval nobleman that emerged as the most powerful Serbian ruler after the death of the previous, childless, Emperor Uroš the Weak, which resulted in years of instability in the Serbian realm. As Stefan Lazar, he was Prince of Serbia from 1371 to 1389, ruling what is...	Ottoman-Serbian Wars		Battle of Dubravnica Battle of Dubravnica The Battle of Dubravnica was fought in the summer of 1380 or December 1381, on the Dubravnica River near Paraćin in today's central Serbia, between the Serbian forces of Prince Lazar of Serbia led by commanders Vitomir and Crep and the invading Ottoman Turks of Sultan Murad I...

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