List of wars involving the Czech lands

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This is a list of wars involving the Czech Republic and its predecessor states.

Before 850

Year	War	Allies	Enemies	Conclusion
626	War against Avars	Samo's empire	Avar Khaganate	Victory
631	War between Samo's empire and Frank Empire	Samo's empire	Francia	Victory
79?-795	Francian Campaigns against Avars	Czechs Francia	Avar Khaganate	Victory
805	Great Turkestan War	Czechs	Francia	Victory
833	Conquest of Nitrian Principality	Principality of Moravia	Principality of Nitra	Victory
848-849	Louis the German's campaign against Bohemia	Bohemia	East Francia	Victory

850-1526

Year	War	Allies	Enemies	Conclusion
~800–970	Hungarian invasions of Europe	Duchy of Bohemia Great Moravia others	Hungarians	More than a century of raids and decisive wars
864-874	Great Moravia war against East Francia	Great Moravia Bohemia	East Francia	Victory
936-950	Bohemian-Saxon War	Duchy of Bohemia	Holy Roman Empire	Defeat
975-978	War against Otto II.	Duchy of Bohemia	Holy Roman Empire	Victory
988-990	Polish-Czech War	Duchy of Bohemia	Duchy of Poland Holy Roman Empire	Defeat
995	War against Slavník dynasty	Duchy of Bohemia	Zlicans	Victory
1002-1005	Polish-German War	Duchy of Bohemia Holy Roman Empire	Duchy of Poland	Victory
1015-1018	Polish-German War	Duchy of Bohemia Holy Roman Empire	Duchy of Poland	Defeat
1029-1031	Polish-German War	Duchy of Bohemia (since 1029) Holy Roman Empire Others	Kingdom of Poland Kingdom of Hungary	Victory
1030-1031	Intervention in Hungary	Holy Roman Empire Duchy of Bohemia	Kingdom of Hungary	Indecisive
1035	Campaign against Lutici	Duchy of Bohemia	Lusatia	Victory
1040-1041	War against Henry III.	Duchy of Bohemia	Holy Roman Empire	Defeat
1042-1044	Bretislaus I and Henry III. invasions of Hungary	Duchy of Bohemia Holy Roman Empire	Kingdom of Hungary	Victory
1051	Campaign in Hungary	Duchy of Bohemia Holy Roman Empire	Kingdom of Hungary	Victory
1063	Siege of Hradec nad Moravicí	Duchy of Bohemia	Kingdom of Poland	Victory
1077 - 1088	Great Saxon Revolt	Duchy of Bohemia Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor	Rudolf of Rheinfelden	Victory
1104–1105	Expeditions into Pomerania	Duchy of Bohemia	Kingdom of Poland	Victory
1126	War of succession to the Duchy of Bohemia	Holy Roman Empire	Duchy of Bohemia	Victory
1145 - 1149	Second Crusade	Duchy of Bohemia Crusaders	Saracens	Defeat
1158	Milan Campaign	Duchy of Bohemia Holy Roman Empire	Milan	Victory
1189-1192	Third Crusade	Duchy of Bohemia Crusaders	Muslims	Military victory
1241	Mongol invasion of Moravia	Kingdom of Bohemia	Mongol Empire	Mongols retreated
1254-1255	Prussian Crusade	Kingdom of Bohemia Teutonic Knights	Grand Duchy of Lithuania	Victory
1257	Bohemia-Bavarian War	Kingdom of Bohemia	Bavaria	Defeat
1260	War of Styria	Kingdom of Bohemia Duchy of Austria	Kingdom of Hungary	Victory
1267-1268	Prussian Crusade	Kingdom of Bohemia Teutonic Knights	Grand Duchy of Lithuania	Retreat
1270-1271	Hungarian Campaign	Kingdom of Bohemia	Kingdom of Hungary	Victory
1273	Bohemian-Hungarian War	Kingdom of Bohemia	Kingdom of Hungary	Victory
1278	War against Rudolf von Habsburg	Kingdom of Bohemia	Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of Hungary	Defeat
1298	Fight for the rule over the Holy Roman Empire	Kingdom of Bohemia Duchy of Austria	County of Nassau Electoral Palatinate	Victory
1304	Anti-Bohemian Coalition	Kingdom of Bohemia	Holy Roman Empire Charles I of Hungary	Victory
1315	War against Matthew III Csák	Kingdom of Bohemia	Máté Csák's domain	Victory
1314-1322	Double reign of Holy Roman Empire	Kingdom of Bohemia Louis IV.	Frederick the Fair	Victory
1326-1332	Polish–Teutonic War	Kingdom of Bohemia Teutonic Order Others	Kingdom of Poland Grand Duchy of Lithuania Kingdom of Hungary	Defeat
1331-1332	War against Louis IV.	Kingdom of Bohemia	Holy Roman Empire	Defeat
1345-1348	Polish-Czech War	Kingdom of Bohemia	Kingdom of Poland (Piast)	Defeat
1346	Hundred Years' War	Kingdom of Bohemia France	England	Defeat
1419-1434	Hussite Wars	Radical Hussites	Papal States Holy Roman Empire Utraquist hussites	Defeat of radicals
1437–143?	Polish–Bohemian war	Kingdom of Bohemia	Kingdom of Poland Hussites	Victory
1443-1444	Crusade of Varna	Kingdom of Bohemia Kingdom of Poland Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Defeat
1468-1478	Bohemian War	Kingdom of Bohemia	Kingdom of Hungary	Treaty of Brno

1526-1918

Year	War	Allies	Enemies	Conclusion
1530-1552	Little War in Hungary	Kingdom of Bohemia Holy Roman Empire	Ottoman Empire	Indecisive
1546-1547	Schmalkaldic War	Kingdom of Bohemia Holy Roman Empire Spain	Schmalkaldic League	Victory
1611	Invasion of Passau Army	Kingdom of Bohemia	Roman Catholic Diocese of Passau	Victory
1618-1620	Bohemian Revolt	Bohemia	Holy Roman Empire	Defeat
1620-1648	Thirty Years' War	Bohemia Holy Roman Empire Spanish Empire	Protestant states	Peace of Westphalia
1680	Peasant Uprising	Czech Peasants	Austrian Empire	Defeat
1775	Peasant Uprising	Czech Peasants	Austrian Empire	Defeat
1848	Czech Revolution	Czechs	Austrian Empire	Defeat
1914 - 1918	World War I	Czechoslovak Legions Triple Entente	Central Powers	Victory
1917- 1922	Russian Civil War	Czechoslovak Legions White Movement	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic	Legions did get in Vladivostok, White army defeated

Since 1918

Year	War	Allies	Enemies	Losses	Conclusion
1919	Polish–Czechoslovak War	Czechoslovakia	Poland	44-53 killed	Indecisive
1918-1920	Revolutions and interventions in Hungary	Czechoslovakia Romania	Hungary	2824 killed or missing	Victory
1932-1935	Chaco War	Bolivia Czechoslovakia	Paraguay		Defeat
1938	Sudeten German uprising	Czechoslovakia	German Insurgents	100 killed	Partial defeat
1938	Capture of Zaolzie	Czechoslovakia	Second Polish Republic	2 killed	Defeat
1939	Axis invasion of Czechoslovakia	Czechoslovakia	Nazi Germany	1 killed	Defeat
1939	Hungarian Invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine	Czechoslovakia	Kingdom of Hungary Ukrainian nationalists	40 killed	Defeat
1939-1945	World War II	Czechoslovak government-in-exile Allies	Axis powers	325,000 killed	Victory
1945	Racibórz Conflict	Czechoslovakia	Poland	None	Agreement
1945-1947	Operation B	Czechoslovakia Poland Soviet Union	Ukrainian Insurgent Army	49 killed	Victory
1948-1949	Israeli War of Independence	Israel supported by Czechoslovakia	Arab states	None	Victory
1950-1953	Korean War	Communist states including Czechoslovakia	South Korea United Nations	None	Military stalemate; Ceasefire reached through Korean Armistice Agreement
1953	Merklín incident	Czechoslovakia	United States	None	Victory
1953	Uprising in Plzeň	Czechoslovakia	Plzeň workers	None	Uprising crushed
1955-1975	Vietnam War	Communist states including Czechoslovakia	South Vietnam United States	None	Victory
1968	Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia	Czechoslovakia	Warsaw Pact	137 killed	Defeat
1970s-1980s	Angolan Civil War	MPLA supported by: Czechoslovakia and others	UNITA	1 killed	Victory
1990-1991	Gulf War	Czechoslovakia United States and other	Iraq	1 killed	Victory
1999	Kosovo War	NATO including the Czech Republic	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	None	Victory
2002-2021	War in Afghanistan	Czech Republic United States United Kingdom and others	Insurgents	14 killed	Defeat
2003-2009	Iraq War	Czech Republic United States United Kingdom and others	Insurgents	1 killed	Victory
2004	Unrest in Kosovo	Czech Republic Kosovo Force	Kosovo Albanians	None	Unrest suppressed Peace reached through mutual agreement
2011	First Libyan Civil War	Anti-Gaddafi movement NATO supported by the Czech Republic	Libya	None	Victory
2012-present	Mali War	Czech Republic Mali France ECOWAS	National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad Islamists	None	Ongoing

References

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Czech: cs:Mongolský vpád na Moravu roku 1241
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"Korejská záhada zůstává nevyřešena" (in Czech). Retrieved 7 September 2012.
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"Češi v Kosovu: Hlídkovali i kuchaři" [Czechs in Kosovo: Cooks also patrolled]. iDNES.cz (in Czech). 26 March 2004.
"Češi zachránili 140 Srbů" [Czechs saved 140 Serbs]. iDNES.cz (in Czech). 20 March 2004.
"V letounech AWACS budou Kaddáfího kontrolovat i Češi" [Gaddafi will also be controlled by the Czechs in AWACS planes]. Novinky.cz (in Czech). 18 May 2011.

v t e Czech wars and conflicts
Slavic tribes and Great Moravia	War against Avars War between Samo's empire and Frank Empire War against Charles the Great Conquest of Nitrian Principality
Duchy of Bohemia	Louis the German's campaign against Bohemia Hungarian invasions of Europe Great Moravia war against East Francia Saxon revolt of 1077–1088 War of succession to the Duchy of Bohemia Second Crusade Third Crusade Mongol invasion of Moravia Prussian Crusade Bohemia-Bavarian War War of Styria Prussian Crusade
Kingdom of Bohemia	Hungarian Campaign Bohemian-Hungarian War War against Rudolf von Habsburg Wenceslaus II.'s Polish Campaign Fight for the rule over the Holy Roman Empire Anti-Bohemian Coalition War against Matthew III Csák Double reign of Holy Roman Empire War against Louis IV. Polish-Czech War Hundred Years' War Hussite Wars Polish–Bohemian war Crusade of Varna Bohemian–Hungarian War
1526–1648	Little War in Hungary Schmalkaldic War Invasion of Passau Army Bohemian Revolt Thirty Years' War
1648–1867	1680 Czech peasant Uprising 1775 Czech peasant Uprising Czech Revolution
1867–1918	World War I Czechoslovak Legion
Czechoslovakia	Russian Civil War Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion Polish–Czechoslovak War Železná Ruda uprising Revolutions and interventions in Hungary Hungarian–Czechoslovak War Sudeten German uprising Capture of Zaolzie Axis invasion of Czechoslovakia Hungarian Invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine World War II Resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Czech and Slovak Legion 1st Czechoslovak Division in France Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons Czechoslovak 11th Infantry Battalion 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the Soviet Union 1st Czechoslovak Mixed Air Division 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade Racibórz Conflict Operation B Israeli War of Independence Arms shipments from Czechoslovakia to Israel Korean War Czechoslovak military mission in Korea Merklín incident Uprising in Plzeň Vietnam War Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia Angolan Civil War Abduction of Czechoslovak citizens in Angola Gulf War Czechoslovakia in the Gulf War
Czech Republic	Yugoslav Wars United Nations Protection Force Kosovo War Unrest in Kosovo War in Afghanistan Czech Afghanistan Contingent Provincial Reconstruction Team Logar Iraq War Multi-National Force – Iraq First Libyan Civil War Operation Unified Protector Mali War European Union Training Mission in Mali Russian invasion of Ukraine military aid to Ukraine International Legion of Territorial Defense

v t e Lists of wars involving European countries
Sovereign states	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom
States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Kosovo Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria
Dependencies and other entities	Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Svalbard

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