List of wars involving the Ottoman Empire

This is a list of conflicts involving the Ottoman Empire ordered chronologically, including civil Wars within the Empire.

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Conscription

Rise (1299–1453)

• 1299–1453 Byzantine–Ottoman Wars
• 1340–1396 Bulgarian–Ottoman wars
• 1341–1347 Byzantine civil war of 1341–47
• 1366–1526 Ottoman–Hungarian Wars
• 1371–1459 Serbian–Ottoman Wars
• 1373–1379 Byzantine civil war of 1373–79
• 1389 Battle of Kosovo
• 1395 Battle of Nicopolis
• 1402 Battle of Ankara
• 1402–1413 Ottoman Interregnum
• 1404 Uprising of Konstantin and Fruzhin
• 1416–1420 Revolt of Sheikh Bedreddin
• 1432–1478 Ottoman–Albanian Wars
• 1443–1444 Crusade of Varna
• 1447–1448 Albanian–Venetian War
• 1448 Battle of Kosovo (1448)

Growth (1453–1606)

• 1463–1479 Ottoman–Venetian War
• 1473 Battle of Otlukbeli
• 1473-1479 Moldavian–Ottoman Wars
• 1480-1481 Ottoman invasion of Otranto
• 1484-1486 Moldavian–Ottoman Wars
• 1485–1503 Polish–Ottoman War (1485–1503)
• 1485–1491 Ottoman–Mamluk War
• 1493–1593 Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War
• 1499–1503 Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)
• 1509–1513 Ottoman Civil War
• 1511 Şahkulu Rebellion
• 1514 Battle of Chaldiran
• 1516–1517 Ottoman–Mamluk War
• 1519–1659 Jelali revolts
• 1521–1718 Ottoman–Habsburg wars
• 1530–1552 Little War in Hungary
• 1532–1555 Ottoman–Safavid War
• 1537–1540 Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–40)
• 1538–1557 Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts
• 1543 Italian War of 1551–59
• 1558 Expedition to Mostaganem
• 1558–1563 Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1558–66)
• 1559 Ottoman Civil War
• 1565 Great Siege of Malta
• 1568–1570 Russo-Turkish War
• 1570–1573 Ottoman–Venetian War
• 1578 Caucasian campaign
• 1578–1590 Ottoman–Safavid War
• 1580–1589 Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts
• 1585 Ottoman–Druze War
• 1589 Beylerbeyi Event
• 1593–1606 Long War
• 1593–1617 Moldavian Magnate Wars
• 1598 First Tarnovo Uprising
• 1603–1618 Ottoman–Safavid War

Stagnation (1606–1699)

• 1611–1613 Ottoman–Druze War
• 1620–1621 Polish–Ottoman War
• 1622–1628 Abaza rebellion
• 1623–1639 Ottoman–Safavid War
• 1631–1635 Ottoman–Druze War
• 1645–1669 Cretan War
• 1648 Atmeydanı Incident
• 1656 Çınar Incident
• 1658–1667 Druze power struggle
• 1663–1664 Austro–Turkish War
• 1672–1676 Polish–Ottoman War (1672–76)
• 1676–1681 Russo-Turkish War (1676–81)
• 1683–1699 Great Turkish War
• 1686 Second Tarnovo Uprising
• 1688 Chiprovtsi Uprising
• 1689 Karposh's Rebellion

Decline (1699–1792)

• 1700–1721 Great Northern War
• 1703 Edirne event
• 1711 Russo-Turkish War (1710–11)
• 1714–1718 Ottoman–Venetian War
• 1716–1718 Austro–Turkish War
• 1730 Patrona Halil
• 1730–1735 Ottoman–Persian War
• 1735–1739 Russo-Turkish War
• 1737–1739 Austro-Turkish War
• 1743–1746 Ottoman–Persian War
• 1768–1774 Russo-Turkish War
• 1770 Orlov Revolt
• 1773-1775 Pugachev's Rebellion
• 1775–1776 Ottoman–Persian War
• 1787–1791 Austro-Turkish War
• 1787–1792 Russo-Turkish War

Dissolution (1792–1922)

• 1793–1795 Tripolitanian civil war
• 1798–1801 French campaign in Egypt and Syria
• 1801–1805 First Barbary War
• 1803 Souliote War
• 1803–1807 Muhammad Ali's seizure of power
• 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising
• 1806–1812 Russo-Turkish War
• 1807 Rebellion of Kabakçı Mustafa
• 1807–1809 Anglo-Turkish War
• 1811–1818 Ottoman–Saudi War
• 1815 Second Barbary War
• 1815–1817 Second Serbian Uprising
• 1816 Bombardment of Algiers
• 1821–1832 Greek War of Independence
• 1821 Wallachian uprising of 1821
• 1821–1823 Ottoman–Persian War
• 1828–1829 Russo-Turkish War
• 1829–1830 Revolt of Atçalı Kel Mehmet
• 1830 French invasion of Algiers
• 1831–1832 Great Bosnian uprising
• 1831–1833 Egyptian–Ottoman War
• 1833–1839 Albanian Revolts of 1833–39
• 1834 1834 Arab revolt in Palestine
• 1835–1858 Libyan revolt
• 1838 1838 Druze revolt
• 1839–1841 Egyptian–Ottoman War
• 1843–1844 Albanian Revolt of 1843–44
• 1847 Albanian Revolt of 1847
• 1848 Wallachian Revolution of 1848
• 1853–1856 Crimean War
• 1854 Epirus Revolt of 1854
• 1858 Battle of Grahovac
• 1860 Lebanon conflict
• 1861–1862 Montenegrin–Ottoman War
• 1866–1869 Cretan Revolt
• 1876 Razlovtsi insurrection
• 1876–1878 Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1876–78)
• 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War
• 1878 Epirus Revolt of 1878
• 1878 Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1894 Sasun rebellion
• 1895–1896 Zeitun Rebellion
• 1897 Greco–Turkish War
• 1903 Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising
• 1904 Sasun Uprising
• 1904–1908 Macedonian Struggle
• 1909–1910 Hauran Druze Rebellion
• 1910 Albanian Revolt of 1910
• 1911–1912 Italo-Turkish War
• 1912–1913 First Balkan War
• 1913 Second Balkan War
• 1914–1918 World War I, as part of the Central Powers
• 1918–1920 Armenian–Azerbaijani War
• 1918–1920 Revolt of Ahmet Anzavur
• 1919 Russian Civil War
• 1920 Kuva-yi Inzibatiye
• 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish War
• 1919–1923 Turkish War of Independence

References

1. Odan, Serada. "Thread: List of Wars Involving the Ottoman Empire." Ummahcom Muslim Forum RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2015.
2. "List of Wars Involving the Ottoman Empire." List of Wars Involving the Ottoman Empire. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2015.

See also

• List of wars involving Turkey