List of wars involving Bulgaria

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

7th century

Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars (741-775).

Campaigns of Khan Krum (803-814).

680: Battle of Ongal, decisive victory of Khan Asparukh against the Byzantines. Official recognition of Bulgaria.
689: Successful campaign against the Byzantine Empire.

700: Khan Asparuhk perishes in battle against the Khazars.
705: Khan Tervel sends 15,000 men to help Justinian II regain his crown.
708: War with Byzantium, victory at Anchialus.
717–718: Second Arab Siege of Constantinople. The Bulgarians slaughter between 22,000 and 30,000 Arabs in the decisive battle.
756–775: Campaigns of Constantine V against Bulgaria. Despite several Byzantine victories they fail to subjugate Bulgaria.
791-792: Byzantine invasions fail after the battle of Provat and Marcelae.

804-806: Bulgaria under Khan Krum destroys the Avar Khaganate.
807: Raid on the Struma valley against the Byzantines.
809: The Bulgarians capture Sofia.
811: Campaign of Nicephorus I against Bulgaria ends in disaster in the battle of Pliska, the emperor is killed.
811-813: Campaigns of Krum of Bulgaria in Eastern Thrace; major Bulgarian victory at Versinikia; the Bulgarians besiege Constantinople and temporarily seize Adrianople.
814: The Byzantines repulse a Bulgarian invasion.
824 Successful campaign against the Khazars.
826-828: War against the Franks, Bulgarian success.
836: War against Byzantium, the Bulgarians gain Philippopolis (Plovdiv).
837: The Bulgarians conquer Philippi.
839-842: War against the Serbs.
853: Defeat against East Francia.
894–896: War against the Byzantines and the Magyars. Decisive victories over the Byzantines in the battle of Bulgarophygon and over the Magyars st Southern Buh.

913-927: War against Byzantium. Major success in the Battle of Achelous. Recognition of the Imperial title of the Bulgarian rulers and the Bulgarian Patriarchate.
917-924: Wars against the Serbs, the Serbian state is destroyed.
927: The Croats defeat a Bulgarian army.
931: Serbian rebellion, the Serb state is restored.
934-965: Magyar raids in Bulgaria.
968-971: Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria, war against Kievan Rus' and the Byzantines.
976-1018: War against the Byzantine Empire.
986: Battle of the Gates of Trajan major victory of Samuel of Bulgaria over Basil II.
998: The Bulgarians destroy the Serbian state.

1003: War against Hungary
1014: Battle of Kleidion decisive Byzantine victory over the Bulgarians under Samuel.
1018: The Byzantines conquer Bulgaria, end of the First Empire.

1185: Uprising of Asen and Peter. Reestablishment of the Bulgarian Empire.
1185-1202: War against the Byzantines, most of the Bulgarian lands are liberated.

Campaigns of Emperor Ivan Asen II (1218-1241).

Campaigns of Emperor Theodore Svetoslav (1300-1321).

1202: War against the Hungarians and the Serbs, the Bulgarians liberated Nish, Belgrade and Branichevo.
1205-1211: War against the Latin Empire. Decisive victory in the battle of Adrianople (1205).
1230: Decisive victory over the Epyrotes in the battle of Klokotnitsa.
1235: Campaign against the Latins.
1237: Campaign against the Nicaean Empire.
1241: The Bulgarians defeat a Mongol raid.
1242-1243: Mongol raids against Bulgaria.
1253: Campaign against Serbia.
1254-1256: Unsuccessful war against the Nicaean Empire.
1259-1261: War against Hungary.
1274: Major Mongol raid.
1277-1280: Uprising of Ivaylo, wars against the Byzantines and the Mongols.
1280-1298: Mongol raids.

1304-1307: Successful war against the Byzantine Empire.
1322-1324: War against the Byzantine Empire.
1330: War against the Serbs, victory in the battle of Velbazhd
1330-1332: Successful war against the Byzantines, victory at Rusokastro.
1341-1344: Successful war against the Byzantines.
1352-1354: First Ottoman raids.
1354-1364: The Ottomans conquer Thrace.
1365-1369: Hungarian occupation of Vidin, the Hungarians are eventually repulsed.
1366: Campaign of Count Amadeo of Savoy against the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.
1371-1373: War against the Ottomans.
1384-1396: War against Wallachia.
1385: The Ottomans conquer Sofia.
1388: Ottoman campaign in north-eastern Bulgaria.
1393: Fall of Tarnovo.
1396: Fall of Vidin, end of the Second Empire.