Serbia

2 wars

Wars fought on the land of today's Serbia or by its peoples.

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Fall of Constantinople World War I

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World War I

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War
Fall of Constantinople
The Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire and Serbian Despotate (cavalry its ruler was forced to send as an Ottoman vassal)
against
The Byzantine Empire and its allies
Ancient Rome, Genoese soldiers under Giovanni Giustiniani, Venetians in the city, Ships and men sent by the Pope and by Alfonso of Aragon, and Ottoman prince Orhan Çelebi and his Turkish followers, who fought on the Byzantine side
The Ottoman Empire took Constantinople on 29 May 1453 and made it its capital; the Byzantine Empire ended with the death of Constantine XI.
War
World War I
Allies (Entente)
France, United Kingdom, Russian Empire (until 1917), Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Italy (from 1915), and United States
against
Central Powers
German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Kingdom of Bulgaria (from 1915)
The Allies won: Germany signed an armistice on 11 November 1918 and the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, and the German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman empires broke up.