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List Of Wars Involving Armenia

This is a list of wars involving Armenia and its predecessor states. The list gives the name, the date, the combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:

  Armenian victory
  Defeat
  Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result,
status quo ante Bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive)
  Ongoing conflict
Conflict Armenian side (and allies) Opponent Results
Kingdom of Armenia (331 BC–428 AD)
Campaigns of Artaxias I
(189–165 BCE)
Kingdom of Armenia
Kingdom of Sophene
Atropatene
Kingdom of Cataonia
Kingdom of Pontus
Lesser Armenia
Kingdom of Iberia
Victory
  • The Median regions of Caspiana, Faunitida, and Basolropeda come under Armenian control.
  • Atropatene comes under Artaxias's zone of influence.
  • Armenia conquers the regions of Karenitis, Derksen, Akilisene and Antitaurus.
Seleucid-Armenian War
(168–165 BCE)
Kingdom of Armenia
Kingdom of Sophene
Seleucid Empire Victory
Armenian-Iberian War
(168–165 BCE)
Kingdom of Armenia Kingdom of Iberia
Kingdom of Alania
Compromise
  • Artaxias I's general and son Zariadres captured, would be released on the following terms:
  • Javakheti, Ardahan, and the Fortress of Demotistsikhe would be ceded to Iberia
  • A defensive alliance between Armenia and Iberia would be formed
Armenia invaded by Parthian Empire
(120–100 BCE?)
Kingdom of Armenia Parthian Empire
Atropatene
Defeat
  • Territorial gains for Parthia
  • Tigranes II given as a hostage to Parthian court
Military campaigns of Tigranes the Great
(95–78 BCE)
Kingdom of Armenia Atropatene Victory
Third Mithridatic War (73–66 BC)
Kingdom of Armenia
Kingdom of Pontus
Roman Republic Defeat
  • Pontus is divided up: one part becomes a client state of Rome, the other a Roman province.
  • Armenia becomes a client kingdom of Rome.
  • Tigranacerta destroyed in 69 bc.
Armenia–Iberian War
(50–53 AD)
Kingdom of Armenia Kingdom of Iberia Victory
Roman–Parthian War of 58–63 Kingdom of Armenia
Parthian Empire
Roman Empire
Sophene
Lesser Armenia
Kingdom of Iberia
Commagene
Kingdom of Pontus
Victory
Ardashir I invasion of Armenia
(226–238)
Kingdom of Armenia Sasanian Empire Victory
  • After twelve years of fighting against Tiridates II, Ardashir I withdrew his army and left Armenia.
  • Tiridates II strengthen his positions in Middle East
Armenian Principality of Cilicia (1080–1198)
Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (1198–1375)
First Crusade
(1096–1099)
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of France
Duchy of Apulia
Byzantine Empire
Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
Great Seljuq Empire
Danishmends
Fatimids
Almoravids
Abbasids
Victory
Second Crusade
(1145–1149)
Kingdom of Jerusalem
County of Tripoli
Principality of Antioch
Kingdom of France
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of Portugal
Kingdom of Castile
County of Barcelona
Kingdom of León
Kingdom of Denmark
Byzantine Empire
Kingdom of Cilicia
Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Poland
Seljuq Sultanate
Almoravids
Almohads
Zengids
Abbasids
Fatimids
Defeat in Anatolia


Victory in Iberia

Armenian–Byzantine wars
(1151–1168)
Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia Byzantine Empire Victory
  • Armenians inflicted a heavy defeat to the Byzantine army in the battle of Mamistra
  • The Byzantine Empire abandoned its pretensions to the Armenian state
War with Antioch
(1156)
Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia Principality of Antioch

Supported by:
Byzantine Empire

Compromise
  • After a short battle near Alexendretta, Raynald of Châtillon was forced to return home, covered with humiliation
  • Thoros voluntarily surrendered to the Temlpars the fortresses in question, and the Knights took an oath “to assist the Armenians on all occasions where they needed help.”
  • Having secured the land he wanted, Raynald demanded his subsidies from the emperor who refused them, pointing out that the main task had yet to be done. Raynald quickly sided with Thoros and conspired to attack Cyprus
Third Crusade
(1189–1192)
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of England
Kingdom of France
Crusader States

Military Orders
Kingdom of Cilician Armenia
Kingdom of Hungary
Republic of Genoa
Republic of Pisa

Ayyubid Sultanate

Sultanate of Rûm


Nizari Ismaili:
Christian opponents:
Victory
  • Treaty of Jaffa, the result of Crusader military victories and successful sieges.
Ninth Crusade
(1271–1272)
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of Cyprus
Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Cilicia
Mamluks Defeat
  • Treaty of Caesarea
  • Crusader states collapsed
Armenian national–liberation movement (18th century–1918)
Persian Campaign
(1914-1918)
Russian Empire Russian Empire (1914-1917)

British Empire British Empire
Assyrian volunteers

Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire
Qajar Iran Qajar Iran
Victory
First Republic of Armenia (1918–1920)
Caucasus Campaign
(World War I)

(1918)
Armenia Armenian National Council  Ottoman Empire Armistice
Armenian–Azerbaijani War
(1918–1920)
Armenia First Republic of Armenia Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Indecisive
  • Battle of Kazakh
  • Sovietization of Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Karabakh and Nakhchivan dispute settled in favor of Azerbaijan
  • Zangezur came under Armenia's control.
Georgian–Armenian War
(1918)
Armenia First Republic of Armenia  Georgia Inconclusive
  • Armenia gains the province of Lori.
  • With the intervention of Great Britain, a truce was concluded between Armenia and Georgia.
Turkish–Armenian War/Soviet invasion of Armenia
(1920)
Armenia First Republic of Armenia Turkey
 Russian SFSR
Defeat
Soviet Social Republic of Armenia (1920–1991)
World War II
(1939–1945)
 Soviet Union Germany Victory
Republic of Armenia (1991–)
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
(1988–1994)
 Armenia
 Nagorno-Karabakh
 Azerbaijan Victory
Armenian victory
2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict  Armenia
 Nagorno-Karabakh
 Azerbaijan
Inconclusive
Inconclusive (see aftermath)
  • Azerbaijan claims victory
  • Armenia claims to have successfully repelled the Azerbaijani offensive
Second Nagorno-Karabakh war
(2020)
 Armenia
 Artsakh
 Azerbaijan Defeat
Azerbaijani victory

See also