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The siege of Dubrovnik ( Serbo-Croatian: opsada Dubrovnika, опсада Дубровника) was a military engagement fought between the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Croatian forces defending the city of Dubrovnik and its surroundings during the Croatian War of Independence. The JNA started its advance on 1 October 1991, and by late ...
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The Walls of Dubrovnik ( Croatian: Dubrovačke gradske zidine) are a series of defensive stone walls surrounding the city of Dubrovnik in southern Croatia. [Note 1] [1] Ramparts were built in the outlying areas of the city, including the mountain slopes as part of a set of statues from 1272. [2] The existing city walls were constructed mainly ...
The 1991 Yugoslav campaign in Croatia was a series of engagements between the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), the Yugoslav Navy and the Yugoslav Air Force, and the Croatian National Guard (ZNG) then the Croatian Army (HV) during the Croatian War of Independence. The JNA was originally deployed in order to preserve Yugoslavia, and the initial plan ...
Clockwise from top left: the central street of Dubrovnik, the Stradun, in ruins during the Siege of Dubrovnik; the damaged Vukovar water tower, a symbol of the early conflict, flying the Flag of Croatia; the Vukovar Memorial Cemetery; a Serbian T-55 tank destroyed on the road to Drniš; soldiers of the Croatian Army preparing to destroy a Serbian tank; A destroyed Yugoslav People's Army tank
The Siege of Mostar was fought during the Bosnian War first in 1992 and then again later in 1993 to 1994. Initially lasting between April 1992 and June 1992, it involved the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) fighting against the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared its independence from ...
The Surrender at Ozora, was an important event of the early stage of the Hungarian War of independence of 1848-1849.The 9,000 strong Croatian corps which invaded the Transdanubia region of Hungary, trying to join the Croatian main army led by Lieutenant General Josip Jelačić, which was sent by the Habsburg Empire to chase away the revolutionary government of Hungary, and reimpose the total ...
Expansion of the Ottoman Empire in Europe was stopped in Battle of Sisak 1593. The Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War (Croatian: Stogodišnji hrvatsko-turski rat, [1] [2] Stogodišnji rat protiv Turaka, [3] [4] Stogodišnji rat s Osmanlijama [5]) was a sequence of conflicts, mostly of relatively low intensity ("Small War", Croatian: Mali rat ...