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:
Conflict | Armenian side (and allies) | Opponent | Results | Notable battles | |
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Campaigns of Artaxias I (189–165 BCE) | Kingdom of Armenia Kingdom of Sophene | 25px Atropatene Kingdom of Cataonia Kingdom of Pontus Lesser Armenia Kingdom of Iberia | Victory
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Seleucid-Armenian War (168–165 BCE) | Kingdom of Armenia Kingdom of Sophene | Seleucid Empire | Victory
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Armenian-Iberian War (168–165 BCE)[1] [2] | Kingdom of Armenia | Kingdom of Iberia Kingdom of Alania | Compromise
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Armenia invaded by Parthian Empire (120–100 BCE?) | Kingdom of Armenia | Parthian Empire 25px Atropatene | Defeat
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Military campaigns of Tigranes the Great (95–78 BCE) | Kingdom of Armenia | 25px Atropatene | Victory
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Third Mithridatic War (73–66 BC) | Kingdom of Armenia 25px Kingdom of Pontus | 25px Roman Republic | Defeat |
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Iberian–Armenian War (50–53 AD) | Kingdom of Armenia | 25px Kingdom of Iberia | Victory
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Roman–Parthian War of 58–63 | Kingdom of Armenia Parthian Empire | Roman Empire Sophene Lesser Armenia Kingdom of Iberia Commagene Kingdom of Pontus | Victory
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Ardashir I invasion of Armenia (226–238) | Kingdom of Armenia | 25px Sasanian Empire | Victory
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Conflict | Armenian side (and allies) | Opponent | Results | |
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Battle of Vardanakert (702 - 703) | Arminiya | Umayyad Caliphate | Victory
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Battle of Bagrevand (25 April 775) | Armenian princes | Abbasid Caliphate | Defeated
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Battle of Sevan (921) (part of Arab–Byzantine wars) | Bagratid Armenia | Sajid dynasty | Armenian victory |
Conflict | Armenian side (and allies) | Opponent | Result | Notable battles |
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Russo-Persian War (1804–1813) | Qajar Iran | Russian Empire |
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Russo-Persian War (1826–1828) |
| Capture of Erivan (1 October 1827) - Russian victory |
Conflict | Armenian side (and allies) | Opponent | Results | Notable battles | |
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Caucasus Campaign (World War I) (1918) | Armenian National Council | Armistice
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Armenian–Azerbaijani War (1918–1920) | First Republic of Armenia | Azerbaijan | Indecisive
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Georgian–Armenian War (1918) | First Republic of Armenia | Inconclusive
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Turkish–Armenian War/Soviet invasion of Armenia (1920) | First Republic of Armenia | Turkey | Defeat
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Conflict | Armenian side (and allies) | Opponent | Results | |
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First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994) | Armenia | Azerbaijan | Victory
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2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict | Armenia | Azerbaijan | Inconclusive | |
Second Nagorno-Karabakh war (2020) | Armenia | Azerbaijan | Defeat |