European war
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concept
A European war is a large-scale armed conflict primarily involving multiple nation-states within Europe, often driven by territorial, political, or ideological disputes that significantly reshape the continent’s balance of power.
Aliases (19)
- medieval conflict ×9
- Napoleonic Wars campaign ×7
- 18th-century war ×2
- battle of the Napoleonic Wars ×2
- 17th-century war ×1
- Dutch War of Independence ×1
- European wars of religion ×1
- French Revolutionary War ×1
- German offensive ×1
- German unification war ×1
- Italian war ×1
- Napoleonic Wars ×1
- Napoleonic conflict ×1
- Ottoman–European conflict ×1
- Silesian War ×1
- early modern European history event ×1
- early modern European war ×1
- early modern war ×1
- prelude to the Winter War ×1
Instances (50)
- Nine Years' War
- European wars of religion ("early modern European history event")
- War of the Quadruple Alliance
- Battle of Trafalgar ("battle of the Napoleonic Wars")
- Italian Wars
- War of the Austrian Succession
- First Barons' War ("medieval conflict")
- Investiture Controversy ("medieval conflict")
- Operation Nordwind ("German offensive")
- French Revolutionary Wars
- Long Turkish War ("early modern European war")
- Soviet–Finnish negotiations of 1938–1939 ("prelude to the Winter War")
- Great Northern War ("early modern war")
- Eighty Years' War ("Dutch War of Independence")
- Thirty Years' War
- Williamite War in Ireland ("17th-century war")
- Hundred Years' War ("medieval conflict")
- War of the Third Coalition ("Napoleonic Wars campaign")
- Great Turkish War
- War of the Fourth Coalition ("Napoleonic Wars campaign")
- War of the Fifth Coalition ("Napoleonic Wars")
- War of the Sixth Coalition ("Napoleonic Wars campaign")
- War of the Seventh Coalition ("Napoleonic Wars campaign")
- Coalition Wars
- French invasion of Russia ("Napoleonic Wars campaign")
- War of the Second Coalition
- Third Silesian War ("Silesian War")
- War of the First Coalition ("French Revolutionary War")
- Austro-Prussian War ("German unification war")
- Second Barons' War ("medieval conflict")
- War of the Spanish Succession
- War of the Sicilian Vespers ("medieval conflict")
- Franco-Dutch War
- Cologne War ("European wars of religion")
- Battle of Copenhagen ("battle of the Napoleonic Wars")
- Carnatic Wars ("18th-century war")
- War of the Polish Succession
- Crusades ("medieval conflict")
- Byzantine–Bulgarian wars ("medieval conflict")
- Scottish–Norwegian conflict over the Western Isles ("medieval conflict")
- Albigensian Crusade ("medieval conflict")
- Seven Years' War ("18th-century war")
- Patriotic War of 1812 ("Napoleonic Wars campaign")
- Habsburg–Valois conflict
- Walcheren Campaign ("Napoleonic Wars campaign")