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Battle of Yenidje
The Battle of Yenidze (Greek: Μάχη των Γιαννιτσών, Battle of Giannitsa) was a Greek victory over Ottoman forces at Giannitsa, Macedonia, on 19–20 October 1912.
Battle of Yiling
The Battle of Yiling (夷陵之战), also called the Battle of Xiaoting, was a 221–222 war in which Lu Xun's Eastern Wu crushed Liu Bei's invading Shu Han army.
Battle of Yingzhou
The Battle of Yingzhou (应州之战) was a 1517 battle near Yingzhou in the Datong region, where the Zhengde Emperor in person turned back Dayan Khan's Mongol invasion.
Battle of Yinshan
The Battle of Yinshan was a 630 night attack by a Tang army of over 100,000 under Li Jing that crushed the Eastern Turks and dissolved their khaganate.
Battle of Yongle City
The Battle of Yongle City (永乐城之战) was the annihilation in 1082 of the Song garrison of the newly built Yongle fortress, attacked by Western Xia shortly after its completion.
Battle of Yongsan
The Battle of Yongsan (영산전투; 靈山戰鬪) was a Korean War engagement fought 1 to 5 September 1950 at Yongsan, South Korea, part of the Pusan Perimeter campaign.
Battle of Ypres
Battles of Ypres (Ieper), Belgium: five major First World War battles, 1914-1918, around an Allied salient. Includes First Ypres 1914, Second Ypres 1915 with the first lethal chlorine gas attack, and Third Ypres 1917, known as Passchendaele.
Battle of Yultong (율동 전투)
Battle of Yultong (율동 전투), also Battle of Yuldong: Korean War defense on April 22–23, 1951, north of Yeoncheon, where 900 Filipino soldiers of PEFTOK's 10th Battalion Combat Team held against Chinese Spring Offensive forces.
Battle of Yungay
The Battle of Yungay was a victory of Chilean and anti-Confederation Peruvian forces over Andrés de Santa Cruz on 20 January 1839 in northern Peru.
Battle of Yuyu
The Battle of Yuyu (阏与之战) was a Warring States battle of 269 BC in which Zhao She's Zhao army defeated a Qin force besieging Eyu in Shanxi.
Battle of Zacatecas
The Battle of Zacatecas, or Batalla de Zacatecas, was a 1914 battle of the Mexican Revolution in which Pancho Villa's forces destroyed the federal garrison at Zacatecas, Mexico.
Battle of Zadwórze
The Battle of Zadwórze was a battle of the Polish–Bolshevik War fought on 17 August 1920 near Lwów, in which a Polish volunteer battalion held off Budionny's cavalry.
Battle of Zama
Battle of Zama (202 BCE), final engagement of the Second Punic War, where Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal in North Africa, countering 80 war elephants with lane formations and cavalry under Laelius and Masinissa.
Battle of Zaoyang
The Battle of Zaoyang (枣阳之战) was a series of Jin sieges of the Southern Song frontier town of Zaoyang, repelled by Song forces under Zhao Fang from 1217 to 1219.
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang
The Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang (枣宜会战), called the Yichang Operation by Japan, was a 1940 Japanese offensive in Hubei that defeated Chinese forces around Zaoyang and captured Yichang, held until 1945.
Battle of Zapote Bridge
Battle of Zapote Bridge (Labanan sa Zapote), 17 February 1897: Filipino revolutionary forces under Emilio Aguinaldo defeated Spanish troops under Polavieja at the Zapote River bridge; engineer-general Edilberto Evangelista was killed. A second 1899 battle there was fought against Lawton's Americans.
Battle of Zaria
The Battle of Zaria was the 1902 takeover of the Fulani emirate of Zazzau in northern Nigeria by British forces, ending nearly a hundred years of emirate rule.
Battle of Zarumilla
The Battle of Zarumilla was a series of combats fought from 23 to 31 July 1941 along the Zarumilla River on the Peru–Ecuador border, ending in a Peruvian victory.
Battle of Zawiya
The Battle of Zawiya (معركة الزاوية) was a 2011 battle of the Libyan civil war between rebels and Gaddafi loyalists for the coastal city of Zawiya.
Battle of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah
Battle of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah (زوطر الشرقية): May 2026 fight for a Litani River bank village in Nabatieh district, southern Lebanon, during the 2026 Israel-Hezbollah war; Hezbollah claimed point-blank clashes, the IDF denied them, and Israel later fully occupied and demolished the village.
Battle of Zboriv
The Battle of Zboriv (Зборівська битва) was a 1649 battle in which Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack and Crimean Tatar armies fought King Jan II Casimir's Polish forces near Zboriv.
Battle of Zborov (1917)
The Battle of Zborov was a World War I engagement on July 2, 1917 near Zborov in Galicia, where the Czechoslovak Rifle Brigade broke through Austro-Hungarian lines.
Battle of Zebak (2026)
The Battle of Zebak (2026) was a series of armed clashes between the Afghanistan Freedom Front and the Taliban in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, starting July 23, 2026.
Battle of Zenta
The Battle of Zenta (زنتا معرکہ) was a battle on 11 September 1697 where Prince Eugene of Savoy decisively defeated Sultan Mustafa II's Ottoman army.
Battle of Zerabulak
The Battle of Zerabulak was a decisive engagement of the Russo-Bukharan War fought on 2 June 1868, in which General Kaufman routed the army of Emir Muzaffar of Bukhara.
Battle of Zhizhi
The Battle of Zhizhi (郅支之战) was a Han dynasty campaign in which Gan Yanshou and Chen Tang, acting without imperial authorization, killed the rival Xiongnu chanyu Zhi Zhi.
Battle of Zhongli
The Battle of Zhongli (钟离之战) was a 507 defensive battle of the Northern and Southern dynasties, in which the Liang army defeated Northern Wei's siege of Zhongli on the Huai River.
Battle of Zhovnyn
The Battle of Zhovnyn (Жовнинська битва) was the decisive 1638 defeat of Cossack rebels under Yakiv Ostrianyn and Dmytro Hunia by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ending the 1637–1638 uprising.
Battle of Zhovti Vody
The Battle of Zhovti Vody (Битва під Жовтими Водами) was the first major battle of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, where Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack-Tatar army destroyed a Polish force in 1648.
Battle of Zhuravno
The Battle of Zhuravno was a series of engagements fought from September to October 1676 between King Jan III Sobieski's Polish army and an Ottoman-Tatar force near the Dniester.