List of civil wars

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This is a list of civil wars.

This list is incomplete.

Past civil wars

Roman Republican civil wars, List of Roman Republic and Empire Civil Wars
The Brothers' Civil War, 1067-1072 (The war between King Alfonso of Leon and King Sancho of Castille)
The Anarchy, 1135-1153 (refers to the disorder during the reign of King Stephen of England)
English Wars of the Roses, c. 1455-1485
French Wars of Religion, 1562-1598
Rokosz of Zebrzydowski. 1606-1609 in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Wars of the Three Kingdoms (England, Ireland, Scotland) 1639-1651, can also refer to the Three Kingdoms (220-280) period of Chinese history which saw the empire divided between three states which were locked in almost continuous warfare
English Civil War, 1642-1649
Zulu Civil War, 1817-1819
American Civil War, 1861-1865
Russian Civil War, 1917-1921
Finnish Civil War, 1918
Irish Civil War, 1922-1923
Genpei War (Japan), 1180-1185
Onin War (Japan), 1467-1477
Sengoku Period (Japan), 1467-1615
Boshin War (Japan), 1868-1869
Warring States Period (China), 475 BCE-221 BCE
Taiping Civil War (China), 1851-1864
Chinese Civil War, 1928-1937, 1945-1949
Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Greek Civil War, 1946-1949
Paraguayan Civil War, 1947
Korean Civil War, 1950-1953
Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970
Pakistan (Bengal) Civil War 1972 equally known as the Bangladesh War of Independence
Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1991
Romania had a brief civil war in 1989, after the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu, between Communists and those against the former regime.
Vietnamese War, 1930-1975

Contemporary civil wars

The following civil wars are ongoing or ended in the past decade, as of 2005. Some of them may be classified as insurrections, etc., rather than full civil wars, as they fade into the past.

Afghanistan, 1992-2002
Angola, 1974-1989, 1995-1997, 1998-2002
Burundi, 1988-1991, 1993-2001
Cambodia, 1978-1993, 1997-1998
First Chechen War (1994-1996), Second Chechen War (1999-present), Chechnya, Russia
Colombia, 1964-present
First Congo War, Zaire, 1996-1997
Second Congo War, DRC, 1998-present
Republic of the Congo, 1997, 1998
C�te d'Ivoire, 1999-2000, 2002-present
East Timor/Indonesia, 1975-1999
Georgian Civil War, Abkhazia, South Ossetia in Georgia
Guatemala, 1960-1996
Kurdistan, Iraq, Kurdish Democratic Party, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, 1961-1970, 1988-2003
Iraq, 2005, on the verge of descent.
Israel, 1967-present, see Palestinian territories etc
Liberia, 1989-1996, 1999-present
Chiapas, Mexico, 1994-present; see Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Nepalese People's War, Nepal, 1996-present
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, The Troubles (late 1960s — mid-1990s), Northern Ireland peace process
Philippines, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, 1972-1996, 2001-Present
Rwanda, 1990-1997
Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, 1983-2001
Sierra Leone, 1991-2002
Somalian Civil War, 1991-present
Sudanese Civil War, Sudan, 1955-1972, 1983-present
Tajikistan Civil War, Tajikistan, 1992-1997
Uganda, 1987-present
Yemen, 1979-1989, 1994, 2000s
Yugoslav wars, Yugoslavia, 1991-1995, 1996-1999, 2001

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List of civil wars

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Past civil wars

Contemporary civil wars

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