Vojvodina Conflict (Napoleon's World)

The Vojvodina Conflict (Serbian: Војводина Цонфлицт; Magyar: Vajdasági konfliktus), also the Vojvodina Dispute, is an armed conflict ongoing since 2015 and is one of several post-Imperial conflicts in Central Europe stemming from the collapse of Danubia. The dispute stems from the status of Vojvodina in the Pannonian Basin - ethnically majority Serbian, but with substantial Hungarian and German minorities totaling over a million. After the collapse of Danubia, Serbian separatists in Vojvodina held a vote to join Serbia. The vote was boycotted by German and Hungarians, who responded with violence when the Serbian Army entered Vojvodina to enforce the claim after Hungary declared it to be "crucial Hungarian territory." The Hungarian Army entered Vojvodina a week later. Due to the ongoing Transylvanian War and the Slovak Border War, Hungary was unable to commit the amount of necessary troops and settled into a stalemate, with an unofficial ceasefire honored by both sides since late 2016. Much of the violence since then has been carried out by paramilitary non-state actors, with ethnic violence including ethnic cleansing and religious violence being common. As of March 2019, an estimated 50,000 people have been killed and there have been close to 700,000 displaced persons in a region with a prewar population of close to three million.