Longest war?

[Dachs]

Maybe I just know a different name, but I don't know to what that refers. Google directs me to Russo-Turkish Wars, and I know none of them went that long.

1663-1699. Began over the issue of Cossacks in the Ukraine and spread from there into Hungary and Transylvania. Included Siege of Vienna and subsequent Battle, and then the wider War of the Holy League which involved rolling back the Turks in Hungary. Ended with the Peace of Karlowitz in 1699.

 

[Sharwood]

1663-1699. Began over the issue of Cossacks in the Ukraine and spread from there into Hungary and Transylvania. Included Siege of Vienna and subsequent Battle, and then the wider War of the Holy League which involved rolling back the Turks in Hungary. Ended with the Peace of Karlowitz in 1699.

Ah, yes I know that one. Didn't realise it had anything to do with Cossacks though.

 

[Dachs]

Ah, yes I know that one. Didn't realise it had anything to do with Cossacks though.

Well, that's how the Poles got involved anyway. I'm personally not as clear on the Hungarian portion of the conflict.

 

[Agent327]

War between humans and Neanderthals.

That's no war, that's a myth.

So, everybody agreed on the 80 Years War?

 

[Sharwood]

That's no war, that's a myth.

So, everybody agreed on the 80 Years War?

Bah, then how do you explain Enkidu?

Seriously, I thought I replied to that post but apparently I shook my head and wandered off in confusion, because i didn't. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any conflict between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthals - fictional Scandinavian battles aside - and regardless, how do you measure the length of a war between two sides without writing or even much technology if it did?

 

[eastsidebagel]

The war against our natural drive to indulge into sleazyness and apathy. No kidding.

 

[JonathanStrange]

Perhaps if we're going to get somewhat vague: how about the war between civilization and barbarism? As R. E. Howard wrote:

“Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,” the borderer said, still staring at the Cimmerian. “Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.”

In my games, that's often the case!

 

[Antilogic]

Well, that's how the Poles got involved anyway. I'm personally not as clear on the Hungarian portion of the conflict.

They were in the way.

 

[GoodGame]

The war against our natural drive to indulge into sleazyness and apathy. No kidding.

I betcha the war against carbohydrates will beat that by over 100 years:

Letter on Corpulence (advocating a low-carbohydrate diet), published 1863 by William Banting, undertaker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Banting

 

[eastsidebagel]

My suggestion was that our own self-destructive nature is the cause for most wars. Therefore, if you want to abolish war on our planet, you are required to change our species itself before you might have success with it.

 

[Dachs]

So, everybody agreed on the 80 Years War?

Yeah, you're right - thirty-six years from Doroshenko to Karlowitz. Is that longer than both of the phases of the Dutch Revolt?

Not quite.

 

[Agarwaen]

Yeah, you're right - thirty-six years from Doroshenko to Karlowitz. Is that longer than both of the phases of the Dutch Revolt?

The first phase of the 80 years war was from 1568 til 1607, 39 years. Still longer.

 

[Yui108]

kingdom of jerusalem and the fatimids were at a near-constant state of war for 150 years...

 

[Rossiya]

Only till 1914? French-hating is a national sport of the English!

The feeling is reciprocated.

But I'm sure you knew that.

 

[Dachs]

The first phase of the 80 years war was from 1568 til 1607, 39 years. Still longer.

Cool. That was easy.

 

[Taras Bulba]

I read somewhere that the Netherlands declared war on some small British Isle a long time ago, and only technically ended that war a few years ago. However, I have no idea which British Isle it was, when exactly the war started, or for what reason.

might you be referring to the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years War?

but if "peace" terms are accepted in between, I'd say Arab-Israeli conflicts have gone on for a good 2.5 millennia.

 

[Agent327]

Actually, the armistice lasted from 1609-'21, and sporadic fighting continued during that time.

 

[Dachs]

but if "peace" terms are accepted in between, I'd say Arab-Israeli conflicts have gone on for a good 2.5 millennia.

No, they haven't.

 

[North King]

Dachs would know better than I, but what about any of the Sassanid-Roman wars?

Even so, I would go with the Arauco War.

 

[Loki130]

everything vs. everything