"centuries of war" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it in a sentence like this: "Throughout the centuries of war, many lives were lost in battle."
After centuries of war, the Vietnamese psyche looks forward.
The European Union is not only the peaceful response to centuries of war on our continent.
It may take a year to hammer out the details of the code a twinkling of an eye when set against the centuries of war over places.
Once completed, the Turkish conquest included Bulgaria in a "Pax Ottomanica" that was a marked contrast to the preceding centuries of war and conflict.
Poland and Russia, scarred by centuries of war, had never managed after 1945 to find the right words, or an event, that could lead them toward reconciliation.
After centuries of war, strife and intolerance, the people of Earth had finally shed their fears and prejudices and attained the best of all possible worlds: global peace.
He reached out to Muslims and called on them to forgive the centuries of wars, dating back to the Crusades.
It has taken centuries of wars, revolutions and religious upheavals for Western society to overthrow sovereign rule and evolve to our current democratic system.
After ten centuries of wars, defeats, and victories, the Byzantine Empire came to an end when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in May 1453.
Beyond commemorating the end of centuries of wars and hatreds across the Rhine, the events will project a French notion of joint leadership.
During the Edo period a new era of peace and prosperity came to Japan after centuries of wars and civil upset.
