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[4] [8] This definition implies, for example, that the majority of the border disputes in the history of Latin America were not forms of irredentism. [12] Usually, irredentism is defined in terms of the motivation of the irredentist state, even if the territory is annexed against the will of the local population. [ 13 ]
This is a list of irredentist claims or disputes.Irredentism is any political or popular movement that seeks to claim or reclaim and occupy a land that the movement's members consider to be a "lost" (or "unredeemed") territory from their nation's past.
Alemannisch; العربية; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Bosanski
This is also the definition that we use in the irredentism article. Admittedly, we have some sub-national irredentism movements (for example: Chechnya's claim on part of Dagestan) which I'm fine with. With the Kurdistan example, the only possible case of irredentism is with the Iraqi Kurdish claims on Kirkuk and parts of Nineveh and Diyala ...
Map of the Low Countries. In the main variant, Pan-Netherlands entails a union of these three countries. Pan-Netherlands [1] [2] (Dutch: Heel-Nederland), sometimes translated as Whole-Netherlands, is an irredentist concept which aims to unite the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg) into a single state. [3]
Italian ethnic regions claimed in the 1930s: * Green: Nice, Ticino and Dalmatia * Red: Malta * Violet: Corsica * Savoy and Corfu were later claimed. Italian irredentism (Italian: irredentismo italiano [irredenˈtizmo itaˈljaːno]) was a political movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Italy with irredentist goals which promoted the unification of geographic areas in which ...
Greater Morocco as claimed by the Istiqlal Party, 1956. Greater Morocco is a label historically used by some Moroccan nationalist political leaders protesting against Spanish, French and Portuguese rule, to refer to wider territories historically associated with the Moroccan sultan.
Greater Belgium with less common claims in light green. Greater Belgium (French: Plus Grande Belgique, Dutch: Groter België) is a Belgian irredentist concept which lays claim on territory nationalists deem as rightfully Belgian.