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The Iraqi Republic under Abd al-Karim Qasim held an irredentist claim to Khuzestan. [91] It also held irredentist claims to Kuwait. [92] Saddam Hussein's government sought to annex several territories. In the Iran–Iraq War, Ba'athist Iraq claimed it had the right to hold sovereignty to the east bank of the Shatt al-Arab river held by Iran. [89]
Pages in category "German irredentism" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
A closely related explanation argues that national identities based primarily on ethnicity, culture, and history increase irredentist tendencies. Another approach is to explain irredentism as an attempt to increase power and wealth. In this regard, it is argued that irredentist claims are more likely if the neighboring territory is relatively rich.
The region of South Tyrol had been a place of contending claims and conflict between German nationalism and Italian nationalism.One of the leading founders of Italian nationalism, Giuseppe Mazzini, along with Ettore Tolomei, counterfactually claimed that the German-speaking South Tyrolian population were in fact mostly a Germanicized population of Roman origin who needed to be "liberated and ...
Knowing that many within the Italian government were highly concerned about the possibility of an irredentist campaign to claim the German-speaking South Tyrol region of Italy, which had belonged to the Austrian empire until 1918, Mackensen repeatedly promised Mussolini that Germany regarded the frontier on the Brenner Pass as the established ...
The woman, exercising her right under German privacy law for her name not to be made public, is suing the German vaccine maker for at least 150,000 euro ($161,500) in damages for bodily harm as ...
An appeals court in the German city of Stuttgart on Tuesday rejected damage claims against a physician who was accused of not warning of alleged harm from a COVID-19 vaccine she administered. The ...
The subsequent interwar economic crisis acted as a fertile ground for irredentist claims that the territory ceded to Poland, Czechoslovakia and Lithuania in 1919–1922 should be returned to Germany, which paved the way for the Nazi takeover of the government.