Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In North Africa, the prime examples of irredentism are the concepts of Greater Morocco and Greater Mauritania. [53] While Mauritania has since relinquished any claims to territories outside its internationally recognized borders, Morocco continues to claim Western Sahara, which it refers to as its "Southern Provinces".
Advocacy Groups: Goringhaicona Khoikhoin Indigenous Traditional Council, [a] [6] First Indigenous Nation of South Africa (FINSA) Status: Unrecognized; Volkstaat. Ethnic group: Afrikaners. Proposed state or autonomous area: Volkstaat [101] Political Party: Freedom Front Plus (in parliament and member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples ...
Irredentism is a widespread phenomenon and has been an influential force in world politics since the mid-nineteenth century. It has been responsible for countless conflicts. There are still many unresolved irredentist disputes today that constitute discords between nations.
It’s many years since ISIS, also known as Islamic State, held sway over much of Syria and northern Iraq a time when it spawned affiliates throughout Africa and Asia and organized a series of ...
The proposed Greater Mauritania shown within Africa. Greater Mauritania (Arabic: موريتانيا الكبرى) is a term for the Mauritanian irredentist claim that generally includes the Western Sahara and other Sahrawi-populated areas of the western Sahara Desert.
The greatest concentration of "Red Zone" nations, countries with the most severe actions taken against Christians, including torture and death, were found in a strip of land in Africa known as the ...
Separatist sentiments first occurred in 1914, when Frederick Lugard unified the Northern Nigeria Protectorate (predominantly Muslim) and the Southern Nigeria Protectorate (predominantly pagan/animist and Christian) into the single colony of Nigeria.
Map of "Whole Azerbaijan" according to Azerbaijani historian Adalet Tahirzade [] [1]Azerbaijani nationalism is characterized by irredentism.While the Armenian nationalist claims and anger are directed towards Turkey due to the Armenian genocide, the Azerbaijani nationalists are focused on Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh, and portions of Armenia, particularly the Syunik Province.