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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".
Explanations of irredentism try to determine what causes irredentism, how it unfolds, and how it can be peacefully resolved. [18] Various hypotheses have been proposed but there is still very little consensus on how irredentism is to be explained despite its prevalence and its long history of provoking armed conflicts.
During the late 19th century and early 20th century, a number of South African and British political leaders advocated for a Greater South Africa. This irredentism can be regarded as an early form of Pan-Africanism , albeit strictly limited to White Africans of European ancestry .
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.
Pages in category "Irredentism" ... History of Northern Epirus from 1913 to 1921; I. ... Greater South Africa; T. Tabori Movement; Great Timor;
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.
Simon Petru Cristofini (1903–1943), also known as Pietro Simone Cristofini (French: Pierre Simon Cristofini), was a Corsican soldier who commanded the Phalange Africaine during Tunisia Campaign in World War II and was executed for treason by French authorities because of his support for Italian irredentism in Corsica during the Italian occupation of Corsica.
Irredentism is politically fragmented (East Turkestan Liberation Organization, East Turkestan independence movement) Limited autonomy in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Zulu people [citation needed] Zulu language: Volta-Congo languages: Christianity, Zulu religion: 12,159,000 Africa South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Eswatini: KwaZulu-Natal