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A different definition characterizes irredentism as the attempt of an ethnic minority to break away and join their "real" motherland even though this minority is a non-state actor. [ 4 ] The reason for engaging in territorial conflict is another issue, with some scholars stating that irredentism is primarily motivated by ethnicity.
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.
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 ...
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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 ...
From roughly the 16th century to the 20th century, the Russian Empire followed an expansionist policy. [n 1] Few of these actions had irredentist justifications, though the conquest of parts of the Ottoman Empire in the Caucasus in 1877 to bring Armenian Christians under the protection of the Tsar may represent one example. [3]
The Italian irredentism in Istria was the political movement supporting the unification to Italy, during the 19th and 20th centuries, of the peninsula of Istria. It is considered closely related to the Italian irredentism in Trieste and Rijeka (Fiume) , two cities bordering the peninsula.
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