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A map of the 14th-century Serbian Empire. Following the growing nationalistic tendency in Europe from the 18th century onwards, such as the Unification of Italy, Serbia – after first gaining its principality within the Ottoman Empire in 1817 – experienced a popular desire for full unification with the Serbs of the remaining territories, mainly those living in neighbouring entities.
Used in the context of the Yugoslav wars, however, the Serbian struggle for Serbs to remain united in one country does not quite fit the term "irredentism". [149] In the 19th century, Pan-Serbism sought to unite all of the Serb people across the Balkans, under Ottoman and Habsburg rule.
Supporters of Catalan independence in Barcelona in October 2019 Scottish independence supporters in Glasgow.Scotland held an independence referendum on 18 September 2014. This is a list of currently active separatist movements in Europe.
Irredentism and revanchism are two closely related phenomena because both of them involve the attempt to annex territory which belongs to another state. [86] [87] [88] They differ concerning the motivation fuelling this attempt. Irredentism has a positive goal of building a "greater" state that fulfills the ideals of a nation-state.
The Mountain Wreath (Serbian: Горски вијенац / Gorski vijenac) [1] is a poem and a play written by Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrović-Njegoš.. Njegoš wrote The Mountain Wreath during 1846 in Cetinje and published it the following year after the printing in an Armenian monastery in Vienna.
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On 25 March 1991, the presidents of the Yugoslav federal states SR Croatia and SR Serbia, Franjo Tuđman and Slobodan Milošević, met at the Karađorđevo hunting ground in northwest Serbia. The publicized topic of their discussion was the ongoing Yugoslav crisis.