Irredentism

How it is used

Attribute territorial claims to their advocates; the term does not establish their legitimacy.

Example sentences

1. The party's irredentism focused on communities beyond the border.

   The territorial claim is framed through national belonging.

2. Her map compares the regions targeted by rival forms of irredentism.

   Competing national claims may concern the same territory.

Common collocations

• territorial irredentism
• irredentist claims

Related terms

• nationalismThe idea that people who share a language, culture or history form a nation, and that this nation should have its own state or govern itself.
• annexTo take control of a territory and make it officially part of one's own state, often by force or without the agreement of the people living there.

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• conquest
• armistice
• alliance
• siege
• Cold War
• world war
• campaign
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