irridenta

English

Noun

irridenta (plural irridentas)

1. A region that has ethnic or historic ties to a political entity (such as a country) other than the one that rules it.
   • 1952, John Allen Krout, International Tensions in the Middle East:

     The Iranians likewise enjoy myths about the origin of the Iranian peoples, their glorious past, the superiority of their language and the need to use it for political unification, a xenophobia about strangers or newcomers, and an immense irridenta.

   • 1991, Stanoje Ivanović, The Creation and Changes of the Internal Borders of Yugoslavia:

     The position of the Third Congress of the CPY regarding individual irridenta and separatist national movements is rather interesting.

   • 2011, Barry Scott Zellen, State of Doom, →ISBN:

     Fear of future military attack and demands for precautionary frontier delimitations have created irridentas over all Europe.