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.
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