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.

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

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

   2 more examples

   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.

   1952, John Allen Krout, International Tensions in the Middle East

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

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