irredentan.
/ɪrɪˈdɛntə/ A region containing people who are ethnically related to the inhabitants of one state but are politically subject to another. Also, post-positively, as adj.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > irredenta
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1914 Everybody's Mag. Sept. 333 These million Germans along the Baltic..constitute a Germania Irredenta which is one of the things that Kaiser Wilhelm is after.
1916 Times Hist. War 31 Oct. 407/2 Rumanian interests would..have become wholly identified with those of the Central European bloc but for the fact that between them loomed the question of Rumania irredenta.
1916 Times Hist. War 31 Oct. 408/2 She [sc. Rumania] had no territorial irredenta to secure.
1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 73 British Honduras still is regarded by the Guatemalans as an irredenta.
1938 H. Nicolson Diary 22 Aug. (1966) 356 Even if Germany absorbed a portion of the Ukraine, how would it benefit her? It would create an irredenta and perpetuate Russo-German enmity.
1967 Punch 1 Feb. 141/2 They annexed Tibet, but they had argued themselves into the belief that this was ancient Chinese territory, China irredenta.
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