irredentism

English

Etymology

From irredent(ist) +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪɹɪˈdɛntɪzəm/

Noun

irredentism (usually uncountable, plural irredentisms)

1. A nationalistic doctrine advocating the annexation of foreign lands with historic or ethnic links.
   • 2015, Serhii Plokhy, chapter 21, in The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine:

     Ukraine became a major concern to [Stalin’s] “fortress builders” on the eve of World War II. The defensive bulwark seemed to have developed into a large crack – the threat of Ukrainian irredentism.

Related terms

• irredenta
• irredentist

Translations

an annexation doctrine

• Albanian: irredentizëm (sq) m
• Arabic: وَحْدَوِيّة f (waḥdawiyya)
• Armenian: իռեդենտիզմ (iṙedentizm), վերադարձականություն (veradarjakanutʻyun)
• Asturian: irredentismu m
• Basque: irredentismo
• Belarusian: ірэдэнтызм m (iredentyzm)
• Bulgarian: иредентизъм m (iredentizǎm)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: irredemptisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 領土收復主義 / 领土收复主义 (lǐngtǔ shōufù zhǔyì), 民族統一主義 / 民族统一主义 (mínzútǒngyīzhǔyì)

• Czech: iredentismus m
• Danish: irredentisme c
• Dutch: irredentisme (nl) m
• Esperanto: iredentismo
• Finnish: irredentismi (fi)
• French: irrédentisme (fr) m
• Friulian: iredentisim m
• Galician: irredentismo m
• Georgian: ირედენტიზმი (iredenṭizmi)
• German: Irredentismus (de) m
• Greek: αλυτρωτισμός (el) m (alytrotismós)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: irredentizmus (hu)
• Indonesian: iredentisme
• Italian: irredentismo (it) m
• Japanese: 民族統一主義 (みんぞくとういつしゅぎ, minzoku tōitsu shugi)
• Kazakh: ирредентизм (irredentizm)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 민족통일주의 (minjoktong'iljuui)
• Macedonian: иредентизам m (iredentizam)
• Mingrelian: ირედენტიზმი (iredenṭizmi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: irredentisme m

  Nynorsk: irredentisme m

• Persian: بازپیوندخواهی (fa)
• Polish: irredentyzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: irredentismo m
• Punjabi: ਬੇਨਿਸਤਾਰਾਵਾਦ (benistārāvād)
• Romanian: iredentism (ro) n
• Romansch: irredentissem m
• Russian: ирреденти́зм (ru) m (irredentízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: иредентѝзам m

  Roman: iredentìzam (sh) m

• Slovene: iredentízem m
• Spanish: irredentismo m
• Swedish: irredentism (sv)
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: irredantizm (tr)
• Ukrainian: іредентизм m (iredentyzm)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa phục hồi lãnh thổ, thuyết phục hồi lãnh thổ, chủ nghĩa xét lại
• Welsh: iredentiaeth f

See also

• revanchism
• war of aggression

 

Further reading

• irredentism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia