0 supporting or relating to a policy of returning land to a country that it belonged to in the past: --
nationalist and irredentist forces
1 someone who supports a policy of returning land to a country that it belonged to in the past: --
The people threw out the irredentist and elected a peacemaker.
Typically, irredentist demands are at first made by members of non-state nationalist movements.
Stamatiad and the other arrivals stood accused of pushing the irredentist cause, but they denied this was the case, publishing an explanatory open letter.
Irredentist claims are usually based on the fact that an identifiable part of the national group lives across the border.
The minorities are not particularly irredentist.
We therefore have about 12 million irredentists, who, sooner or later, are going to turn round the other way and probably will get back to where they started.
There may be rival local authorities which have been set up by irredentist movements in the local population and which would probably be, under the circumstances, revolutionary organisations.
Above all, this is a region of irredentist claims.
What we have to do now is to avoid doing anything that will again create irredentist feelings.
