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   Irredentism is usually understood as a desire that one state annexes a   
   territory of another state. This desire can be motivated by ethnic reasons   
   because the population of the territory is ethnically similar to the   
   population of the parent state.    
   Historical reason may also be responsible, i.e., that the territory formed   
   part of the parent state before. However, difficulties in applying the concept   
   to concrete cases have given rise to academic disputes about its precise   
   definition. Disagreements    
   concern whether either or both ethnic and historical reasons have to be   
   present and whether non-state actors can also engage in irredentism. A further   
   dispute is whether attempts to absorb a full neighboring state are also   
   included. There are various    
   types of irredentism. One categorization distinguishes between cases in which   
   the parent state exists before the conflict and cases in which a new parent   
   state is formed by uniting an ethnic group spread across several countries.   
   Another distinction    
   concerns whether the target country is a state, a former colony, or a   
   collapsed state.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irredentism   
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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_irredentist_claims_or_disputes   
      
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