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RECENT POSTSirredenta
ir-i-DEN-tuh
noun
a geographic area or ethnic group related politically to one group but controlled politically by another group
1882New Arabian NightsWell,' said he, 'here is a toast in the meantime: 'Italia Irredenta!''1915The War and DemocracyAll that still remained to be won was Venice, which Austria ceded in 1866; Rome, which the French had occupied in the name of the Pope, and were forced to evacuate in 1870; and the Italia Irredenta of to-day, viz. the Trentino, Trieste, and Istria, which may be recovered as a result of the present war.1922Public OpinionThe only part of them that could possibly procure allied sympathy was that which would recover the genuine Italia Irredenta.Labels: Alfred E. Zimmern, Arthur Greenwood, J. Dover Wilson, R.W. Seton-Watson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Lippmann
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