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Irredentism is the desire of a state, or of some people in a state, for annexation of land that another state has. The ones who want the land say it really belongs to them because the other state stole it, or because they wish to liberate people of the same ethnicity or other connection who live there. The term was invented in the 1870s when the unification of Italy left some Italian people in places ruled by someone else.

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  • The Geography Lesson or "The Black Spot"

    The 1887 painting La Tache Noire ('The Black Spot') by Albert Bettannier, depicting schoolboys in France being taught about the province of Alsace–Lorraine, which was lost in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and which is depicted by black colouring on a map of France.

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Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Irredentismo para niños

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