Irredentism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  irredentism \irredentism\ n.
     the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the
     country to which they are ethnically or historically related.
  
     Syn: irridentism.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  irredentism
       n : the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the
           country to which they are ethnically or historically
           related [syn: {irridentism}]