Usage examples (9)

• To Damascus, therefore, Lebanon is Syria irredenta.
• The whole earth would have to be reshuffled if claims 2,000 years old to irredenta were suddenly to be allowed.
• France needed to regain its occupied territory, Wilson noted to a British colleague in early 1918; Belgium, its independence; Italy, its ethnic irredenta.
• But it must always be remembered that Western Germany has her eastward irredenta; only in collaboration with Moscow can she repossess land and brethren now in its grip.