Elsewhere, Mr Trump's foreign policy has served to legitimise, if it does not actively greenlight, irredentism and land-grabs.

But even Jonathan is far way out of the class of Buhari in ethnic irredentism . It took Olusegun Obasanjo a straight ethnic jab out of power to realize what Obafemi Awolowo saw decades ago about him merely queuing up at the bus-stop of people whose orientation is basically provincial.

Words such as 'living space' for the German people, ' irredentism ', 'revanchism' and 'appeasement' entered the political observers' vocabulary as the Nazi military machine swallowed Austria and encroached on the lands of Czechoslovakia and Poland.

Both have suffered the long history of Somali irredentism .

* We are going to achieve the best possible results and are going to remove irredentism and revisionism from textbooks, said Greek Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Markos Bolaris, leader of the Greek team on the joint interdisciplinary committee of experts on historical, archeological and educational matters.

However, a condition for this perspective is for the country to fully and sincerely respect the European legislation, international law and above all the Prespa agreement, which has to be interpreted and implemented in adherence with its content and spirit in a way that leaves not a single trace of irredentism . Hence, activities that don't meet this condition will of course block the European integration progress of the Republic of North Macedonia," Pavlopoulos said.

The letter expressed deep regret over the initiative to film a movie in the occupied Azerbaijani lands, adding that this step supports separatism and irredentism in a region that has already been destroyed as a result of the Armenian military occupation.

Around 20 per cent of Macedonia's population is Albanian speaking and other Macedonian citizens might worry about new expressions of Albanian irredentism . EU membership for all the candidate nations in southeast Europe could contribute to a new geopolitical imagination where ethnic and national borders would matter less in everyday life.

However, after 1978 Siad Barre had to change his international stance and once irredentism had disappeared from the political landscape, Somaliland began its journey towards independence.

If we follow the Greek approach to irredentism in the name "Ilinden Macedonia" there are elements of irredentism because this name includes he region of Lerin and Kostur, says analyst Arsim Zekolli.