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Secession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Secession (derived from the Latin term secessio) is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity. Mainstream political theory largely ignored theories of seces...
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List of active autonomist and secessionist movements - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of currently active autonomist and secessionist movements around the world. Entries on this list meet two criteria: they are active movements with living, active members, and they are...
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Singular; secessionist ... secessionist (comparative more secessionist, superlative most secessionist) ... As well as being applied to people and movements, 'secessionist' is commonly used to describe opinions or beliefs and the form of their expression in books, articles, or speeches.
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Abkhazia (autonomous republic of northwest Georgia) ... Sokhumi (city of western Georgia on the Black Sea) ... Bight of Biafra (body of water, Nigeria/Gabon)
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Some secessionist movements are strongly contested and ultimately resisted, as in the Biafran war of the 1960s; some are resisted but eventually granted, as in the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922; some take place peacefully, as in the separation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1995.
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Definition of secessionist in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of secessionist. Pronunciation of secessionist. Translations of secessionist. secessionist synonyms, secessionist antonyms. Information about secessionist in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... secessionist; Secessionist movements;
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