Editing Italian irredentism (section)

=== Post-World War II ===
[[File:Italians leave Pola.jpg|thumb|[[Istrian Italians]] leave [[Pula|Pola]] in 1947 during the [[Istrian-Dalmatian exodus]].]]
[[File:Autonomous Regions of Italy.svg|thumb|right|The 5 autonomous [[regions of Italy]] in red and the 15 ordinary regions in grey]]

Under the [[Treaty of Peace with Italy, 1947]], [[Istria]], [[Kvarner Gulf|Kvarner]], most of the [[Julian March]] as well as the [[Dalmatia]]n city of [[Zadar|Zara]] was annexed by [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] causing the [[Istrian-Dalmatian exodus]], which led to the emigration of between 230,000 and 350,000 of local ethnic [[Italians]] ([[Istrian Italians]] and [[Dalmatian Italians]]), the others being ethnic Slovenians, ethnic Croatians, and ethnic [[Istro-Romanians]], choosing to maintain Italian citizenship.<ref>{{cite web |first=Benedetta |last=Tobagi |url=http://www.treccani.it/scuola/lezioni/storia/la_repubblica_italiana.html |title=La Repubblica italiana &#124; Treccani, il portale del sapere |publisher=Treccani.it |access-date=28 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305001726/http://www.treccani.it/scuola/lezioni/storia/la_repubblica_italiana.html |archive-date=5 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The Istrian-Dalmatian exodus started in 1943 and ended completely only in 1960. According to the census organized in [[Croatia]] in 2001 and that organized in [[Slovenia]] in 2002, the Italians who remained in the former [[Yugoslavia]] amounted to 21,894 people (2,258 in Slovenia and 19,636 in Croatia).<ref name="dzs">{{Cite web|url=http://www.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/Census2001/Popis/E01_02_02/E01_02_02.html|title=Državni Zavod za Statistiku|language=hr|access-date=10 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="stat">{{cite web|url=http://www.stat.si/Popis2002/en/rezultati/rezultati_red.asp?ter=SLO&st=7|title=Popis 2002|access-date=10 June 2017}}</ref>

After World War II, Italian irredentism disappeared along with the defeated Fascists and the Monarchy of the [[House of Savoy]]. After the Treaty of Paris (1947) and the [[Treaty of Osimo]] (1975), all territorial claims were abandoned by the [[Italian Republic]] (see [[Foreign relations of Italy]]). The Italian irredentist movement thus vanished from Italian politics. Today, Italy, [[France]], [[Malta]], [[Greece]], [[Croatia]] and [[Slovenia]] are all members of the [[European Union]], while [[Montenegro]] and [[Albania]] are candidates for accession. The 1947 [[Constitution of Italy]] established five autonomous regions ([[Sardinia]], [[Friuli-Venezia Giulia]], [[Sicily]], [[Aosta Valley]] and [[Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol]]), in recognition of their cultural and linguistic distinctiveness.

In the early 1990s, the [[breakup of Yugoslavia]] caused nationalistic sentiments to re-emerge in these areas; worthy of note in this regard are the demonstrations in [[Trieste]] on 6 October 1991 "for a new Italian irredentism". These were promoted by the [[Italian Social Movement]] and inspired by rumours about negotiations for the passage through Trieste of the Yugoslav troops expelled from [[Slovenia]] during the [[Ten-Day War]] which saw the participation of thousands of people at the political rally in Piazza della Borsa followed by a long procession through the streets of the city, and on 8 November 1992, again in Trieste.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trieste si ribella il MSI è pronto a 'sconfinare'|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1992/11/08/trieste-si-ribella-il-msi-pronto.html|publisher=La Repubblica|date= 8 November 1992|author=Roberto Bianchin|access-date=31 May 2022}}</ref>

The same Italian Social Movement and [[National Alliance (Italy)|National Alliance]] asked for the review of the peace treaties signed by Italy after World War II, especially with regard to Zone B of the former [[Free Territory of Trieste]], given that the qualification of Slovenia and [[Croatia]] as heirs of Yugoslavia was not a given and that the division of [[Istria]] between Slovenia and Croatia contradicted the clauses of the peace treaties which guaranteed the unity of the surviving Italian component in Istria ([[Istrian Italians]]), assigned to Yugoslavia after World War II, proposing the creation of an Istrian Euro-region also including the city of [[Rijeka]].<ref>[http://www.radioradicale.it/scheda/91686/la-revisione-del-trattato-di-osimo La revisione del Trattato di Osimo]</ref> These claims, which also concerned [[Dalmatia]] (including islands such as [[Pag (island)|Pag]], [[Ugljan]], [[Vis (island)|Vis]], [[Lastovo]], [[Hvar]], [[Korčula]] and [[Mljet]]) and the coast with the cities of [[Zadar]], [[Šibenik]], [[Trogir]] and [[Split, Croatia|Split]], remained completely unheeded by all the [[Italian government]]s that followed one another in that period.<ref>
[https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1994/04/27/parola-ordine-patria.html Parola d'ordine: patria]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=A 40 anni dal trattato di Osimo un convegno della Fondazione An|date=26 May 2015 |url=https://www.secoloditalia.it/2015/05/40-anni-dal-trattato-osimo-convegno-fondazione-an/|access-date=7 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Il revanscismo italiano è poca cosa, ma i Balcani non lo sanno| date=29 November 2019 |url=https://www.limesonline.com/italia-ex-jugoslavia-trattato-di-osimo/115417?prv=true|access-date=7 September 2023}}</ref>