Crossword-Solution: IRREDENTA 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The electioneering agents forthwith found they needed a sensational popular platform, and this platform has ended by becoming something like the "Irredenta" movement in Italy, a claim for national rights over the national soil.

The only part of them that could possibly procure allied sympathy was that which would recover the genuine Italia Irredenta.

The Italian Government pressed its advantage, and demanded not only the whole of Italia irredenta, that unredeemed territory peopled by Italians in the Trentino and across the Adriatic, which had been left under Hapsburg dominion after the wars of Italian liberation, but practically the whole north-eastern coasts of the Adriatic which were inhabited by a predominantly Slav population.

She had no quarrel with Bulgaria on the score of national rights; indeed, it was rather she who ruled over Bulgars in the Dobrudja, and a Rumanian war could only be defended in principle as a crusade to redeem the Rumania irredenta north of the Carpathians.

Gayda's _La crisi di un impero_ (2d ed., 1915), English ed., _Modern Austria_ (New York, 1915) is an unusually able work by an Italian who sees clearly on every question except that of Italia Irredenta.