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List of active separatist movements in Europe

This is a list of currently active separatist movements in Europe. Separatism often refers to full political secession.

Azerbaijan

Lezgistan

Denmark

Bornholm

France

Secessionist movements

French Basque Country/ Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Etat Pied-Noir

* Ethnic group: Pieds-Noirs
* Political party: Etat Pied-Noir
* Status: Active (Established in 2016)
* Proposed state: The federation of the two shores

Historic Brittany, comprising Brittany (administrative region) and

French Flanders

Northern Catalonia/Pyrénées-Orientales

Savoy

  • Proposed: independence for
  • Advocacy group: le Mouvement de Libération de la Bourgogne

Georgia

Territory of the former Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Territory of the former South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast

Javakheti

Adjara

  • Ethnic group: Adjarians
  • Proposed: Autonomy for Adjara
  • Political Party: Adjara Party

Germany

Italy

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Lombardy

Northern Italy

Southern Italy

Moldova

Breakaway state

Montenegro

Sandzak

  • Ethnic group: Bosniak
  • Proposed: Greater Autonomy
  • Political party: Free Sandzaz

Netherlands

Frisia

Portugal

Romania

Transylvania and Banat

Székely Land

Russia

Secessionist movements:<br> Adygea and Karachay-Cherkessia

Bashkortostan

Dagestan

Ingushetia

Kaliningrad Oblast

Republic of Kalmykia

Krasnodar Krai

Kingiseppsky, Lomonosovsky, Volosovsky & Sosnovy Bor districts of Leningrad Oblast

Mari El

Mordovia

North Caucasian Federal District

Tatarstan

Rostov Oblast

Udmurtia

Volga Federal District

Kumykia

Astrakhan Oblast

Severia

  • Ethnic group: Russians
  • Proposed: independence or autonomy for Severia
  • Advocacy group: Seversky Region Movement
  • Ethnic group: Chuvash people
  • Proposed: independence for
  • Advocacy group: Irĕklĕ Chăvash En
  • Ethnic group: Russians
  • Proposed: independence or autonomy for
  • Ethnic group: Russians
  • Proposed: independence or autonomy for
  • Advocacy group: Smolensk Republican Center
  • Ethnic group: Russians
  • Proposed: independence or autonomy for
  • People: Ossetians
  • Proposed: independence for and unification with to form United Ossetia

Vepsia

Terek Cossack Host

Zalessian Rus Central Black Earth Region

Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug

Russian-occupied Ukraine

and

, (Annexed by Russia in 2022)

Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast, Russian-occupied Kharkiv Oblast,

Serbia

Autonomist movements

Vojvodina

Sandžak

Preševo Valley

Slovakia

Autonomist movements

Southern Slovakia:

  • People: Hungarians
  • Proposed autonomous area: Territorial autonomy for the compact Hungarian ethnic block and cultural autonomy for the regions of Hungarian presence, or unification with
  • Political parties (autonomist): Party of the Hungarian Community, In 2010, the party renewed their demand for autonomy.

Spain

Secessionist movements

Basque Country (autonomous community) and

Galicia

Valencia

Autonomist movements

Cartagena

León

Province of Granada

Campo de Gibraltar

Ukraine

and

,

Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast, Russian-occupied Kharkiv Oblast

Carpathian Ruthenia

United Kingdom

Major movements

Northern Ireland

See also: Welsh nationalism and Welsh independence

Minor movements

Northern England

London

  • People: Londoners
  • Proposed state: London
  • Political party: Londonpendence Party

Fife

  • Proposed state: Fife
  • Political Party: Fife National Party
  • Proposed state:
  • Political Party: Norfolk Independence Party
Separatist movements of dependent territories

See also

References

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