List of active separatist movements in Europe

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This is a list of currently active separatist movements in Europe. Separatism often refers to full political secession.[1][2][3]

Supporters of Catalan independence in Barcelona in October 2019
Scottish independence supporters in Glasgow. Scotland held an independence referendum on 18 September 2014

Azerbaijan

Lezgistan

Denmark

Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands

Bornholm

France

Secessionist movements
Location of the Basque Country

French Basque Country/ Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Etat Pied-Noir

  • Ethnic group: Pieds-Noirs
  • Political party: Etat Pied-Noir[12][13][14][15]
  • Status: Active (Established in 2016)
  • Proposed state: The federation of the two shores^
Location of Brittany

Historic Brittany, comprising Brittany (administrative region) and Loire-Atlantique

Location of Corsica

Corsica

The Dutch-language Taalgebied (Sprachraum), including northern French Flanders

French Flanders

Location of Provence

Provence

Catalonia Northern Catalonia/Pyrénées-Orientales

Savoy

Burgundy[32]

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

Georgia

Georgian administrative divisions are outlined in black. Occupied territories of Georgia are shown in pink.

Territory of the former Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Territory of the former South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast

Javakheti

Adjara[citation needed]

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

Germany

Saxony

Lusatia

Lusatia

East Frisia

Italy

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Lombardy

Lombardy

Proposed nation of Padania, light blue includes the regions of Tuscany, Umbria and Marche

Northern Italy

Southern Italy

Southern Italy

Sicily

Sicily

South Tyrol

South Tyrol

Savoy

Tuscany

Tuscany

Veneto

Veneto

Free Territory of Trieste, which legally ceased to exist in 1977 after the Treaty of Osimo

Trieste

Aosta Valley

Aosta Valley

Sardinia

Sardinia

Moldova

Transnistria
Breakaway state

Transnistria

Gagauzia

Montenegro

Bosniak_National_Flag_in_Sandzak Sandzak

  • Ethnic group: Bosniak
    • Proposed: Greater Autonomy
      • Political party: Free Sandzaz[95]

Netherlands

Location of Friesland

Frisia

Portugal

Azores[98]

Romania

Transylvania and Banat[100]

Location of Transylvania (left) and Banat (right)

Székely Land

The historical Székely seats on the map of present-day Romania

Russia

Secessionist movements:
Adygea and Karachay-Cherkessia[117]

Bashkortostan

Bashkortostan

Chechnya

Dagestan

Ingushetia

Kaliningrad Oblast[123]

Kalmykia

Republic of Kalmykia

Republic of Karelia

Republic of Karelia[126]

Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar Krai[127]

  • People: Cossacks,[128] Russians
    • Proposed state or autonomous area: Kuban
        • Advocacy movements: Community of the Don-Kuban-Terek Citizens, Klin-Yar, Kuban Cossack Host, Kuban Cossacks of the Kuban Host Autonomy Movement, Kuban Cossack Youth, New Kuban Cossack Association, Southern Regional Resource Center, Union of Cossack Republics of Southern Russia
          • Militant organization: Kuban Cossack Army
          • Political parties: Free Cossack Movement, Lapin, Movement for the Federalizations of Kuban, Union of the Cossack Hosts of Russia, Union of the Cossack Hosts of Russia and Abroad, Committee for the Liberation of the Kuban
          • Political organizations: Cossack Congress, Cossacks of the Kuban Rada
Leningrad Oblast

Kingiseppsky, Lomonosovsky, Volosovsky & Sosnovy Bor districts of Leningrad Oblast[129]

Mari El[132][133]

Mordovia[133]

North Caucasian Federal District

Tatarstan[129]

Rostov Oblast

Rostov Oblast

Udmurtia[133]

Volga Federal District

Flag_of_Kumyks Kumykia[140]

Astrakhan Oblast[141]

Komi[142]

Flag_of_Seversk Severia[143]

  • Ethnic group: Russians
    • Proposed: independence or autonomy for Severia
    • Advocacy group: Seversky Region Movement

Chuvashia[144]

Kursk Oblast[145]

Smolensk Oblast[146]

  • Ethnic group: Russians
    • Proposed: independence or autonomy for Smolensk Oblast
    • Advocacy group: Smolensk Republican Center

Pskov Oblast[147]

North Ossetia[citation needed]

Flag_of_Vepsia Vepsia[citation needed]

Flag_of_Terek_Cossacks Terek Cossack Host[citation needed]

Zalessian Rus Central Black Earth Region

Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug[149]

Karachay-Cherkessia

Russian-occupied Ukraine

Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol

Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic (Annexed by Russia in 2022)

Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast, Russian-occupied Kharkiv Oblast,[154][155][156]

Serbia

Province of Vojvodina (marked in red)
Autonomist movements

Vojvodina Vojvodina

Sandžak

Preševo Valley

Slovakia

Linguistic makeup of Slovakia, according to Census 2011
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,[166] or unification with Hungary

Spain

Regions in Spain with autonomist or separatist movements
proposed extent of the Catalan country
Secessionist movements

Basque Country (autonomous community) Basque Country (autonomous community) and Navarre

Catalonia[169]

Galicia (Spain) Galicia[170]

Valencian Community Valencia

Aragon[173]

Balearic Islands[174]

Andalusia[175]

Asturias[176]

Autonomist movements

Cartagena[citation needed]

León

Granada_flag Province of Granada[178]

El Bierzo[180][181]

Bandera_de_la_Mancomunidad_del_Campo_de_Gibraltar Campo de Gibraltar[182]

Ukraine

Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
Share of ethnic Russians in Ukraine

Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol

Donetsk Oblast, Luhansk Oblast

Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast, Russian-occupied Kharkiv Oblast[183]

Carpathian Ruthenia[185][186][187][188]

United Kingdom

Countries of the United Kingdom
Map of current local administrative units in the United Kingdom
Major movements

England

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Wales

See also: Welsh nationalism and Welsh independence

Minor movements

Cornwall[214]

Cornwall

Northern England[219]

Northern England

London[225]

Fife[230]

  • Proposed state: Fife
    • Political Party: Fife National Party

Norfolk[231]

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

Gibraltar

Isle of Man[236]

The Kingdom of the Isles about the year 1100
Isle of Man

See also

References

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