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Reunification is the political unification of separate political entities which had previously been united.

Historical reunifications

• Bulgarian unification in 1885, after the 1396 Ottoman conquest.
• Chinese reunification (1928) or "Northeast Flag Replacement" proclaimed victory of Guangzhou/Nanjing government over Beiyang government after the 1912 division.
• German reunification in 1990, divided since the 1949 division decided at the Potsdam Conference in August 1945.
  • German unification in 1866-71, divided since 1806 after the division of Holy Roman Empire.
  • Anschluss (1938 Nazi reunification of "Lesser Germany" and Austria into "Greater Germany")
• Italian unification 1815-71, divided since the 6th century Ostrogoths.
• Polish reunification in 1918-22, divided since 24 October 1795.
• Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War in 1976, divided since 1954.
• Yemenite reunification in 1990, divided since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918.
• Denmark and the northern part of South Jutland in 1920. See Schleswig Plebiscites.

Reunification movements

At various times various nationalist and irredentist movements promoted ideas of restoration or unification in various places.

Reunification	Divided since	Areas affected (at maximum extent)
Albanian reunification	1943	Albania  Greece (Albanian lands)  Kosovo  Macedonia (Albanian lands)  Montenegro (Albanian lands)  Serbia (Albanian lands)
Anglo-Irish reunification	1922	Ireland  United Kingdom
Armenian reunification	Medieval period	Armenia  Azerbaijan  Georgia  Iran  Turkey
Bulgarian reunification	1913	Bulgaria  Macedonia (Slavic)
Chinese reunification	1949	People's Republic of China  Republic of China
Colombian reunification	1831	Colombia  Ecuador  Panama  Venezuela
Congolese unification	Never united	Democratic Republic of the Congo  Republic of the Congo
Cypriot reunification	1974	Cyprus  Northern Cyprus
Dutch reunification		Belgium (Flanders)  Netherlands
Finnish reunification	1940-44	Finland  Russia (Karelia)
German and Austrian reunification	1945	Germany  Austria  Poland (Silesia, Pommerania)  Russia (East Prussia)  France (Alsace-Lorraine)
Greek reunification	Medieval period	Greece  Cyprus  Turkey (Eastern Thrace, Asia Minor, Pontus)  Bulgaria (Eastern Rumelia)  Albania (Northern Epirus)  Macedonia (Monastiri area)
Hungarian reunification	1944	Croatia  Hungary  Romania (Transylvania)  Serbia (Vojvodina)  Slovakia  Ukraine (Zakarpattia Oblast)
Indochinese reunification [1]	1954	Cambodia  Laos  Vietnam
Indo-Pakistani reunification	1947	Bangladesh  Burma  Bhutan  India  Nepal  Pakistan
Iranian reunification	1800s	Afghanistan  Armenia  Azerbaijan  Iran  Tajikistan  Turkmenistan  Uzbekistan
Irish reunification	1920-22	Ireland  United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
Korean reunification	1945	North Korea  South Korea
Macedonian Reunification	1913	Bulgaria (Blagoevgrad)  Greece (Aegean Macedonia)  Macedonia
Mongolian reunification	Medieval period	People's Republic of China (Inner Mongolia)  Mongolia
Netherlandish reunification	1839	Belgium  France (Nord-Pas de Calais)  Luxembourg  Netherlands
Polish reunification	1939	Lithuania (Vilnius County)  Belarus  Poland  Ukraine
Portuguese reunification	1170-1801	Portugal  Spain (Galicia, Olivenza)
Romanian reunification	1944	Moldova  Romania
Russian reunification	1991	Belarus  Russia
Serbian reunification	1992	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Croatia (Serbian Krajina)  Kosovo  Macedonia  Montenegro  Serbia
Somali unification	Never united	Djibouti  Ethiopia (Ogaden)  Kenya  Somalia
Transcaucasian reunification	1918-1936	Armenia  Azerbaijan  Georgia
Turkish reunification	1922	see Ottoman Empire and Turkic languages
Yugoslavian reunification	1992	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Croatia  Kosovo  Macedonia  Montenegro  Serbia  Slovenia

See also

• Unification (disambiguation)
• political union
• territorial integrity

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