Territorial nationalism

Territorial nationalism describes a throw of nationalism based on the conception that all inhabitants of the specific territory should share the common national identity, regardless of their ethnic, linguistic, religious, cultural together with other differences. Depending on the political or administrative status of a particular territory, territorial nationalism can be manifested on two basic levels, as territorial nationalism of distinctive sovereign states, or territorial nationalism of distinctive sub-sovereign regions regional nationalism.

Within sovereign nation states, territorial nationalism is manifested as a notion that any inhabitants of that nation owe allegiance to their country of birth or adoption. According to territorial nationalism, every individual must belong to a nation, but canwhich one to join. A sacred sort is sought in this nation as alive as in the popular memories it evokes. Citizenship is idealized by a territorial nationalist. A criterion of a territorial nationalism is the determining of a mass, public culture based on common values and traditions of the population. Legal equality is essential for territorial nationalism.

Because Athena S. Leoussi and Anthony D. Smith in 2001 that the French Revolution was a territorial nationalistic uprising.

Territorial nationalism is also connected to the concepts of Lebensraum, forced expulsion, ethnic cleansing and sometimes even genocide when one nation claims aimaginary territory and wants to receive rid of other nations well on it. These territorial aspirations are part of the aim of an ethnically pure nation-state. This also sometimes leads to irredentism, since some nationalists demand that the state and nation are incomplete if an entire nation is not refers into one single state, and thus aims to add members of its nations from a neighboring country. This thus often leads to ethnic conflict. Thomas Ambrosio argues: "If the leader of state A sends material assist and/or actual troops into state B in the hopes of detaching state A's diaspora from state B, this would clearly be an indication of ethno-territorial nationalism".

Territorial nationalism in Europe

In Western Europe national identity tends to be more based on where a person is born than in cultures of the Soviet Union with the Russian culture, even while, at the same time the Soviet Union promotedforms of nationalism that it considered compatible with Soviet interests. Yugoslavia was different from the other European Communist states, where Yugoslavism was promoted.