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.[1][2][3]

Azerbaijan

Lezgistan

Denmark

Faroe Islands

Bornholm

France

Secessionist movements

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^

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

Corsica

French Flanders

Provence

Northern Catalonia/Pyrénées-Orientales

Savoy

Burgundy[32]

  • Proposed: independence for Burgundy
    • 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

Saxony

Lusatia

East Frisia

Italy

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Lombardy

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

Northern Italy

Southern Italy

Sicily

South Tyrol

Savoy

Tuscany

Veneto

Trieste

Aosta Valley

Sardinia

Moldova

Breakaway state

Transnistria

Gagauzia

Montenegro

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

Russia

Secessionist movements:
Adygea and Karachay-Cherkessia[117]

Bashkortostan

Chechnya

Dagestan

Ingushetia

Kaliningrad Oblast[123]

Republic of Kalmykia

Republic of Karelia[126]

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

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

Mari El[132][133]

Mordovia[133]

North Caucasian Federal District

Tatarstan[129]

Rostov Oblast

Udmurtia[133]

Volga Federal District

Kumykia[140]

Astrakhan Oblast[141]

Komi[142]

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

Vepsia

Terek Cossack Host

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

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,[166] or unification with Hungary

Spain

Secessionist movements

Basque Country (autonomous community) and Navarre

Catalonia[169]

Galicia[170]

Valencia

Aragon[173]

Balearic Islands[174]

Andalusia[175]

Asturias[176]

Autonomist movements

Cartagena

León

Province of Granada[178]

El Bierzo[180][181]

Campo de Gibraltar[182]

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

Major movements

England

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Wales

See also: Welsh nationalism and Welsh independence

Minor movements

Cornwall[214]

Northern England[219]

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]

See also

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