Motherland
The mother country is the country to which an area is dependent or belonging to in the case of spatial separation.
Conceptually related, sometimes synonymous, the word " heartland " is sometimes used instead of motherland . The term " fatherland ", however, is not an antonym to the term "motherland".
Examples
- The United Kingdom is the motherland of its overseas territory , the Falkland Islands .
- Denmark is the motherland of the Faroe Islands and Greenland .
- Russia is the motherland of its exclave " Kaliningrad Oblast ".
- Turkey is officially the motherland of the Turks; it means about the same as " fatherland ", as in the Indian area in India and Sri Lanka .
In France , the meaning of the term motherland is different from a constitutional point of view than it is geographically . While French Guiana , Réunion , Martinique and Guadeloupe as so-called " départements d'outre-mer (DOM) " are constitutionally integral parts of the French Republic and thus the entire state, they belong geographically, as well as the so-called COM , New Caledonia and the South - and Antarctic regions (TAAF) , not to the " metropolis ". This is the name commonly used in France for the metropolitan area.
The term "motherland / madre patria" is particularly common in Spanish America as a term for Spain. In the period from the arrival of the Spaniards in America to the first beginnings of colonialism, “madre patria” was part of the culture of the Iberian Peninsula. Despite the independence of the peoples of America and the drastic changes from the Middle Ages to modern society, the term is still used in Latin America in relation to Spain.
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- ↑ "Faroe Islands - expensive self-employment" , Der Spiegel , 14/2001, April 2, 2001
- ↑ "Mood of optimism in Greenland" ( Memento from July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Tagesschau , November 25, 2008