Heartland
Heartland is a political term and usually designates the dominant and politically decisive state in an often multi-ethnic group of surrounding different (also partially autonomous ) states, regions or provinces . Conceptually related, sometimes synonymous, the word " motherland " is sometimes used instead of the heartland .
Examples
- Historically, the heartland of the multinational state of the Empire of the Hapsburg Austria, from 1867 the Imperial and Royal Monarchy of Austria-Hungary with the formal equality of Hungary , in the 19th century to 1918 Austria .
- Today's Chinese provinces of Hebei and Henan , as well as the capital Beijing , together formed the heartland of the Chinese Empire
- In the German Empire , founded in 1871, the Kingdom of Prussia was the heartland, in the Kingdom of Prussia the Mark Brandenburg was again the heartland.
- Upper Bavaria is the heartland of Bavaria
- In the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1990, the heartland was the Russian SFSR .
- At the latest after the death of Josip Broz Tito , the heartland of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was Serbia .
- The heartland of both the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth is England .
- The province of Holland is the heartland of the Netherlands .
- The Moscow Empire, or today the region around Moscow, is considered the heartland of Russia .
- The Île-de-France is the heartland of France .
- The Kingdom of Castile has been the heartland of Spain since the unification process at the end of the 15th century .
- The New England states or the former British Thirteen Colonies are considered the heartland of the USA .
- Denmark was the heartland of the Kalmar Union , which existed from 1397 to 1523 .
- The Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont was the heartland of Italy.
Web links
Wiktionary: Kernland - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
