Fatherland is the nation of one's "fathers" or "forefathers." It can be viewed as a nationalist concept, insofar as it relates to nations. (Compare to motherland and homeland.) Eugène Delacroixs Liberty Leading the People, symbolising French nationalism during the July Revolution. ... Motherland is a term that may refer to a mother country, i. ... A homeland is the concept of the territory to which one belongs; usually, the country in which a particular nationality was born. ...

Groups that refer to their native country as a "fatherland" (or rather, translations of this English word in their languages), or, arguably, associate it primarily with paternal concepts include:

• Romans, Italians, Romanians, Spaniards, and Hispanic Latin Americans as Patria. It should be noted that there is a gender change in Spanish and Italian: Madre patria, or motherland is also used.

• the Armenians, as Hayrenik (as in the national anthem Mer Hayrenik, literally meaning Our Fatherland)
• the Brazilians as Pátria.
• the Czechs as otčina
• the Danes as fædreland
• the Estonians as isamaa
• the Finns as isänmaa
• the French, as Patrie (as in the national anthem la Marseillaise)
• the Frisians as heitelân
• the Germans, as das Vaterland (as in the national anthem Das Lied der Deutschen)
• the Greeks as patris, the root word for patriotism.
• the Indians as pitribhūmi (Sanskrit: पितृभूमि), although very, very rarely used, the word for motherland, Matrubhumi, being the exclusively used one.
• the Kazakhs as atameken
• the Lithuanians as tėvynė
• the Dutch, as vaderland
• the Norwegians as fedreland
• the Poles, as Ojczyzna (but there is also macierz, that is Motherland, although it is seldom used)
• the Portuguese as Pátria.
• the Russians, as Otechestvo (отечество) or Otchizna (отчизна), although Rodina, that is Motherland, is more common.
• the Slovenians as Očetnjava, usage is regarded archaic, Domovina (home country) is used instead.
• the Serbs as otadžbina (отаџбина)
• the Spanish as patria
• the Swedes as fäderneslandet, although fosterlandet is more common.
• the Thais as pituphum (ปิตุภูมิ), the word is adapted from Sanskrit
• the Tibetans as pha yul
• the Hungarians as hon or haza

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German Usage

Note that das Vaterland is grammatically neuter, since the final word of the compound (Land) is neuter. Die Heimat (the homeland) is grammatically feminine. Vaterland has been used since the 12th century with the meaning "native country". An adjective vaterländisch has been used since the 18th century, meaning something like patriotic or nationalistic. Mutterland (motherland) means a mother country in contrast to its colonies. Motherland is a term that may refer to a mother country, i. ...

English Usage

Drawing from the Nazis' usage of the term "Vaterland", the direct English translation "fatherland" featured in news reports associated with Nazi Germany and in domestic anti-Nazi propaganda during World War II. As a result, the English word is now associated with the Nazi government of Germany (unlike in Germany itself, where the word means simply "homeland") The word is not used often in post-World War II English unless one wishes to invoke the Nazis, or one is translating literally from a foreign language where that language's equivalent of "fatherland" does not bear Nazi connotations. Soviet Propaganda Poster during the Great Patriotic War. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... A homeland is the concept of the territory to which one belongs; usually, the country in which a particular nationality was born. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Fiction

Fatherland can also refer to:

• Fatherland, an alternative history novel by Robert Harris.
  • Fatherland, a TV movie inspired by Harris' novel.
• Fatherland, a 1986 film directed by Ken Loach.
• For The Fatherland, a complation album by white nationalist duo Prussian Blue.
• Fatherland, a single released in 1993 by German metal band Die Krupps.
• Fatherland, a song that appears on Metropolis, an album released in 2000 by Czech gothic rock band XIII Století.

Fatherland is a bestselling 1992 thriller novel by the English writer and journalist Robert Harris which doubles as a work of alternate history based on the premise of a world in which Nazi Germany was triumphant in World War II, in a similar way to Philip K. Dicks The... Alternate history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Robert Harris is an English TV reporter and author, born in 1957 in the city of Nottingham. ... Fatherland is a bestselling 1992 thriller novel by the English writer and journalist Robert Harris which doubles as a work of alternate history based on the premise of a world in which Nazi Germany was triumphant in World War II, in a similar way to Philip K. Dicks The... A television movie (also TV movie, TV-movie, made-for-TV movie, etc. ... Fatherland is a 1986 movie directed by Ken Loach. ... Ken Loach Kenneth Loach (born June 17, 1936), known as Ken Loach, is an English television and film director, known for his naturalistic style and socialist themes. ... For The Fatherland is the complation debut from white nationalist band Prussian Blue. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Prussian Blue is a white nationalist folk teen duo formed in early 2003 by Lynx Vaughan Gaede and Lamb Lennon Gaede (pronounced gay-dee or in IPA, ), fraternal twin girls born June 30, 1992 (age 14) and brought up in the United States. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Die Krupps is a German electropunk/progressive rock/EBM/crossover/heavy metal band, formed in 1980 by Jürgen Engler and Bernward Malaka in Düsseldorf. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gothic rock (sometimes called goth rock or simply, goth) is a genre of rock music that originated during the late 1970s. ...

See also

• national anthem

A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is evoking and eulogizing the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nations government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people. ...

External links

• Nationalism and Ethnicity - A Theoretical Overview
• The problem of German identity...
• National anthems ("Allons enfants de la Patrie", "Blühe, deutsches Vaterland")
• Origins of the German State, Robert Selig, German Life