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The definition can also mean simply one's country of birth. [1] When used as a proper noun , the Homeland, as well as its equivalents in other languages, often has ethnic nationalist connotations. A homeland may also be referred to as a fatherland , a motherland , or a mother country , depending on the culture and language of the nationality in ...
In reviewing S. P. B. Mais's The Home Counties (Batsford The Face of Britain series, 1942), Norah Richardson noted that "the home counties" was a term in constant use but hard to define, but that Mais's definition of "the five counties around London County – Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent and Surrey" could not be improved upon. [6]
A country adjective describes something as being from that country, for example, "Italian cuisine" is "cuisine of Italy". A country demonym denotes the people or the inhabitants of or from there; for example, "Germans" are people of or from Germany. Demonyms are given in plural forms.
Map of the Home Nations. Home Nations (Welsh: Cenhedloedd Cartref) is a collective term in sport, [1] usually referring to England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. When a sport is governed by a council representing the island of Ireland, such as the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), the term can refer to the nations of the constituent countries on the island of Great Britain (England ...
Home rule is the government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens. [1] It is thus the power of a part (administrative division) of a state or an external dependent country to exercise such of the state's powers of governance within its own administrative area that have been decentralized to it by the central government.
Green Day have taken lyrical aim at Elon Musk while performing in his home country of South Africa.. The band’s frontman Billie Joe Armstrong reportedly switched a line in their 2004 hit ...
Beauty is said to be in the eye of the beholder, but do different countries, with their different cultural values, have different ideas of what is beautiful? One recent college graduate wanted to ...
Many migrants remain determined to reach the U.S. through more dangerous means, riding freight trains, hiring smugglers, and dodging authorities.