A homeland is a place where a cultural, national, or ethnic identity has formed. The definition can also mean simply one's country of birth. 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 question.
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix personifies the French motherland.
Bharat Mata (Mother India) statue accompanied by a lion at Yanam, India
Postcard of an Austrian and a German soldier in the First World War with the text "Shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand, for God, Emperor and Fatherland."
Personification of Russia
The personification of Russia is traditionally feminine and most commonly maternal since medieval times. Most common terms for national personification of Russia are:Mother Russia
A cover of Sentry [ru] magazine, approx. 1932, depicting Russia as a woman in a traditional costume liberated by a warrior in medieval armor with a shield depicting the National russian, trampling the Communist flag.
1914 Russian poster depicting the Triple Entente – Britannia (right) and Marianne (left) in the company of Mother Russia.
"For the Motherland!" on a 1965 Soviet stamp. The literal translation is "Motherland calls!"
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