Landwehr
Sign in to saveLandwehr (), or Landeswehr, is a German language term used in referring to certain national armies, or militias found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. In different context it refers to large-scale, low-strength fortifications. In German, the word means "defence of the country"; but the term as applied to an insurrectional militia is very ancient, and lantveri are mentioned in Baluzii Capitularia, as quoted in Henry Hallam's Middle Ages, i. 262, 10th edition.
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- Austria-Hungary
- Austrian ''Landwehr''
- Hungarian Landwehr
- Prussia
- Nazi Germany
- Switzerland
- Baltic ''Landeswehr''
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
Landwehr (), or Landeswehr, is a German language term used in referring to certain national armies, or militias found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. In different context it refers to large-scale, low-strength fortifications. In German, the word means "defence of the country"; but the term as applied to an insurrectional militia is very ancient, and lantveri are mentioned in Baluzii Capitularia, as quoted in Henry Hallam's Middle Ages, i. 262, 10th edition.
==Austria-Hungary== ===Austrian Landwehr===
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