Landwehr
German national militias in the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Landwehr (disambiguation).
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.[1]
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