"fatherland" is a perfectly fine word to use in written English.
It typically refers to the homeland of one's father or ancestors. For example: My father often speaks of his fatherland, a small country in Central Europe.
Something had to give, and even before the clerical scandals broke into the public realm – in the 1990s – this intermingling of faith and fatherland was in decline.
She talks about how her German Jewish father – who had been awarded an Iron Cross, First Class for valour in the service of the fatherland during the first world war – left his native Berlin, thinking Czechoslovakia to be safe: "It wasn't.
The difference is that where Mr Giuliani sees a half-hearted allegiance to the fatherland, some of us see instead evidence of education, intelligence, emotional complexity and a basic moral decency evidence of a man not actually in the grip of myths about his country.
It was a way of detaining all the other shadows he represented: the 8.4m workmen, peasants and common folk who, in pointed steel helmets and flapping greatcoats, had gloriously defended the fatherland as poilus, or foot-soldiers, between 1914 and 1918.
The novel alludes to the mixture of hypocrisy and collusion that characterised that period, and the banal sentimentality of its distractions flying saucers, soap operas, fatherland and fútbol (the infamous 1978 World Cup hosted and won by Argentina).
He signed off with a slogan ("fatherland or death, we shall prevail") coined by his friend, Cuba's Communist president, Fidel Castro.As always with Mr Chávez, the rhetoric may run ahead of the reality.
From a cultural point of view, they are in some ways indistinguishable (Poland's best known poem starts, "Lithuania, O my fatherland").
In Dresden, ordinary Germans have been protesting against "Islamisation" of their fatherland.
One of its member parties, the leftist Fatherland for All, this week announced it would no longer support Mr Chavez, because of his sniping at its candidates for state governorships.
