heart|land

heart|land
heart|land «HAHRT LAND», noun.
1. any area or region that is the center of, or vital to, a country, institution, or industry: »

an agricultural heartland, a Republican heartland. Strategic bombardment of vital elements of an enemy's heartland…was conceived by forward-looking airmen (United States Air Force Report on the Ballistic Missile).

2. an economically and militarily self-sufficient land mass, located centrally in and controlling the world island (the continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa), and relatively invulnerable to attack from the sea: »

It is evident that the heartland is as real a physical fact within the world island as is the world island itself within the ocean... (Sir Halford J. Mackinder). But from this Eurasian heartland came Aryans to populate the West, and across its pink sands marched generations of world conquerors (Time).


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