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German
Etymology
Kultur (“culture”) + Land (“land, country”)
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- Hyphenation: Kul‧tur‧land
Noun
Kulturland n (strong, genitive Kulturlandes or Kulturlands, plural Kulturländer)
- (singular only) cultivable land, cultivated land
- Synonym: Kulturboden
- Antonym: Ödland
in (fruchtbares) Kulturland verwandeln; durch Trockenlegung von Sümpfen neues Kulturland schaffen- turn into a (fertile) cultivated land; to create new cultivable land by draining swamps
2010, Hansjörg Küster, Geschichte der Landschaft in Mitteleuropa: Von der Eiszeit bis zur Gegenwart, 4th, completely revised and updated edition, München: C.H. Beck, →ISBN, page 335:Mit getrockneten Rückständen aus Absetzteichen der Zuckerfabriken ließen sich Ödländer in Kulturland verwandeln.- With dried residues from settling ponds of the sugar factories, badlands could be turned into cultivable/cultivated land.
- land with a deep cultural heritage and a rich history of cultural development, country with a high degree of civilization
1955 March 3, Marianne Regensburger, “Ein besonderes Erinnerungsbuch”, in DIE ZEIT, number 09, page 6:Im ersten Teil des Begleittextes wird von der Einheit der nordafrikanischen Landschaften und der unafrikanischen Besonderheit des Raumes ausgehend in knapper Zusammenfassung die Geschichte dieses uralten mittelmeerischen Kulturlandes erzählt, in dem Phönizier, Griechen, Römer und das frühe Christentum ihre Spuren hinterlassen haben und in dem heute der Islam die bindende Kraft ist, die die heterogene Welt der vielen Stämme zusammenhält und ihm die Einheit gibt.- In the first part of the accompanying text, based on the unity of the North African landscapes and the un-African peculiarity of the area, the history of this ancient Mediterranean culturally rich land is told in a concise summary, in which Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and early Christianity left their traces and in which today Islam is the binding force that holds the heterogeneous world of the many tribes together and gives it unity.
2002, Karl Schlögel, Petersburg: Das Laboratorium der Moderne 1909–1921, München/Wien: Carl Hanser Verlag, →ISBN, page 377:Der Krieg hat zugleich die Rückständigkeit im Verhältnis zu anderen »Kulturländern« offenbart.- The war also revealed backwardness in relation to other “high civilized countries”.
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