Heimosodatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The term in Finnish historiography heimosodat (German: Kriege verwandter Völker) in English literally "Kindred Nations Wars", "Wars for kindred peoples" or "Kinship Wars" for Finnic kinship. It is often erroneously translated as "Tribal Wars". It refers to conflicts in territories inhabited by other Baltic Finns, often in Russia or in borders of Russia, in which some 9000 Finnish volunteers took part between 1918 and 1922 either to assert the Finnish control over the areas inhabitated by related Finnic peoples or to help them to gain their independency. Many of the volunteer soldiers were inspired by the idea of Greater Finland. Some of the conflicts were incursions from Finland and some were local uprisings, where volunteers wanted either to help the people in their fight for independence or to annex the areas to Finland.