A Polish militia, consisting of the nobility and gentry summoned to serve for a limited time.
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释义 | society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > [noun] > militia or citizen army > specific (7) pospolite1697 A Polish militia, consisting of the nobility and gentry summoned to serve for a limited time. landwehr1815 In Germany and some other countries, that part of the organized land forces (corresponding to the militia of Great Britain) of which continuous… armatole1821 In Ottoman-ruled Greece: a member of an armed militia composed of Greek mercenaries, serving from the 15th cent. until Greek independence in the… Reichswehr1876 In Russia in the late 19th cent.: (a name for) a militia which may be conscripted in times of war. Obsolete. rare. Red Guard1906 spec. (now chiefly historical). A member of the paramilitary group of Russian soldiers and Finnish communist sympathizers who seized power in… White Guard1906 A counter-revolutionary force which opposed left-wing insurgents who had seized power in Finland in 1918; a member of this force. Cf. Red Guard, n.… Basij1982 (The name of) a volunteer militia founded in Iran in 1979. |
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