WORLD HISTORY

NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who were the ‘Junkers’?
A
Large Landowners
B
Farmers
C
Soldiers
D
Rich People
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Junkers (/ˈjʊŋkər/ YUUNG-kər; German: [ˈjʊŋkɐ]) were members of the landed nobility in Prussia. They owned great estates that were maintained and worked by peasants with few rights. These estates often lay in the countryside outside of major cities or towns.

Detailed explanation-2: -Junker, (German: “country squire”), member of the landowning aristocracy of Prussia and eastern Germany, which, under the German Empire (1871–1918) and the Weimar Republic (1919–33), exercised substantial political power.

Detailed explanation-3: -Land owners were called as junkers in Prussia.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Junkers. Q. In Tamil region, large landowners were known as . Q.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Russian substantive Yunker is derived from the German noun Junker, where it means “young lord". Yunker (ru: ) was the rank for a volunteer at military service (ru: , volnoopredelyayushchiycya, de: One-year volunteer) in the Imperial Russian Army in 19th and 20th centuries.

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