Meanings of ancestral homeland in English

The Lot is John's ancestral homeland: his family were Huguenots who fled to England.

True, she rather lays on the schmaltz on a visit to her ancestral homeland.

The Sami have long protested against the building of new mines in their ancestral homeland.

Having an ancestral homeland that we may never have been to can be quite isolating.

The presumptive Republican nominee, 70, visits his family's ancestral homeland to showcase his far-flung business empire.

The project was born out of Mr Charteris's desire to return to his ancestral homeland Kiribati for the first time.

The Heudjun Clan would remain the guardians of their ancestral homeland, but they would no longer be the city's dominant clan.

The indigenous groups consider that territory, considered one of the most biologically diverse areas on earth, their ancestral homeland and object to its exploration.

Negotiations for an ancestral homeland for about 3 million Muslims have stalled because of fears among rebels that Manila will shrink the envisioned territory.

Muslim rebels have been fighting for self-determination and an ancestral homeland in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic state for more than 40 years.

They have negotiated alongside for setting up an ancestral homeland for 3 million Muslims that will have a large amount of autonomy but not independence.

And I planned another trip to Scotland, my ancestral homeland, from which I get my wary and unforgiving nature and my excellent sense of doom.

But talks had been stalled since May 2006 over the size and wealth of a proposed ancestral homeland for 3 million Muslims.

Since September 2006, Malaysian-brokered talks have been stalled over the size and wealth of the proposed ancestral homeland for about 3 million Muslims.

Negotiations, brokered by Malaysia since 2001, stalled in September over the size and wealth of a proposed ancestral homeland for 3 million Muslims on Mindanao.

Violence there has forced many to salvage belongings and return to their ancestral homelands.