Landsmannschaft

Noun

 * 1) an association or club of people from the same region (or country) living elsewhere
 * 2) a student’s association of such kind (many of which exist in traditional university cities in German-speaking Europe)
 * Das Corps Guestphalia ist eine westfälische Landsmannschaft in Bonn.
 * The Corps Guestphalia is a Westphalian student’s association in Bonn.
 * 1)  an association representing expelled populations from Germany’s former eastern territories
 * die Landsmannschaft der Oberschlesier, die Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft
 * Homeland Association of Upper Silesians, Sudeten German Homeland Association