At any time of history has a country referred to the country itself as a male?

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I.e.: "mother Russia" , America and "her" allies,

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Germany was famously referred to as "The Fatherland" but that isn't a German only term.

The beautiful monument Altare Della Patria in Italy means Altar of the Fatherland.

Groups with languages that refer to their native country as a "fatherland" include:

the Afrikaners as Vaderland

the Albanians as Atdhe

the Arakaneses as A pha rakhaing pray (အဖရခိုင်ပြည်)

the Belarusians as Baćkaŭščyna (Бацькаўшчына)

the Bulgarians as Tatkovina (Татковина) and Otechestvo (Отечество)

the Danes as fædreland

the Dutch, as vaderland

the Estonians as isamaa (as in the national anthem Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm)

the Finns as isänmaa

the Frisians as heitelân

the Georgians as Samshoblo (სამშობლო - "[land] of parents") or Mamuli (მამული)

the Germans, as Vaterland (as in the national anthem Das Lied der Deutschen)

the Ancient Greeks as patris the Greeks as "patrida"

the Icelanders as föðurland literally meaning "land of the father"

the Iranians as mihan (میهن) or vatan (وطن - Arabic loanword)

the Irish as Athartha

the Kazakhs as atameken

the Latvians as tēvzeme

the Liechtensteiners as Vaterland

the Nigerians as fatherland

the Norwegians as fedreland

the Oromo as Biyya Abaa

the Pakistanis as Vatan

the Poles as ziemia ojców literally meaning "land of fathers", somethimes used in the phrase ziemia ojców naszych literally meaning "land of our fathers"

the Portuguese as Pátria

the Serbs as otadžbina (отаџбина) " the Silesians as " Fatherland "

the Somali as Dhulka Abaa, land of the father

the Swedes as Fädernesland

the Swiss as Vaterland (as in the national anthem Swiss Psalm)

the Thais as pituphum (ปิตุภูมิ), the word is adapted from Sanskrit

the Tibetans as pha yul (ཕ་ཡུལ་)

the Welsh as the land of my fathers (Y Wlad Fy Nhadau)