Baseof.html, block templates and list-types results in empty pages

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I am new to Hugo and static sites and encountered a couple of problems usually due to misunderstandings and after some research I could fix it myself. However I am struggling with an issue seemingly related to this.

I want to customize a specific taxonomy terms page with layouts/taxonomy/country.terms.html. I also have a general layouts/_default/terms.html.

/countries/ renders the general terms.html based site fine, if I temporarily change the filename of country.terms.html to e.g. test.terms.html. However as long as I have country.terms.html I just get an empty page.

And it’s related to this code:

{{ define "title"}} {{ .Title}} {{end}}
{{ define "header"}}
  {{ partial "header" . }} 
{{end}}
{{ define "main" }}
  custom-html-content-here
{{ end }}
{{ define "footer"}}
 {{ partial "footer" . }}
{{end}}

This code works everywhere else including terms.html. I also don’t get an empty page, if I change country.terms.html to e.g.

{{ define "title"}} {{ .Title}} {{end}}
{{ define "header"}}
  {{ partial "header" . }} 
{{end}}
{{ define "main" }}
  custom-html-content-here
{{ end }}
<div>Test 123</div>
{{ define "footer"}}
 {{ partial "footer" . }}
{{end}}

I will see the Test 123. Rendering partials also works, when outside the {{ define }} context. So I can create a barebone custom country terms html with the partials without defines, but then the baseof.htmlfrom the theme is missing.

I read in the documentation about templates, partials, block, themes and so on, but I could not find a solution so far. Any ideas what I do wrong?

Thank you.