Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The legislative assembly of many German-speaking polities, including most German states.
- noun A diet or assembly in some German states in the 19th century.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Germany, the legislature of a country; a territorial diet; now, specifically, one of the parliaments of the countries constituting the German empire, as Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, etc., and of some of the crownlands of Austria-Hungary, as Moravia and Bohemia. See
Reichstag .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Prussia.) The diet or legislative body. See
legislature , below.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
representative assembly orparliament inGerman -speakingcountries , with somelegislative authority.
Etymologies
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VISUAL BASIC BASICS: Prank Virus, By Pierre-Luc P. Tags: Politics * Tag, the German word for "day", is used in names of German legislative bodies, such as Landtag, Reichstag and Bundestag, because the earliest German legislative bodies met for a single day.
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VISUAL BASIC BASICS: Prank Virus, By Pierre-Luc P. Tags: Politics * Tag, the German word for "day", is used in names of German legislative bodies, such as Landtag, Reichstag and Bundestag, because the earliest German legislative bodies met for a single day.
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If we look at Germany, we even see a democratisation of NAZIsm (NPD getting elected into the Landtag), which at the same time produces a party with less affection to violence.
Estonian Symbolism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In 1865, Eduard made his first foray into politics, winning a seat in the Landtag, the Prussian lower house of government.
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Landtag and its ministry do not encourage whistle-blowing apparently, NO ONE in any ministry is willing to speak up and call a bad set of criteria recognized by some judge a few years back a piece of illegal practice in German burocratic machinery.
OpEdNews - Diary: Dear Petitions Office Hessen Landtag, 2009
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On Monday morning, a mass meeting was called in the university assembly hall and from there thousands set off to the Landtag where the lower Austrian Parliament was in session.
Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009
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Ich musste bis jetzt selbst einen Petition be idem Landtag im Juli vorliegen.
OpEdNews - Diary: German Visa Office Use Chastity Strategy to Stop Births of Non Germans 2009
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With Fischhof at the front, the doors of the Landtag were forced open and the crowd rolled into the debating chamber.
Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009
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Frankenthal served as a Social Democratic municipal deputy representing the Tiergarten district in the Berlin City Council from 1925 to 1931 and was elected to the Prussian Landtag (provincial diet) in 1930.
K��te Frankenthal. 2009
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Unsere Erwählten: Sozialdemokratischen Frauen im Deutschen Reichstag und im Preussischen Landtag 1919 bis 1933. 2 vols.
K��te Frankenthal. 2009
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