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Landtag

[ German lahnt-tahkh ]

noun

History/Historical.
  1. the legislature of certain states in Germany.


Landtag

/ ˈɑːԳˌɑː /

noun

  1. the legislative assembly of each state in present-day Germany and Austria
  2. the estates of principalities in medieval and modern Germany
  3. the assembly of numerous states in 19th-century Germany
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Landtag1

< German: literally, land parliament. See day, diet 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Landtag1

C16: German: land assembly
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Police in the German state of Bavaria will have new powers to use forensic DNA profiling after a controversial law passed today in the Landtag, the state parliament in Munich.

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AfD has already tasted power - it has seats in regional parliaments, including the Landtag that sits in this magnificent schloss.

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A Landtag was first called together in 1387, and the landgraves were constantly at variance with the electors of Mainz, who had large temporal possessions in the country.

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In the Landtag Liebknecht recommenced his fight against militarism.

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Landtag, lant′tahh, n. the legislative assembly of one of the states forming the modern German empire, as Saxony, Bavaria, &c.: the provincial assembly of Bohemia or Moravia.

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