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Landtag

Landtag \Land"tag`\, n. [G. See Land; Day.] (Prussia.) The diet or legislative body; as, the Landtag of Prussia. See Legislature, below.

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A Landtag (State Diet) is a representative assembly ( parliament) in German-speaking countries with legislative authority and competence over a federated state (Land). Landtage assemblies are the legislative bodies for the individual states of Germany and states of Austria, and have authority to legislate in non-federal matters for the regional area.

Likewise, the Landtag of South Tyrol is the legislature of the autonomous province of South Tyrol in northeast Italy. In the sovereign principality of Liechtenstein the national parliament is called the Landtag of Liechtenstein.

Usage examples of "landtag".

The Landtag, exasperated at his high-handed methods, refused to give him the necessary credits.

At this time the future maker of the German Empire rose in the Landtag and made his bow before the world.