Landtag
Americannoun
noun
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the legislative assembly of each state in present-day Germany and Austria
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the estates of principalities in medieval and modern Germany
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the assembly of numerous states in 19th-century Germany
Etymology
Origin of Landtag
Example Sentences
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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.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2018
Meeting in the Landtag across the street from the Chancellery, the delegates created new government posts for the conservative Volkspartei.
From Time Magazine Archive
What he found sent him rushing to the floor of Hesse's Landtag last week to report.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Vice President Hugo Garnich of the Landtag rang for order, rulers, inkstands and books hurtled.
From Time Magazine Archive
In June, 1880, the three bishops of the Tyrol uttered in the Landtag a fanatical protest against the continuance of the meanwhile established congregations, which the Landtag majority renewed in July, 1883.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
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