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
A commissioner, probably British, would oversee the Saar on behalf of WEU, but an elected Landtag of Saarlanders would continue to run Saar affairs.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Vice President Hugo Garnich of the Landtag rang for order, rulers, inkstands and books hurtled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meeting in the Landtag across the street from the Chancellery, the delegates created new government posts for the conservative Volkspartei.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the Reichstag of Northern Germany the Catholics were not grouped together, and at the Prussian Landtag they formed only an inconsiderable minority.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
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