Diet (assembly) - Historic Uses

Historic Uses

In this sense, it commonly refers to the Imperial Diet assemblies of the Holy Roman Empire:

• Imperial Diet
• Diet of Augsburg
• Diet of Nuremberg
• Diet of Regensburg
• Diet of Speyer
• Diet of Worms

After the Second Peace of Thorn of 1466, a German language Prussian diet Landtag was held in the lands of Royal Prussia, a province of Poland in personal union with the King of Poland.

The Croatian word for a legislative assembly is sabor (from the verb sabrati se, "to assemble"); in historic contexts it is often translated with "diet" in English, as in "the Diet of Dalmatia" (Dalmatinski sabor), "the Croatian Diet" (Hrvatski sabor), or "the Hungarian-Croatian Diet" (Ugarsko-hrvatski sabor).

The Hungarian Diet, customarily called together every three years in Pozsony, was also called "Diéta" in the Habsburg Empire before the 1848 revolution.

The Riksdag of the Estates was the diet of the four estates of Sweden, from the 15th century until 1866. The Diet of Finland was the successor to the Riksdag of the Estates in the Grand Duchy of Finland, from 1809 to 1906.

The Swiss Diet was known as Tagsatzung.

Until 1953, the Danish parliament was called the Rigsdag and had two chambers.