Imperial Diet
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Key facts
- Succeeded by
- Diet of the Confederation ( Confederation of the Rhine )
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- popular assembly
- Country
- Holy Roman Empire
- Image
- Kurien des reichstages des Heiligen Römischen Reiches.jpg
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- P8168
- Lasosna
- Commons category
- Reichstag (Holy Roman Empire)
- topic's main category
- Category:Imperial Diets (Holy Roman Empire)
- different from
- Reichstag
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Encyclopedic overview
Seating plan for an inauguration of the Imperial Diet in the Regensburg Town Hall from a 1675 engraving: Emperor and prince-electors at the head, secular princes to the left, ecclesiastical to the right, deputies of imperial cities in the foreground. The Imperial Diet (German: Reichstag; Latin: Dieta Imperii or Comitium Imperiale) was the deliberative body of the Holy Roman Empire. It was not a legislative body in the contemporary sense; its members envisioned it more like a central forum where it was more important to negotiate than to decide.
Its members were the Imperial Estates, divided into three colleges. The diet as a permanent, regularized institution evolved from the Hoftage (court assemblies) of the Middle Ages. From 1663 until the end of the empire in 1806, it was in permanent session at Regensburg.
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