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The Imperial Diet (Latin: Dieta Imperii or Comitium Imperiale; German: Reichstag) 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.
Imperial Diet means the highest representative assembly in an empire, notably: Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire), the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806) National Diet, the current legislature of Japan (1889–)
The Holy Roman Empire did not have its own dedicated ministry of foreign affairs and therefore the Imperial Diet had no control over these diplomats; occasionally the Diet criticised them. [232] When Regensburg served as the site of the Diet, France and, in the late 1700s, Russia, had diplomatic representatives there. [232]
The membership of the Imperial Diet in 1792, late in the Empire's history but before the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars, gives some insight as to the composition of the Holy Roman Empire at that time. Structure of the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire in 1792.
Seating order of the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg (1663 engraving) Map of the Holy Roman Empire in 1400. An Imperial State or Imperial Estate (Latin: Status Imperii; German: Reichsstand, plural: Reichsstände) was a part of the Holy Roman Empire with representation and the right to vote in the Imperial Diet (Reichstag).
Imperial Diets of the Holy Roman Empire (between the Middle Ages and the early 19th century). Pages in category "Imperial Diets (Holy Roman Empire)" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
Medieval Latin: Dieta. German: Reichstag. Date: c. 1100 - 1806. Diet, legislature of the German empire, or Holy Roman Empire, from the 12th century to 1806.
