The Sejm of the Estates (Polish: sejm stanowy) or Estates of Galicia (Polish: stany galicyjskie) were the parliament in the first half of the 19th century...

Together with the king, the three were known as the sejming estates, or estates of the sejm (stany sejmujące, literally, "deliberating estates"). Duration...

The Sejm (English: /seɪm/, Polish: [sɛjm] ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the lower...

Financing the world's railways in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.' Ashgate, 2008. p.53 Diet of Galicia was preceded by the Sejm of the Estates...

The Fifth Term Sejm (parliament) of the Second Polish Republic was formed after the general election, which took place on 6 November 1938, with previous...

Netherlands, the Parliament of England, the Estates of Parliament of Scotland, the Sejm of Poland-Lithuania, the Cortes of Portugal or Spain, the Imperial...

Lodomeria'. In Polish, it was called either Sejm krajowy, meaning 'Sejm of the Land', or sejm lwowski, meaning 'Lwów Sejm'. In Ukrainian, it was called Га́лицький...

The Great Sejm, also known as the Four-Year Sejm (Polish: Sejm Wielki or Sejm Czteroletni; Lithuanian: Didysis seimas or Ketverių metų seimas) was a Sejm...

Gavrilo Sheptytsky (1806-1855), member of the Sejm of the Estates, son of Jan Baptist Sheptutsky (1770-1831), Lawyer of the Emperor's Subcommittee [uk], Stryjko...

Sejm (Polish: Sejm Niemy; Lithuanian: Nebylusis seimas), also known as the Mute Sejm, is the name given to the session of the Sejm parliament of the Polish–Lithuanian...

Great Sejm that met between 1788 and 1792. The Commonwealth was a dual monarchy comprising the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania;...

assembly. The term is used historically for deliberative assemblies such as the German Imperial Diet (the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy...

in the Senate, and the head of the Sejm was the Sejm Marshal. The Crown Tribunal, the highest appellate court in the Crown, was reformed. The Sejm would...

The Senate (Polish: Senat) is the upper house of the Polish parliament, the lower house being the Sejm. The history of the Polish Senate stretches back...

article lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases. Assertions, such as those...

king stopped being the "third estate" of the sejm. Besides its principal function of legislating and setting taxation policies the sejm had a supervisory...

The Partition Sejm (Polish: Sejm Rozbiorowy) was a Sejm lasting from 1773 to 1775 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, convened by its three neighbours...

the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and its autonomy was largely abandoned. As a result, the Royal Prussian parliament was incorporated into the Sejm of...

The Estates Revolt (Czech: Stavovský odboj roku 1547) was the first anti-Habsburg uprising of the Czech estates, which took place in Prague in January–July...

ancient wiec council. The idea of the wiec led to the development of the Polish parliament, the Sejm, in around 1180. The term "sejm" comes from an old Polish...

nobleman (szlachcic). Stefan was member of the Sejm in Galicia and owner of Wysocko, Baranów and Kłuszyn estates. He married Zofia Potocka on 24 August...

signed during the Grodno Sejm on January 23, 1793 (without Austria). The Third Partition took place on October 24, 1795, in reaction to the unsuccessful...

inside the country, the Polish Sejm ratified the partition in 1773 during the Partition Sejm, which was convened by the three powers. By the late 18th...

his estates. King Stanisław II Augustus and the Polish Sejm commissioned him in 1776 to produce a new legal code for Poland, which became known as the Zamoyski...

member of the Sejm and Sejm Marshal in Polish Congress Poland in 1818, 1820 and 1825. He participated in the November Uprising. After the fall of the Uprising...

Rzewuski to join the anti-royalist conspiracy. The election of Stanisław Małachowski and Kazimierz Lew Sapieha as marshals of the Four Years Sejm still further...

The Sejm of the Grand Duchy of Posen (German: Provinziallandtag des Großherzogthums Posen, Polish: Sejm Wielkiego Księstwa Poznańskiego) was the parliament...

Commonwealth via the lower legislative chamber of the Sejm (bicameral national parliament), composed of representatives elected at local sejmiks (local...

The Prussian estates (German: Preußischer Landtag, Polish: Stany pruskie) were representative bodies of Prussia, first created by the Monastic state of...

lower house, the Sejm, and an upper house, the Senate. The Nihil novi act adopted by the Polish General Sejm in 1505, transferred most of the legislative...