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    A thing, also known as a folkmoot, assembly, tribal council, and by other names, was a governing assembly in early Germanic society, made up of the free...
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  • in literature and culture Thing (assembly), also spelled as ting or þing, a historical Germanic governing assembly The Thing (listening device), a Soviet...
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  • Federal Assembly Landtag The Estates (States) List of legislatures by country Thing (assembly) Reichstag (disambiguation) National Assembly House of...
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  • The Thing of all Swedes (allra Svía þing, Þing allra Svía, Disaþing, or Kyndilþing) was the governing assembly held from pre-historic times to the Middle...
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    in the world. The Althing was founded in 930 at Þingvellir ('thing fields' or 'assembly fields'), situated approximately 45 kilometres (28 mi) east of...
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  • Ting Tong, near Budleigh Salterton in South East Devon, England; see Thing (assembly) § Viking and medieval society Ding Dong (disambiguation) Ting Ting...
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    Þingvellir (category Thing (assembly))
    from þing (“thing, assembly”) and vǫllr (“field”), meaning assembly fields. Compare the English thing and weald (“Thingweald”) from Anglo-Saxon þing and...
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  • form of Old German names beginning with Mahal- "assembly". It described the advisor of the Thing (assembly). It may refer to: Malte-Conrad Bruun (1755–1826)...
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    Thynghowe (category Thing (assembly))
    Thynghowe was an important Viking Age open-air assembly place or thing, located at Sherwood Forest, in Nottinghamshire, England. It was lost to history...
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    Gulating (redirect from Gula Thing)
    all the laws adopted and amended by the farmers at the thing over several centuries. The assembly site was established early in the 10th century and the...
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    Inatsisartut (category Thing (assembly))
    Greenlandic pronunciation: [inatt͡sisɑtːʉt] Danish: Landstinget, lit. 'the land's-thing of Greenland'), also known as the Parliament of Greenland in English, is...
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    Parliament of Åland (category Thing (assembly))
    of Finland Government of Finland Åland State Provincial Office Swedish Assembly of Finland Politics of Finland Ting Arter, David (2022). "Personal representation...
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    Dingwall (category Thing (assembly))
    from the Scandinavian Þingvöllr (field or meeting-place of the thing, or local assembly; compare Tynwald, Tingwall, Thingwall in the British Isles alone...
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    breaks off. The goddess refuses. The gods meet together in counsel (see Thing (assembly)) and discuss how to get the hammer back. The god Heimdallr proposes...
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    Folketing (category Thing (assembly))
    Folketinget, pronounced [ˈfʌlkəˌtsʰe̝ŋˀð̩]; lit. 'The people's thing' or 'People's assembly'), also known as the Parliament of Denmark or the Danish Parliament...
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    Frostating (category Thing (assembly))
    Court of Appeal in Norway. Tinghaugen, from the Old Norse words þing meaning 'assembly' and haugr meaning 'hill', is close to the medieval church at Logtun...
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    Frostathing Law (category Thing (assembly))
    than that. Originally they existed only in oral form at meetings of the Thing. It is first mentioned in the collection of old Norse Sagas by Snorri Sturluson...
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    Tynwald (category Thing (assembly))
    Þingvǫllr meaning the meeting place of the assembly, the field (vǫllr→wald, cf. the Old English cognate weald) of the thing. Tynwald meets annually on Tynwald...
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  • Lionga thing was the general assembly of the people of Östergötland in medieval Sweden. Lionga thing is mentioned in Östgötalagen and was held in Linköping...
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    Løgting (category Thing (assembly))
    means "Law Thing"—that is, a law assembly—and derives from Old Norse lǫgþing, which was a name given to ancient assemblies. A ting or þing has existed...
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    Old Burmese word, not of Indic origin. ☽6 First day of the week ♂1 Thing (Assembly), of which god Tyr/Ziu was the patron. ♂2 Second day of the week (cf...
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  • (disambiguation) Other types of deliberative assembly: House of Assembly Legislative Assembly National Assembly Thing (assembly) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • Finland's language strife Svecoman Swedish People's Party Yle Teema & Fem Thing (assembly) Official website (in both Swedish and Finnish) Swedish in Finland:...
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  • Landsting may refer to: Thing (assembly), the supreme assembly of a land in Scandinavia, during Viking and Medieval times Parliament of Greenland Landsting...
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    has Ragnar, who claims to have killed Knut, arrested and tried at the Thing assembly. The Earl fails to bribe Rollo to testify against Ragnar, and Ragnar...
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  • The Thing of all Geats (Swedish: Alla götars ting) was the thing (general assembly) which was held from pre-historic times to the Middle Ages in Skara...
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    Teiwaz, early Germanic sky god, also the god of law, justice, and the thing (assembly) Aether, primeval god of the upper air Apollo, god of the sun, archery...
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  • parties. Great Kurultáj Legislature Loya Jirga Naadam State Great Khural Thing (assembly) Veche Witenagemot World Nomad Games World Turks Qurultai Chinese:...
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    Landstinget (category Thing (assembly))
    members were appointed by the existing members. Ting (old Norse: þing) means assembly. It first came into being during Viking times and was formed by the...
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    Revolution Jiangxi–Fujian Soviet Participatory democracy Soviet democracy Thing (assembly) Workers' control Workers' council Earlier, in the Russian SFSR, there...
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