A Landtag (Diet)'s a representative assembly or parliament in German-speaking countries with some legislative authority. The German word "Landtag"'s composed of the words Land (meaning state, country, territory) which names a political entity comparable to a federal state (in German Bundesland) and the word Tag. Tag literally means "day" and comes from the fact that in ancient times the assembly was held for a single day (the Latin name "dietas" has the same root) with the derived verbal form ta… (More on Landtag)