Legislative, administrative, and judicial body of the Principality of Transylvania
Reduta Palace in Cluj-Napoca, the building where the Diet of Transylvania functioned after 1790
The Transylvanian Diet (German: Siebenbürgischer Landtag; Hungarian: erdélyi országgyűlés; Romanian: Dieta Transilvaniei) was an important legislative, administrative and judicial body of the Principality (from 1765 Grand Principality) of Transylvania between 1570 and 1867. The general assemblies of the Transylvanian noblemen and the joint assemblies of the representatives of the "Three Nations of Transylvania"—the noblemen, Székelys and Saxons—gave rise to its development. After the disintegration of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary in 1541, delegates from the counties of the eastern and northeastern territories of Hungary proper (or Partium) also attained the Transylvanian Diet, transforming it into a legal successor of the medieval Diets of Hungary.
The diet sessions at Vásárhely (now Târgu Mureș) (20 January 1542) and at Torda (now Turda) (2 March 1542) laid the basis for the political and administrative organization of Transylvania. The diet decided on juridical, military and economic matters. It ceased to exist following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867.
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The TransylvanianDiet (German: Siebenbürgischer Landtag; Hungarian: erdélyi országgyűlés; Romanian: Dieta Transilvaniei) was an important legislative...
Valachorum).[citation needed] Despite the pressing issues at hand, the TransylvanianDiet was still not called together by the Voivode, resulting in the various...
participated as equals in the TransylvanianDiet at Torda. The TransylvanianDiet thus became the legal successor of the Hungarian Diets. The chancellery and the...
basic arrangement. This was probably the result of a ruling by the TransylvanianDiet, associating each heraldic element with a distinct entity of Transylvania...
Siebenbürgen or Transsilvanien, historically Überwald, also Siweberjen in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe...
Transylvania was first recognized by the Edict of Torda, issued by the TransylvanianDiet under Prince John II Sigismund Zápolya (January 1568), and was first...
18th century Transylvania who in their quality of members of the TransylvanianDiet addressed the issue of political rights for Romanians in Transylvania...
Church was first recognized by the Edict of Torda, issued by the TransylvanianDiet under its Unitarian Prince John II Sigismund Zápolya (January 1568)...
tolerated. Transylvania was governed by princes and its Diet (parliament). The TransylvanianDiet consisted of three estates: the Hungarian elite (largely...
Transylvania was governed by its princes and its parliament (Diet). The TransylvanianDiet consisted of three Estates (Unio Trium Nationum): the Hungarian...
Prince of Transylvania and this was endorsed on 13 October 1613 by the TransylvanianDiet at Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca). In 1615, after the Peace of Tyrnau, Bethlen...
rights with the other ethnicities of Transylvania and a share of the TransylvanianDiet proportional to their population. The first Supplex was sent in March...
1556, the TransylvanianDiet entrusted her with a five-year regency period on behalf of her 16-year-old son. Isabella set up her Transylvanian chancellery...
remained, most of it adhering to the Calvinist faith. In 1558 the TransylvanianDiet of Turda declared free practice of both the Catholic and Lutheran...
some time. On 29 May 1848, at Kolozsvár (now Cluj, Romania), the TransylvanianDiet (formed of 116 Hungarians, 114 Székelys and 35 Saxons) ratified the...
accepted religions (religo recepta), having their representatives in the TransylvanianDiet, while the other religions, like the Orthodoxs, Sabbatarians and Anabaptists...
their realm in cooperation with the Diet, composed of the representatives of the Hungarian noblemen, the Transylvanian Saxons, and the Székelys and of delegates...
two days before the Diet met on 10 October, Transylvanian nobles elected Michael the voivode as Prince of Transylvania. As the Diet was assembled, Michael...
Hungarian Diet was held here in 1467, by Matthias Corvinus. Later, in the 16th century, Turda was often the residence of the TransylvanianDiet, too. After...
Transylvanian Saxon is the native German dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons, an ethnic German minority group from Transylvania in central Romania, and...
Transylvania, Bornemissza left his diocese and the Transylvanian bishopric was left vacant. In 1556, the Diet elected Petrovics vice-regent to govern the country...
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