Thing (assembly)
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A thing (Old Norse, Old English and Icelandic: þing; German, Dutch ding; modern Scandinavian languages: ting) was the governing assembly in Germanic societies and introduced into some Celtic societies, made up of the free people of the community and presided by lawspeakers, meeting in a place called a thingstead. Today, the term lives on in the official names of national legislatures and political and judicial institutions in the Nordic countries, in the Manx form tyn, as a term for the three legislative bodies on the Isle of Man, and in the English term husting.
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See also
- Diet (assembly)
- The Estates
- Gerichtslinde
- Jamtamót
- Landsgemeinde
- Moot hill
- Norse law
- Thingspiele, Nazi multidisciplinary dramas for which open-air Thingplatz amphitheatres were built
- Tithing (country subdivision)
- Veche
- Wiec (Polish)
- Witenagemot
- Ecclesia (ancient Athens)
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