Historical legislatures

political institution in ancient Rome

thumb|The Sanhedrin, from an 1883 encyclopedia

thumb|right|Timur's great 'kurultai', from a 16th century copy of Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi's Zafarnama A kurultai (, ), also called a quriltai, was a medieval political and military council consisting of members of a Mongol khan's family, imperial sons-in-law, captains of the army and others during and before the Mongol empire.

general assembly of the Holy Roman Empire

thumb|Anglo-Saxon king with his witan. Biblical scene in the illustrated Old English Hexateuch (11th century), portraying pharaoh in court session, after passing judgment on his chief baker and chief cupbearer. The witan () was the king's council in the Anglo-Saxon government of England from before the 7th century until the 11th century. It comprised important noblemen, including ealdormen, thegns, and bishops. Meetings of the witan were sometimes called the witenagemot.

assemblies actve in the time of Roman rule

type of governing assembly

thumb|250px|Pskov Veche by Apollinary Vasnetsov (1908–1909)

continuation of the Roman Senate, established in the 4th century by Constantine I

grouping of Roman citizens

historical legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland until 1707

deliberative assembly

thumb|right|300px|alt=Landsgemeinde Glarus 2009|Landsgemeinde in Glarus, 2009

1809 legislative assembly which established the Grand Principality of Finland

governing body in Ba'athist Iraq

National legislature of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

thumb|220px|Tagsatzung of 1531 in Baden, Switzerland|Baden (1790s drawing). thumb|220px|Tagsatzung of 1807 at Grossmünster in Zurich The Federal Diet of Switzerland (, ; ; ) was the legislative and executive council of the Old Swiss Confederacy and existed in various forms from the beginnings of Swiss independence until the formation of the Swiss federal state in 1848.

political organ of the Republic of Venice between 1172 and 1797

highest council in Soviet Union

name used for the Estates of Sweden when they were assembled

thumb|250px|Depiction of a Hoftag from the chronicle of the bishops of Würzbürg, non-contemporary

Parliament of the Kingdom of Hungary

Legislature of the Principality of Catalonia (1218-1714)

Stanak is the most common name used to refer to the assembly of nobility in medieval Bosnia. The assembly, in the original Bosančica: (), was also known as the Rusag (from the Hungarian word orszag, meaning "state" or "nation"), Rusag bosanski, Zbor, Sva Bosna (meaning "Whole of Bosnia") or just Bosna, with the officials of the Republic of Ragusa employing several Latin terms as well. The term "stanak sve zemlje Bosne", is first attested in the charter of Tvrtko I in 1354. Its influence peaked between the 1390s and the 1420s. The Serbian historian Sima Ćirković and most other Yugoslav scholars

senate

legislature of Transcaucasia

Historical regional government in the Netherlands

Governing and advisory assembly of the aristocracy

266px|thumb|right| Sejmik in a church, by Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine (1745–1830)

governing body

parliament of the Austrian Empire (1848-9)

legislature of the Kingdom of Sicily

legislative assembly of the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1809 to 1906

representative body in Dutch New Guinea

left-group of Polish exiles

historic house of the Parliament of Denmark

unicameral legislature of the Thailand (2014–2019)

The Gbara (; now spelled and pronounced as Bara or Gara in those Manding languages lacking ) or Great Assembly was the deliberative body of the Mali Empire, which ruled much of West Africa during the Middle Ages. It was first formed in 1235 on the orders of Sundiata in the Mandinka constitution known as the Kouroukan Fouga.

assembly of the Croatian Parliament in 1527

parliamentary body during the civil war era

Danehof ("Danish Court") was the name of the Danish medieval parliament which played a certain role between c. 1250 and 1413.

governing body of Sudan following the June 1989 coup

parliament of the Republic of German-Austria 1918-1919

rada of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Panhellenion () or Panhellenium was a league of Greek city-states established in the year 131–132 AD by the Roman Emperor Hadrian while he was touring the Roman provinces of Greece. The League was established following a ceremony at the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, the capital city of the Panhellenion. Evidence suggests that the Panhellenion continued to survive until the 250s AD.

representative assembly of the Kingdom of Galicia

legislature of the Memel Territory (1924–39)

upper house of the Parliament of Malta (1921-1933)

legislative body that existed in Sardinia during the era of the Giudicati

legislature of Uzbekistan (1991–1994)

legislative body of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)

The Concio (from the Latin contio, "assembly"), in the Republic of Venice, was the general assembly of freemen (citizens and patricians) from which the Doge was elected. It existed between the years 742 and 1423, although it was mostly ceremonial after the Serrata del Maggior Consiglio passed power into the hands of the aristocratic class.