Meanings
nounsejmik (plural sejmiks or sejmiki)
plural sejmiks · plural sejmiki
- historicalA local or regional parliament in Poland; a dietine.
Forced to raise extraordinary taxes for the Thirteen Years' War, Casimir called general assemblies that were in effect meetings of his council, but their decisions were not seen as binding on the districts until ratified by the provincial sejmiks.
2018, Robert I. Frost, The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania, volume 1
Origin
- Polishsejmik
- Englishsejmik
From Polish sejmik.
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