The Riksdag building or Riksdagshuset, Sweden

Posted: 04/2009

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The Riksdag building or Riksdagshuset ("the House of the Parliament") is the seat of the Parliament of Sweden. Its located on Helgeandsholmen in Stockholm.

Riksdag is a Swedish word commonly used as an alternative term for parliament . It is used as the official term for the parliament of Sweden and the parliament of Finland (in Finland alongside the Finnish word eduskunta). The word riksdag literally means "national day" (riks - "national", and dag - "day"), and refers to a meeting of representatives from across Sweden. The word has been used in Sweden since the Middle Ages. The word has a direct equivalent in the German word reichstag (used for various German national parliaments up until 1945), the Danish rigsdag (used for the parliament of Denmark 1849-1953) and the Estonian riigikogu (used for the parliament of Estonia 1920-1940 and again since 1991).

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