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D of Spires or Speyer
Diet Di"et, n. Specifically: Any of various national or local assemblies; as, (a) Occasionally, the Reichstag of the German Empire, Reichsrath of the Austrian Empire, the federal legislature of Switzerland, etc. (b) The legislature of Denmark, Sweden, Japan, or Hungary. (c) The state assembly or any of various local assemblies in the states of the German Empire, as the legislature (Landtag) of the kingdom of Prussia, and the Diet of the Circle (Kreistag) in its local government. (d) The local legislature (Landtag) of an Austrian province. (e) The federative assembly of the old Germanic Confederation (1815 -- 66). (f) In the old German or Holy Roman Empire, the great formal assembly of counselors (the Imperial Diet or Reichstag) or a small, local, or informal assembly of a similar kind (the Court Diet, or Hoftag). Note: The most celebrated Imperial Diets are the three following, all held under Charles V.: Diet of Worms, 1521, the object of which was to check the Reformation and which condemned Luther as a heretic; D. of Spires, or Speyer, 1529, which had the same object and issued an edict against the further dissemination of the new doctrines, against which edict Lutheran princes and deputies protested (hence Protestants): D. of Augsburg, 1530, the object of which was the settlement of religious disputes, and at which the Augsburg Confession was presented but was denounced by the emperor, who put its adherents under the imperial ban.

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- Peyer is a surname which may refer to: Craig Peyer (born 1950), former California Highway Patrol officer convicted of murdering Cara Knott Gervase de Peyer...
- recovered at the bottom of a 65-foot ravine nearby. Knott's killer, Craig Alan Peyer (born March 16, 1950), was a police officer and thirteen-year veteran of...
- Peyer's patches or aggregated lymphoid nodules are organized lymphoid follicles, named after the 17th-century Swiss anatomist Johann Conrad Peyer. They...
- Heinrich Peyer (1816, Vienna – after 1854) was an Austrian painter. In 1839–1843, he studied at the Academy of Arts in Vienna. He also worked as a landscape...
- Tom Peyer (born February 23, 1954) is an American comic book creator and editor. He is known for his 1999 revisioning of Golden Age super-hero Hourman...
- Károly Peyer (9 May 1881 – 25 October 1956) was a Hungarian politician who served as Interior Minister for six days after the end of the Hungarian Soviet...
- Johann Conrad Peyer (26 December 1653 – 29 February 1712) was a Swiss anatomist who was a native of Schaffhausen. He studied medicine in Paris under Guichard...
- Gervase Alan de Peyer (11 April 1926 – 4 February 2017) was an English clarinettist and conductor. Gervase Alan de Peyer was born in London, the eldest...
- Polly A. Peyer is a retired major general in the U.S. Air Force. She previously commanded the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center at Robins AFB in Warner...
- Johann Baptist Peyer, also spelt Bayer or Beyer (c. 1678 – 10 April 1733) was an Austrian organist and composer. He may have been educated at Heiligenkreuz...