What is Diet of Augsburg?
The '''Diet of Augsburg''' were the meetings of the Imperial Diet of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] that held in the [[Germany|German]] city of [[Augsburg]]. Both an imperial city and the residence of the Augsburg prince-bishops, the city hosted the Estates in many such sessions from the 10th century. The most famous one was in 1530, when Emperor [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] summoned the German princes to a diet in Augsburg to put an end to ecclesiastic dissensions. Each prince was asked to state in writing in [[German language|German]] and in [[Latin]] his religious opinions and the ecclesiastic abuses that should be corrected. [[Category:1530]] [[Category:Holy Roman Empire]]