The Swedish national legislature, since medieval times, has borne a different style, Riksdag, which is cognate to the old name of the German national assembly, Reichstag. In Sweden, however, "ting" is used to name the subnational county councils, which are called Landsting. That name was also used in medieval times for the tings that governed the historical Landskap provinces, that were superseded by the counties in the 17th century. The name "ting" is also found in the names of the first level instances of the Swedish and Finnish court system, which are called "tingsrätt" (), the 'court of the thing'.