Veche
![Pskov Veche, by Viktor Vasnetsov.](/Images/godic/202502/19/Pskov_Veche_Vasnetsov1611.jpg")
![Removal of the veche bell from Novgorod to Moscow in 1478.](/Images/godic/202502/19/Veche_bell1611.gif")
![A wiec in the time of Poland's King Casimir III (reigned 1333-70).](/Images/godic/202502/19/Wiec_Kazimierz_Wielki1611.jpg")
Veche (Russian:вече, Polish:wiec, Ukrainian:віче, Belarusian:веча, Old Church Slavonic:вѣштє) was a popular assembly in medieval Slavic countries.
In Novgorod, where the veche acquired the greatest prominence, the veche was broadly similar to the Norse thing or the Swiss Landsgemeinde.