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Parliament Building (Botswana)
Parliament building and variations may refer to: *Casa de la Vall: a two building complex (old and new) in Andorra la Vella, Andorra *Palace of the Argentine National Congress, in Buenos Aires, Argentina *Austrian Parliament Building * Bangladesh Parliament Building *Parliament Buildings (Barbados), a two building complex in Bridgetown, Barbados * Brussels Parliament building * Parliament Building (New Delhi), India ** Old Parliament House, New Delhi (1927–2023) ** New Parliament Building (New Delhi) (since 2023) *Parliament Hill for the Canadian Parliament buildings **British Columbia Parliament Buildings, the official name of the provincial legislative buildings in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada **First Ontario Parliament Buildings **Parliament Building (Quebec), an eight-floor building and home to the Parliament of Quebec *Toompea Castle, the Estonian Parliament building *Parliament House, Helsinki, the Finnish Parliament building *Parliament Building, Guyana *Hungarian P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casa De La Vall
Casa de la Val is a historical house in Andorra la Vella, Andorra. It is former headquarters of the General Council of Andorra. It lies just to the southwest of the Andorra National Library. It is a heritage property registered in the Cultural Heritage of Andorra. It was built in 1580 as a manor and tower defense by the Busquets family. In 1702, it was acquired by the Consell de la Terra. The floor of the building is rectangular. The structure has two floors. The ground floor is for the administration of justice with the court room. On the first floor, the main floor of the family home, is the Council Chamber, a chapel dedicated to St. Ermengol and the "closet of the seven keys" which are stored historical documents such as the '' Manual Digest'' and '' Politar Andorrà''. The cabinet has a lock for each of the parishes of Andorra. The second floor housed, until the beginning of the nineties, the Postal Museum of Andorra, which was dismantled to provide meeting space for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Buildings (Kenya)
The Parliament Buildings in Nairobi are the seat of the Parliament of Kenya, Kenyan Parliament. History The buildings were constructed in 1954 and became the home of the colonial legislature of the Kenya Colony, the Legislative Council of Kenya, which sat there until 1963, when the council was replaced by the National Assembly (Kenya), National Assembly. The buildings, known before 1963 as the "Legislative Buildings", were designed by prominent modernist architect, Amyas Connell, and the town planning advisor to the Kenyan Colonial Government, Harold Thornley Dyer. The Parliament has an English-style clocktower which was a design requirement to have the Legislative Buildings echo the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben. During the Kenya Finance Bill protests on 25 June 2024, the parliament was 2024 Parliament of Kenya assault, stormed. Several rooms were ransacked while parts of the building were set on fire. The ceremonial mace used in legislative proceedings was stolen. Ten pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Building
A legislative building is referred to as a building in which a legislature sits and makes laws for its respective Polity, political entity. The term used for the building varies between the political entities, such as "building", "capitol", "hall", "house", or "palace", in the national language of that particular political entity. National Africa Americas Dependencies Asia Europe Dependencies Oceania Supranational Europe Sub-national Australia Canada New Zealand Portugal Spain United Kingdom United States References {{DEFAULTSORT:Legislative buildings Legislative buildings, * Lists of government buildings Legislatures-related lists, Buildings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diet (assembly)
In politics, a diet ( ) is a formal deliberative assembly or legislature. The term is used for some assemblies such as the German Imperial Diet (the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire), as well as a designation for modern-day legislative bodies of certain countries and states such as the National Diet of Japan, or the German Bundestag, the Federal Diet. Etymology The term (also in the nutritional sense) might be derived from Medieval Latin ', meaning both "parliamentary assembly" and "daily food allowance", from earlier Latin , possibly from the Greek ("arbitration"), or transcribing Classical Greek (), meaning "way of living", and hence also "diet" (regular food), "regular (daily) work". Through a false etymology, reflected in Latin spelling change in medieval Europe that replaced the ''ae'' with ''e'', the word ''diaeta'' came to be associated with another Latin word , which means "day". Day thus came to be used in postclassical Europe in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitol (other)
Capitol, capitols or The Capitol may refer to: Places and buildings Legislative building * United States Capitol, in Washington, D.C. * National Capitol of Colombia, in Bogotá * Palacio Federal Legislativo, in Caracas, Venezuela * National Capitol of Cuba, in Havana, Cuba * Capitol of Palau, in Ngerulmud * List of legislative buildings * List of state and territorial capitols in the United States United States * Capitol Technology University, formerly Capitol College, Laurel, Maryland * Capitol Butte, a mountain in Arizona * Capitol Reef National Park, a National Park in Utah * The Capitol (Fayetteville, North Carolina), a department store * Capitol (Williamsburg, Virginia), a historic building that housed the House of Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia 1705–1779 Elsewhere * Capitoline Hill, a hill in Rome, Italy * Capitole de Toulouse, a historic building in Toulouse, France * The Capitol (Hong Kong), a private housing estate in China Arts, entertainment and media * ''Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament House (other)
Parliament House may refer to: Meeting places of parliament Australia * Parliament House, Canberra, Parliament of Australia * Parliament House, Adelaide, Parliament of South Australia * Parliament House, Brisbane, Parliament of Queensland * Parliament House, Darwin, Parliament of the Northern Territory * Parliament House, Hobart, Parliament of Tasmania * Parliament House, Melbourne, Parliament of Victoria * Parliament House, Perth, Parliament of Western Australia * Parliament House, Sydney, Parliament of New South Wales India * Parliament House, New Delhi (other) ** Old Parliament House, New Delhi (1927–2023) ** New Parliament House, New Delhi (since 2023) New Zealand * Parliament House, Auckland * Parliament House, Wellington Elsewhere * National Parliament House, Dhaka, Bangladesh * National Parliament House, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea * Parliament House, Helsinki, Finland * Parliament House of Thailand, the old Parliament house of Thailand ** Sappaya-Sapasath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
