Capitol
A capitol, named after the Capitoline Hill in Rome, is usually a legislative building where a legislature meets and makes laws for its respective political entity.
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Specific capitols include:
- United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
- Numerous U.S. state and territorial capitols
- Capitolio Nacional in Bogotá, Colombia
- Capitolio Federal in Caracas, Venezuela
- El Capitolio in Havana, Cuba
- Capitol of Palau in Ngerulmud, Palau
Capitol, capitols, or The Capitol may also refer to:
- Entertainment and Media
- Capitol (board game), a Roman-themed board game
- Capitol (The Hunger Games trilogy), a fictional city in The Hunger Games novels
- Capitol (TV series), a U.S. soap opera
- Capitol (collection), a book by Orson Scott Card
- The Capitols, a Detroit, Michigan-based soul trio
- Business
- Capitol Wrestling Corporation, a predecessor organization to World Wrestling Entertainment
- Capitol Records, a U.S. record label
- Capitol Air, originally known as Capitol International Airways, an American charter airline operating from 1946 to the mid 1980s
- Other locations
- Capitoline Hill in Rome (from which the word capitol derives)
- Capitols, former name of the Capitol Corridor passenger train route in California, United States
- Capitole de Toulouse, an historic building in Toulouse, France, now used as a municipal and public-arts center
- The capitouls of Toulouse, the city's former chief magistrates
- Capitol College, a private, non-profit, and non-sectarian college located just south of Laurel, Maryland
- Capitol Reef National Park, a U.S. National Park in south-central Utah
- Capitolium, the temple for the Capitoline Triad in many cities of the Roman Empire
- The Capitol (Hong Kong), a large private housing estate in Hong Kong
- The Capitol (Fayetteville, North Carolina), department store
- Capitol (Williamsburg, Virginia), a historic building that housed the House of Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia 1705–1779
See also
- All pages with titles containing Capitol
- Capital (disambiguation)
- Capitol Center (disambiguation)
- Capitol Hill (disambiguation), a number of districts in the United States and Canada
- Capitol station (disambiguation)
- Capitol Theater (disambiguation), a number of former and current cinemas or theatres located throughout the world
- Le Capitole (train), a former express train between Paris and Toulouse
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