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Legislative, Parliament and International Body Buildings

Buildings this atlas records under Government and Civic Buildings that house a legislature, parliament, congress, state capitol or comparable governing assembly, including international governmental bodies such as the Palace of Nations (the League of Nations, now the United Nations Office at Geneva) and Villa Valmer (the UN Industrial Development Organization), and the ancient Greek ekklesiasterion, the popular assembly's own meeting place: the largest of this subcategory's seven groups. Belongs here: any building this subcategory records as housing a national, state, provincial or international legislative or governing assembly body. Does not belong here: a building that houses only an executive office or head of state without a legislative assembly, gathered under this subcategory's own Executive, Head-of-State and Diplomatic Buildings group instead.

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Era of Emergence
930 CE 1
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Iceland 1
Legislative, Parliament and International Body Buildings
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  • Wikipedia, Althing, lead section, era
    Established in 930, it is the oldest legislature in the world.
  • Wikipedia: Althing, Lead section
    The original Althing was founded in 930 at Þingvellir ('thing fields' or 'assembly fields', anglicised as Thingvellir), about 45 kilometres (28 mi) east of what later became the country's capital, Reykjavík.
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