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.

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, a 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 Butte, a mountain in Arizona
• 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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4. List of state and territorial capitols in the United States
5. Capitol Center
6. Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut
7. Texas State Capitol
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9. Capitol Hill Club
10. California State Capitol
11. United States Capitol Police
12. Knesset
13. Capitol Technology University
14. Capitol Air
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16. Architect of the Capitol
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18. The Capitol, Melbourne
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