A building in ancient Greek city-states that served as a council hall or meeting place for the governing council (boule).
From Greek boule (council) plus -terion (place for), literally 'the place of the council,' from the root meaning deliberation.
The bouleuterion is where democracy was literally built—these ancient Greek council halls are the ancestors of every parliament building in the world.
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