Curia (disambiguation)
Curia in ancient Rome referred to one of the original groupings of the citizenry.
 |
Look up Curia or curia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Curia may also refer to:
Historical organisations
- Curia feudalis, in medieval times, a suzerain lord's court, council and court of lustice, consisting of vassals
- Curia regis, in England and France
- Curia Regia, in Hungary and in the Pyrenean Peninsula
- Curia ducis, in Italy
- Magna Curia, in the kingdom of Sicily
Law and politics
- CVRIA or Court of Justice of the European Union, the institution of the European Union that encompasses the whole judiciary
- Curia (elections), separate electoral colleges in the curial electoral system
Christian organisations
- Curia (Catholic Church), an official body that governs a particular Church in Roman Catholicism
- Roman Curia, the group of administrative institutions of the Holy See
- Diocesan curia, curia of diocese
- Prima Curia, a church and spiritual organization based on ancient teachings of Jesus Christ
Places
- Curia, Graubünden or Chur, a town in Switzerland
- Curia (land) or Courland, one of the historical and cultural regions in western Latvia
Buildings
- Curia Hostilia, first meeting house of the Roman Senate
- Curia Cornelia, second meeting house of the Roman Senate
- Curia Julia, third meeting house of the Roman Senate
- Curia of Pompey, meeting house of the Roman Senate
- Curia Confoederationis Helveticae or Federal Palace of Switzerland, the building housing the Swiss Federal Assembly and Federal Council
Plants
- Justicia pectoralis, an herb also known as curia
- Ayapana triplinervis, a tropical plant also known as curia
People
- Curia (wife of Quintus Lucretius) (c. 60 – 5 BC), ancient Roman woman who hid her husband
- Curia (gens), a plebeian family at Rome
- Francesco Curia (1538–1610), Italian painter
Other uses
- CURIA (Cork University and Royal Irish Academy), a project to create a corpus of Irish texts, now called CELT
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Curia
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.