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Praetorium was originally the name of the headquarters of a Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 army. The praetorium was the commander's tent or building in a Roman fortification, a castra
Castra

The Latin language word castra, with its singular castrum, was used by the ancient Romans to mean buildings or plots of land reserved to or constructed for use as a military defensive position....
 or castellum
Castellum

A castellum is a small Ancient Rome detached fort or fortlet used as a watch tower or signal station. The Latin language word castellum is a diminutive of castra , which in turn is the plural of castrum ; it is the source of the English language word "castle"....
.

Later, praetorium was used for the residence of a procurator
Procurator

Procurator may refer to:In historical uses:*Promagistrate, an appointed position in the Roman Republic by the Senate, acting in place of a curator...
 (governor) of a Roman province.






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Praetorium was originally the name of the headquarters of a Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 army. The praetorium was the commander's tent or building in a Roman fortification, a castra
Castra

The Latin language word castra, with its singular castrum, was used by the ancient Romans to mean buildings or plots of land reserved to or constructed for use as a military defensive position....
 or castellum
Castellum

A castellum is a small Ancient Rome detached fort or fortlet used as a watch tower or signal station. The Latin language word castellum is a diminutive of castra , which in turn is the plural of castrum ; it is the source of the English language word "castle"....
.

Later, praetorium was used for the residence of a procurator
Procurator

Procurator may refer to:In historical uses:*Promagistrate, an appointed position in the Roman Republic by the Senate, acting in place of a curator...
 (governor) of a Roman province. The term was also used for the emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
's headquarters.

The word (also spelled prœtorium or pretorium) was derived from the Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 praitórion, meaning military headquarters.

Praetor
Praetor

Praetor was a Title#Titles_for_heads_of_state granted by the government of Ancient Rome to men acting in one of two official capacities: the commander of an army, either before it was mustered or more typically in the field, or an elected Magistratus assigned duties that varied depending on the historical period....
 ("leader") was originally the title of the highest-ranking civil servant in the Roman Republic
Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
 but later became a position directly below the rank of consul
Consul

Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably French Republic before the Napoleon I of Franceic counter-revolution....
. A general's lifeguard was known as the cohors praetoriae, out of which developed the Pretorian Guard, the emperor's lifeguard.

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In the New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
, praetorium refers to the palace of Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilate

Pontius Pilate was the Roman_governor#Equestrian_procurator of the Roman Empire Iudaea Province from the year AD 26 until AD 36. He is typically known as the sixth Procurator of Judea, but some sources cite him as the fifth....
, the Roman procurator of Judea
Judea

Judea or Jud?a is the name given to the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel , an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank ....
. According to the New Testament, this is where Jesus Christ was tried and condemned to death.

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