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 | Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th 
 
	
		| the Palace of Westminster 
 
 the  Palace of Westminster [the Palace of Westminster] BrE NAmE
 the official name of the British  ↑Houses of Parliament. Its full name is the  New Palace of Westminster, since it was built after the  Old Palace of Westminster  was destroyed in a fire in  1834.  Parliament  used to meet in the Old Palace, which was first built for  ↑Edward the Confessor  in the  11th century. The Palace of Westminster was made a  ↑World Heritage Site  in  1987.
 
 
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