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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 265 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TRIBUNE (med. See also:Lat. tribune, from classical Lat. tribunal)  , in See also:architecture, the See also:term given to the semicircular See also:apse of the See also:Roman See also:basilica, with a raised See also:platform, where the presiding See also:magistrate sat; subsequently applied generally to any raised structure from which speeches were delivered and to the private See also:box of the See also:emperor at the See also:Circus See also:Maximus . In See also:Christian basilicas the term is retained for the semicircular See also:recess behind the See also:choir, as at S . Clemente in See also:Rome, S . Apollinare in Classe, See also:Ravenna, S . See also:Zeno at See also:Verona, S . Miniato near See also:Florence, and other churches . The term is also loosely applied to various other raised spaces in See also:secular as well as ecclesiastical buildings, in the latter sometimes in the See also:place of " See also:pulpit," as in that of the See also:refectory of St See also:Martin See also:des Champs at See also:Paris . It is also given to the celebrated octagon See also:room of the Uffizi at Florence, and sometimes to a See also:gallery or See also:triforium .

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