Roques may refer to:
Places
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Roques, Gers, a commune in France
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Roqués, an uninhabited village in Spain
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Roques, Haute-Garonne
Roques (; oc, Ròcas de Garona) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. The IKEA Store in Haute-Garonne was located in this Commune.
Population
The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Roquois'' and ''Roquoise ...
, a commune in France
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Roques de Anaga
The Roques de Anaga are two monolithic rocks forming some of the most emblematic natural monuments of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). Roque de Tierra stands 179 meters above sea level and is closer to the main island while Roque de Fuera, at 66 ...
, two monuments of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
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La Roque-d'Anthéron, a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France
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Los Roques archipelago
The Los Roques Archipelago (Spanish: ''Archipiélago de Los Roques'') is a federal dependency of Venezuela consisting of approximately 350 islands, cays, and islets in a total area of 40.61 square kilometers. The archipelago is located dir ...
, a federal dependency of Venezuela
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Los Roques Airport, a small domestic airport on the El Gran Roque island in the Los Roques archipelago
* Roques, a small village in Aveyron, France
Other uses
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5643 Roques, a Main-belt asteroid
People with the surname Roques
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Claude Roques
Claude Alexandre Roques (16 September 1912 – 19 November 2003) was a French field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games ...
(born 1912), French field hockey player
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Clément-Emile Roques (1880-1964), French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
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Jacques Roques, Swiss aviator
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Guillaume-Joseph Roques
Guillaume-Joseph Roques (1757–1847) was a French neoclassical and romantic painter.
He taught at the Royal Academy of Arts in Toulouse where Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was among his pupils. He was a prolific artist and one of the most ...
(1757–1847), French painter
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Léon Roques (1839–1923), French transcriber
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Pierre Roques
Pierre Auguste Roques (28 December 1856 – 26 February 1920) was a French general and creator of the French air force.
Biography
Born to a modest family in Marseillan, Hérault, his lively intelligence earned him a study grant that allowed h ...
(1856–1920), French general
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Serge Roques
Serge Roques (born 11 June 1947 in Albi, Tarn) is a French politician and mayor of Villefranche-de-Rouergue (Aveyron). He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Roques was first elected for the Union for French Democracy (UDF) to rep ...
(born 1947), French politician
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Tony Roques (born 1978), English rugby union football player
See also
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Roque (disambiguation)
Roque is an American variant of croquet played on a hard smooth surface.
Roque may also refer to:
* Roque (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
* Roque (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name ...
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Rocks (disambiguation)
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ROCS (disambiguation)
The KDE Education Project (or KDE-Edu project) develops free educational software based on the KDE technologies for students and parents. These educational software is translated into more than 65 languages, so that users can access them without ...
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ROKS (disambiguation) ROKS or variant may refer to:
* ''Republic of Korea Ship'', see Republic of Korea Navy
* ROKS flamethrowers
* ''Roks'', or Rakúsy, a town in Slovakia
* ''Roks'', a radio station in Belarus, see List of radio stations in Belarus
* ''Roks'', a radio ...
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French-language surnames