Rota or ROTA may refer to:

Places

Rota, Northern Mariana Islands Rota (), also known as the "Friendly Island", is the southernmost island of the United States Northern Mariana Islands, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and the third southernmost of the Mariana Islands, Marianas Archipelago (t ...

, an island and municipality * Rota (volcano), in Nicaragua *

Rota, Andalusia The town of Rota is a Spanish municipality located in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia. Its surface area is 84 km2 and is bordered by the towns of Chipiona, Sanlúcar de Barrameda and El Puerto de Santa María. It is located near the city of ...

, a town in Andalusia, Spain *

Naval Station Rota, Spain Naval Station Rota, also known as NAVSTA Rota (), is a Spanish naval base, that is jointly used by the Spanish Navy and the United States Navy. Located in Rota, Cádiz, Rota in the Province of Cádiz, NAVSTA Rota is the largest American military ...

People

* Rota (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * Rota Waitoa (died 1866), New Zealand Anglican clergyman

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Rota'' (poem), once proposed to be the national anthem of

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

* ''Rota'', a collection of poems by

A. W. Yrjänä Aki Ville Yrjänä (born 30 July 1967 in Kemi), better known by the stage name, A. W. Yrjänä (), is a poet and the singer, bassist, and primary songwriter of the Finnish rock band CMX. In addition to his musical work, he has published fiv ...

* Rota, a type of

round (music) A round (also called a perpetual canon 'canon perpetuus'' round about or infinite canon) is a musical composition, a limited type of canon, in which multiple voices sing exactly the same melody, but with each voice beginning at different t ...

* Rota, Rotta, Rotte, Rote, a medieval musical instrument resembling a harp *

Crwth :''See Rotte (psaltery), Rotte for the psaltery, or Rotte (lyre), Rotte for the plucked lyre.'' The crwth ( , ), also called a crowd or rote or crotta, is a bowed lyre, a type of string instrument, stringed instrument, associated particularly w ...

also called Rote, a medieval bowed lyre

Organizations

Rota (formation) A rota (, ) is an infantry or cavalry unit. The term was used in the Bulgarian Army, the Czech Army, the Slovak Army, and the Russian Army and means "company." After about 1630, the term was used to describe a file of 6-10 soldiers in formation ...

, an infantry or cavalry unit *

Reach Out To Asia The Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development () is a state-led non-profit organization in Qatar, founded in 1995 by then-emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and his second wife Moza bint Nasser Al-Missned. According to the Q ...

, a non-governmental organization based in Qatar *

Roman Rota The Roman Rota, formally the Apostolic Tribunal of the Roman Rota (), and anciently the Apostolic Court of Audience, is the highest appellate tribunal of the Catholic Church, with respect to both Latin Church members and the Eastern Catholic m ...

, the highest appellate tribunal of the Catholic Church *

Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar The 1st Shock Police Battalion of the PMESP, São Paulo Military Police, also known as Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar (Portuguese for ''Rafael Tobias de Aguiar, Tobias de Aguiar Ostensive Patrols'') is a tactical police unit, mostly known by i ...

, a military police force in São Paulo * Rota Club, a 1659–1660 London debate society *

Royal Rota The Royal Rota is the press pool that covers the British royal family. The Royal Rota is made up of a select group of media representatives that are invited to attend and report on royal events, with the understanding that the news and photogra ...

, the press pool for the British Royal Family

Other uses

Rota (architecture) The rota or "turn" is a cylinder on a vertical axis, open on one side, that is built inside a wall of a monastery, nunnery or foundling hospital. It was used for exchanging mail and food with cloistered clergy, being their only communication with ...

, a rotating cylinder built into a wall, used for exchanging mail and food with cloistered clergy * ''Rota'' (genus), an extinct sea cucumber; see List of prehistoric sea cucumbers *

Rota (papal signature) The ''rota'' is one of the symbols used by the pope to authenticate documents such as papal bulls. It is a cross inscribed in two concentric circles. Pope Leo IX was the first pope to use it. The four inner quadrants contain: " ''Petrus''", ...

, a sign which makes up part of the pope's signature *

Róta In Norse mythology, Róta is a valkyrie. Róta is attested in chapter 36 of the ''Prose Edda'' book ''Gylfaginning'', where she is mentioned alongside the valkyries Gunnr and Skuld, and the three are described as "always idingto choose who shall ...

, a Valkyrie in Norse mythology * Rota, a term for a

schedule (workplace) A schedule, often called a rota or a roster, is a list of employees, and associated information e.g. location, department, working times, responsibilities for a given time period e.g. week, month or sports season. A schedule is necessary for ...

, a list of employees who are working on any given day, week, or month * Rota, a lion presented to

Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (Winston Churchill in the Second World War, ...

in 1943 * ''Rota'', the feminine form of the Chilean term ''

roto ''Roto'', f. ''rota'', (literally "torn" or "broken") is a term used to refer to Chilean people and in particular to the common Chilean. In Chile, from the start of the 20th century, it was applied with a negative classist connotation to poor ...

'' (literally "broken"), used to refer contemptuously to poor city-dwellers in Chile * Return on total assets, a financial ratio; See

Return on assets The return on assets (ROA) shows the percentage of how profitable a company's assets are in generating revenue. ROA can be computed as below: :\mathrm = \frac The phrase return on average assets (ROAA) is also used, to emphasize that average as ...

* ''

Rota Fortunae In Medieval philosophy, medieval and ancient philosophy, the Wheel of Fortune or ''Rota Fortunae'' is a symbol of the capricious nature of destiny, Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna (mythology), Fortuna (Greek mythology, Greek equi ...

'', a concept in medieval and ancient philosophy *

Rota system The rota (or rotation) system or the lestvitsa system (from the Old Church Slavonic word for "ladder" or "staircase") is a historiographical concept introduced by historian Sergei Soloviev in 1860, attempting to describe a system of collateral su ...

, a system of collateral succession * The Rota, the collection of golf courses that host

The Open Championship The Open Championship, often referred to as The Open or the British Open, is the oldest golf tournament in the world, and one of the most prestigious. Founded in 1860, it was originally held annually at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland. Later th ...

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Linear B Linear B is a syllabary, syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest Attested language, attested form of the Greek language. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries, the earliest known examp ...

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