Rota or ROTA may refer to:

Places

Rota (island) Rota ( Chamorro: Luta), also known as the "Friendly Island", is the southernmost island of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and the second southernmost of the Marianas Archipelago. In early Spanish records ...

, in the Marianas archipelago * 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 o ...

, a town in Andalusia, Spain *

Naval Station Rota, Spain Naval Station Rota, also known as NAVSTA Rota ( es, Base Naval de Rota, links=no), is a Spanish-American naval base commanded by a Spanish Rear Admiral. Located in Rota in the Province of Cádiz, NAVSTA Rota is the largest American military comm ...

People

Rota (surname) Rota is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfredo Rota * Anthony Rota (born 1961), Canadian Member of Parliament * Carlo Rota (born 1961), Canadian chef and actor * Cristina Rota * Darcy Rota * Gian-Carlo Rota (1932–1999), I ...

, 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. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...

* ''Rota'', a collection of poems by A. W. Yrjänä * Rota, a type of

round (music) A round (also called a perpetual canon 'canon perpetuus''or infinite canon) is a musical composition, a limited type of canon, in which a minimum of three voices sing exactly the same melody at the unison (and may continue repeating it in ...

Organizations

Rota (formation) A rota (russian: Рота, german: Rotte) is an infantry or cavalry unit. In Poland it was known increasingly from the 16th century by the alternative name of ''Chorągiew.'' After about 1630, the term was used to describe a file of 6-10 soldiers ...

, an infantry or cavalry unit * Reach Out To Asia, a non-governmental organization based in Qatar *

Roman Rota The Roman Rota, formally the Apostolic Tribunal of the Roman Rota ( la, Tribunal Apostolicum Rotae Romanae), and anciently the Apostolic Court of Audience, is the highest appellate tribunal of the Catholic Church, with respect to both Latin-r ...

, the highest appellate tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church * Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar, a military police force in São Paulo *

Rota Club The Rota Club was a debate society of learned gentlemen who debated republican ideology in London between November 1659 and February 1660. The Club was founded and dominated by James Harrington. It began during the English Interregnum (1649–1660 ...

, a 1659–1660 London debate society * Royal Rota, the press pool for the British Royal Family

Other uses

* Rota (architecture), 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, a Valkyrie in Norse mythology * Rota, a term for a

schedule (workplace) A schedule, often called a rota or 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 the ...

, a list of employees who are working on any given day, week, or month * Rota, a lion presented to Winston Churchill 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 This number tells you what the company can do with what it has, ''i.e.'' how many doll ...

* ''

Rota Fortunae In medieval and ancient philosophy the Wheel of Fortune, or ''Rota Fortunae'', is a symbol of the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna (Greek equivalent Tyche) who spins it at random, changing the positions of t ...

'', 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") was a system of collateral succession practiced (though imperfectly) in Kievan Rus', later appanages, and early the Grand Duchy ...

, 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 t ...

* includes the ideogram

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