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Rota Romantica - Gramado - Panoramio (2)
Rota or ROTA may refer to: Places * Rota (island), in the Marianas archipelago * Rota (volcano), in Nicaragua * Rota, Andalusia, a town in Andalusia, Spain * Naval Station Rota, Spain 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 * ''Rota'', a collection of poems by A. W. Yrjänä * Rota, a type of round (music) Organizations * Rota (formation), an infantry or cavalry unit * Reach Out To Asia, a non-governmental organization based in Qatar * Roman Rota, the highest appellate tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church * Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar, a military police force in São Paulo * Rota Club, 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 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 it is called "Zarpana"; the name Rota may have come from the Spaniards possibly naming the island after the municipality of Rota, Spain. It lies approximately north-northeast of the United States territory of Guam. Sinapalo village is the largest and most populated, followed by Songsong village (Songsong). Rota also functions as one of the four municipalities of the CNMI. History In 1521, the first European to see Rota was the lookout on Ferdinand Magellan's ship ''Victoria'', Lope Navarro. However, Magellan's armada of three ships did not stop until they reached Guam, so the first European to arrive in Rota (in 1524), was the Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano, who annexed it together with the rest of the Mariana Islands on behalf o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
