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 i ...

, in the Marianas archipelago *

Rota (volcano) Rota is a stratovolcano located in the western part of Nicaragua. See also * List of volcanoes in Nicaragua References

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, 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 ( 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 com ...

People

* Rota (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *

Rota Waitoa Rota Waitoa (? – 22 July 1866) was a New Zealand Anglican clergyman, of Māori descent. Waitoa identified with the Ngati Raukawa iwi. He was born in Waitoa, Waikato, New Zealand. Waitoa's ordination as deacon at St Paul's, Auckland, on 2 ...

(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 is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

* ''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 ind ...

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 soldier ...

, an infantry or cavalry unit *

Reach Out To Asia Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development ( ar, مؤسسة قطر) 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. Qatar Founda ...

, 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 Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar (Portuguese for '' Tobias de Aguiar Ostensive Patrols'') are patrols, mostly known by their acronym ROTA. They are the special force of the São Paulo Military Police, which focus on flexibility and fast reacti ...

, 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 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, 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 the world. ...

, 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 This list of prehistoric sea cucumbers is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all Genus, genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be holothuroidea, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commo ...

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 be ...

, 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 t ...

, 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 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...

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 ci ...

'' (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 dolla ...

* ''

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 th ...

* includes the ideogram