Orta

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Orta may refer to:

Places[]

  • Orta, Møre og Romsdal, an island in Aukra, Norway
  • Orta, Çankırı, a district of Çankırı Province, Turkey
  • Orta, a town near Rome which, in medieval contexts, may also be called Orte
  • Lake Orta, in north Italy
  • Orta di Atella, comune in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania
  • Orta Nova, town and comune from Foggia, in the region of Apulia, in southern Italy
  • Orta San Giulio, a town on Lake Orta
  • Orta, Tavas, populates place in Denizli Province, Turkey

People[]

  • Jorge Orta (born 1950), Mexican Major League Baseball player
  • Lucy Orta, a British contemporary artist
  • Ramsey Orta, a friend of Eric Garner's who recorded on his cell phone the police murdering Garner

Other uses[]

  • Orta (Janissary), a military rank of Janissaries
  • Orta, a fictional Italian village in the film Captain Carey, U.S.A.
  • Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA), an organizational structure established in federal laboratories though the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-480)-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-480)
  • Panzer Dragoon Orta, the describer and heroine of the fourth game in the Panzer Dragoon series
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