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

• Garcia de Orta (1501 – 1568) Portuguese physician, herbalist and naturalist
• 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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