Roland (disambiguation)
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Roland was a
Frankish seneschal in
Charlemagne's service, killed in the
Battle of Roncevaux Pass in
778. He is known due to the epic poem
La Chanson de Roland.
*The
Roland Corporation is a manufacturer of
electronic musical instruments.
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Roland is short-range air defence missile system, produced by French-German
Euromissile.
*The MAN
Roland Inc. (Usa)/MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG (Germany) is the world's second largest printing systems manufacturer and the world's market leader in web offset printing.
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RoLand is the old name for the surface science package of the
Rosetta spacecraft, now known as
Philae.
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Roland, Iowa is a place in the
State of
Iowa in the
United States of America.
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Roland of Gilead, the Gunslinger, is the main character in
Stephen King's Dark Tower series of novels.
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Roland is also the English (French, German, Dutch,...) equivalent of the name
Orlando in Italian.
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Roland was the name a of
road bicycle racing team.
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Roland is also the name of a town located in the former
Great Kingdom, in the fictional
Dungeons and Dragons World of Greyhawk campaign world.
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Roland is a song by the band
Interpol off their album
Turn On The Bright Lights.
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Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner is a song by
Warren Zevon..
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Roland were a series of
WWI fighter aircraft produced by
LFG