Roland (disambiguation)
Roland (died 778) was a Frankish military leader in Charlemagne's service, and subject of the epic poem The Song of Roland.
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Roland may also refer to:
Places
- Rural Municipality of Roland, Manitoba Canada
- Roland, Manitoba, a village
- Roland, Arkansas, United States, a census-designated place
- Roland, Indiana, United States, an unincorporated community
- Roland, Iowa, United States, a city
- Roland, Oklahoma, United States, a town
- Roland, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
- Roland, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community
- Mount Roland (disambiguation)
- Lake Roland (disambiguation)
Music
- Roland (Lully), a 17th-century opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, and a libretto by Philippe Quinault
- Roland (Piccinni), an opera by Niccolò Piccinni
- "Roland", a song on the 2002 album Turn On the Bright Lights by the American band Interpol
- "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner", a 1978 song by Warren Zevon
Military
- Roland, the brand name of the Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft for a series of military aircraft flown during World War I
- MOWAG Roland, an armored personnel carrier
- Roland missile, a short-range air defence missile system, produced by French-German company Euromissile
- Roland Battalion, a German World War II unit in 1941
Businesses
- Roland Aircraft, a German aircraft manufacturer
- Roland Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, gear and sound cards
- Roland Foods Corporation, an American food product company
People
- Roland (name), a given name and family name
Fictional characters
- Roland Burton, in the TV series Army Wives
- Roland Deschain, in the Stephen King The Dark Tower novels
- Roland Jackson, in the 1997 animated TV show Extreme Ghostbusters
- Roland LeBay, in the Stephen King novel Christine
- Roland Rat, British children's TV puppet
- Roland, in the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions
- Roland (game character), a video game character from the 1980s
- Roland, a playable character featured in the video game Borderlands
Other uses
- Roland (statue), a type of statue sometimes found in German towns, depicting Roland
- Bremen Roland, a statue of Roland in Bremen, Germany
- "Roland" (The X-Files), an episode of the television series The X-Files
- Safir (cycling team), a Belgian professional cycling team known as Roland between 1986 and 1988
- RC Roland, a Ukrainian rugby club in Ivano-Frankivsk
- Rohrbach Roland, a 1920s German airliner
- Roland (train), an express train that ran in Germany, and at times also in Switzerland and Italy
- Roland Institute of Technology, Berhampur, Odisha, India
gollark: Self-driving cars should probably not be using the mobile/cell network just for communicating with nearby cars, since it adds extra latency and complexity over some direct P2P thing, and they can't really do things which rely on constant high-bandwidth networking to the internet generally, since they need to be able to not crash if they go into a tunnel or network dead zone or something.
gollark: My problem isn't *that* (5G apparently has improvements for more normal frequencies anyway), but that higher bandwidth and lower latency just... isn't that useful and worth the large amount of money for most phone users.
gollark: Personally I think 5G is pointless and overhyped, but eh.
gollark: It's a house using some sort of sci-fi-looking engines to take off, superimposed on the text "5G", with "London," and "is in the house." above and below it respectively.
gollark: Well, computer viruses can.
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