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.
- 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.
- RoLand is the old name for the surface science package of the Rosetta spacecraft, now known as Philae.
- Roland, Iowa is a place in the State of Iowa in the United States of America.
- Roland of Gilead, the Gunslinger, is the main character in Stephen King's Dark Tower series of novels.
- Roland is also the English (French, German, Dutch,...) equivalent of the name Orlando in Italian.
- Roland was the name a of road bicycle racing team.
- 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.
- Roland is a song by the band Interpol off their album Turn On The Bright Lights.
- Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner is a song by Warren Zevon..
- Roland were a series of WWI fighter aircraft produced by LFG
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