Rotte

Rotte can refer to:

Rotte (river)

The Rotte is a river in the Rhine-Maas-delta in the Netherlands. The Rotte is the namesake of the city of Rotterdam: the city was founded in the 13th Century when a dam was built along the river.

Etymology

The river was originally named Rotta, from rot, 'muddy' and a, 'water', thus 'muddy water'.

Geography

It rises in Moerkapelle in the so-called Green Heart. It used to drain the Zuidplas lake until it was reclaimed in 1840.

It flows past Bleiswijk and Bergschenhoek; and then the village of Hillegersberg, which was built on a sand dune and was one of the few places in the marsh land that could be permanently settled before the dikes were constructed. In the churchyard there are the ruins of a 13th Century castle from, whose origins probably date back to times of the Roman Empire. Originally it flowed into the Nieuwe Maas in Rotterdam; however, the lower reach of the river was dammed off, and the water now flows to Nieuwe Maas via several man-made canals.

On the outskirts of Rotterdam, the Rotte merges with the Crooswijksesingel. Here we find an old factory building of the Heineken brewery, which was brought here in the city due to the efforts of Lodewijk Pincoffs.

Rota (formation)

A rota (Russian: Рота, German: Rotte) is an infantry or cavalry unit. In Poland it was known increasingly from the 16th century by the alternative name of Chorągiew.

After about 1630, the term was used to describe a file of 6-10 soldiers in formations (especially infantry) in the Polish army raised on the Foreign model.

This term is used in the Bulgarian Army, the Czech Army, the Slovak Army, and the Russian Army and means company.

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