Junta
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Junta is a Spanish word meaning committee (specifically a board of directors). A military coup in Latin America would often install a ruling junta, so the term acquired the specific English meaning of military junta.
Additionally, it may refer to:
- Junta (album), an album by Phish
- Junta (game), a board game from West End Games
- Junta (Habsburg), an administrative body ruled in personal union with the Spanish Habsburgs
- Junta (Peninsular War) the name chosen by several local administrations in the Napoleonic Era
- Primera Junta, the first Argentinian government after the 1810 May Revolution
- Government Juntas of Chile some of the several executive government created to rule Chile during its history
- Junta Grande, the executive government created by the Primera Junta.
- Junta, a slang term meaning "people" or "group" commonly used around Colleges and Universities in India; pronounced "Jun-tah" i.e. with the "J" sound and not the "H" sound of the Spanish word "junta", derived from the Hindi word Janata or from the Arabic word Jund, military, (Arabic جند, "the military ")
Junta may also be used for:
- Military dictatorship, a form of government wherein the political power resides with the military
- The jury that decided the Valladolid debate
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