- In Spanish , ''junta'', literally "joint (meeting)", is used for various collegial bodies.
- ---During the Habsburg rule, ''junta'' was used for various regular administrative bodies in Iberia and other European countries (including the Low Countries , where the French version ''jointe'' was also in official use) ruled -in personal union- by the Spanish crown, and even was maintained in some cases after those were divided in territories brought under the imperial Austrian branch of the dynasty
- ---In the Napoleonic era, ''junta'' was also the name chosen by several local administrations forming in Spain during the Peninsula War as a patriotic alternative to the official administration topped by the French invaders.
- ---The Primera Junta and Junta Grande were executive governments in Argentina short after the May Revolution for independence.
- ---In Spanish America , the '' Criollo '' ''juntas'' were formally loyal to Ferdinand VII Of Spain , but in the power void, they became actually independent, preparing the Independence Of Spanish America .
- ---In modern Spain ''Juntas'' exist in some of the reatively recent Autonomous Governments Of Spain
--''Junta'' of Andalusia
--''Junta'' of Extremadura
--''Xunta'' (Galician form) of Galicia
- In music:
- ---'' Junta '' is an album by the popular U.S. band Phish (though pronounced jun-tah as if it were originally an English word).
- ---Junta is a progressive metal band based out of Union City, New Jersey
- ---"Jet Set Junta" is a song by the influential, though little known, UK band The Monochrome Set . As in the Phish album, the word is pronounced phonetically.
- ---The Junta is a punk rock club in Sacramento, California.
:For the Hindi designation for the people or the common populace, see Janata .''
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