Toba

Toba can be:

• T. O. B. A., the Theater Owners Booking Association, a major black vaudeville circuit.
• Toba City in Mie, Japan.
• Toba is the posthumous name for an Emperor of Japan.
• The Wade-Giles spelling of Tuoba, a major clan of the Xianbei
• Lake Toba, a lake in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and site of a devastating volcanic eruption 75,000 years ago
  • Toba catastrophe theory, modern human evolution was affected by a recent large volcanic event
• The fifth month of the Coptic calendar
• South American Indians Toba-Pilaga.