Alma

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Alma is a latin name which means "nourishing", and in spanish it means "soul".

Alma may refer to:

[edit] Places

• Alma Aachen (Germany), Liège (Belgium) and Maastricht (Netherlands) city alliance.

In Canada:

• Alma, Ontario, a small village in Ontario, Canada
• Alma, Quebec, a town in Quebec, Canada
• Alma, New Brunswick, a fishing village on the Bay of Fundy

In Crimea:

• Alma (river) and the site of the 1854 Battle of Alma

In Kazakhstan:

• Almaty, the largest city and former capital of Kazakhstan

In New Zealand:

• Alma, New Zealand, a small locality in the North Otago district of New Zealand

In Palestine:

• Alma, Palestine, a village in Palestine destroyed in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war

In the United States:

• Alma, Arkansas
• Alma, Colorado
• Alma, Georgia
• Alma, Illinois
• Alma, Kansas
• Alma, Michigan - site of Alma College
• Alma, Missouri
• Alma, Nebraska
• Alma, New York
• Alma, Texas
• Alma, Wisconsin, a city in Buffalo County
• Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, a town in Buffalo County
• Alma, Jackson County, Wisconsin, a town in Jackson County
• Alma Center, Wisconsin, a village in Jackson County

[edit] People

• Alma, an antagonist from the game F.E.A.R.
• Alma Baldwin, a character on the soap opera Coronation Street and one-time wife of Mike Baldwin
• Alma Cogan (1932-1966), British pop singer of the 1950s and '60s (See also Alma Cogan (novel))
• Alma Mahler (1879-1964), wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, Franz Werfel and subject of a song by Tom Lehrer
• Alma the Elder, a person in the Books of Mosiah and Alma, part of The Book of Mormon
• Alma the Younger, the son of Alma the Elder, namesake of the Book of Alma in The Book of Mormon
• Lawrence Alma-Tadema
• Alma Guillermoprieto, Mexican Journalist
• Alma Faeez bin Ali Khan

[edit] Other

• Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), an array of radio telescopes in Chile
• Alma (1891), an 1891-built scow schooner now preserved in San Francisco, California.
• A name for the wild apple, malus sieversii in Kazakh and Hungarian
• "Alma" is Spanish and Portuguese for soul
• Alma (novel), a novel by Oswald de Andrade, 1922
• The original title (since reissued under the name Alma Cogan (novel)) of a novel by Gordon Burn
• Almas (cryptozoology), a Mongolian name for wild man (singular), a cryptozoological species
• Alma-0, a programming language
• Alma (software tool), a software workshop for programmers
• ALMA Magazine, Spanish language magazine for the Hispanic community in the U.S.
• ALMA Awards, U.S. awards for Latinos performers
• Alma mater, a term of academia
• Alma is a monster in the Eggerland games.
• The Pont de l'Alma, a road tunnel in Paris, site of the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
• Alma street, A street name in Weston Super Mare, England