Volta

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Volta may refer to:

[edit] Rivers and lakes

• Lake Volta in Ghana
• Burkina Faso, the country formerly named Upper Volta
• The Volta River, consisting of the:
  • Black Volta
  • Red Volta
  • White Volta

[edit] Other

• Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist and inventor of the electric battery; the Volta Prize in association with the Academie Francaise, the Alessandro Volta Foundation, and its Volta Conference (an interwar cycle of cultural meetings) were named after him
• Volta (crater), a crater on the moon named after Alessandro Volta
• Volta, a 2007 album by Björk
• Toyota Alessandro Volta, a hybrid concept vehicle named after the physicist
• The Mars Volta, an American musical group
• Lavolta ("The Volta"), a Renaissance dance for couples
• Volta a Portugal, an annual professional road bicycle race in Portugal
• Volta a Catalunya, an annual professional road bicycle race in Catalonia, Spain
• Volta, a Swedish brand of vacuum cleaners.
• Volta, the name for a change in subject matter or "turning point" in a sonnet, from Italian for "turn".
• Volta, an Estonian company aimed mainly on electric motor and generator manufacturing.
• Volta, a 2004 Philippine movie starring Ai-Ai de las Alas and was directed by Wenn V. Deramas.
  • Volta (TV series), a 2008 Philippine TV series based from its 2004 movie
• Volta, a loan origination platform developed by Cology, a technology company located in Scottsdale, Arizona.
• Volta, a common step in the latin American dance, Samba.
• Volta, a web development toolset by Microsoft
• The Volta Electric Theatre, Ireland's first stationary cinema, closed 1948.