Alma

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Alma may refer to:

Places

• 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

• Crimea
  • Alma (river) and the site of the Battle of Alma (September 20, 1854)

• Kazakhstan
  • Alma-Ata or Almaty, until recently the capital of Kazakh,, whose name literally means "apple's father", and which (unsurprisingly) has what are genetically the oldest (by way of diversity) alma trees in the world.

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

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

• 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

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 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, the Book of Alma in the Book of Mormon is named after him.

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.
• Alma, or malus sieversii, the modern ancestor of the domesticated apple.
• "Alma" is Spanish for soul
• 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
• Book of Alma, part of the Book of Mormon
• Alma Awards, U.S. awards for Latinos performers
• Alma mater, a term of academia
• Alma is a monster in the Eggerland games.

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