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Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland.

Alba or ALBA may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional characters

  • Alba (Darkstalkers), a character in the Japanese video game
  • Alba (The Time Traveler's Wife), a character in the novel by Audrey Niffenegger
  • Alba Meira, a character in the Japanese video game series King of Fighters
  • Alba Trueba, a character in the novel The House of the Spirits by Chilean author Isabel Allende
  • Quercus Alba, a character in the video game Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth

Video games

  • Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, a 2020 game developed by Ustwo Games

Films and television

  • Alba (film), a 2016 Ecuadorian film
  • BBC Alba, a Scottish Gaelic language digital television channel from the BBC
  • Alba (TV series), a Spanish drama television series

Literature

  • Alba (novel), a 1985 novel Daniel Odier
  • Alba (poetry), a genre of Occitan poetry

Music

  • Alba (Danish music ensemble)
  • Alba Musica Kyo, a music group founded by Toyohiko Satoh
  • "Alba", a song by Runrig from their 1987 album The Cutter and the Clan
  • Alba (Allbina Bolatqyzy Nazarbayeva), a Kazakh singer signed under Juz Entertainment

Businesses and organizations

Brands and enterprises

  • Alba (brand), a British consumer electronics brand and manufacturing company owned by Sainsbury's
  • Alba (watch), a sub-brand of Seiko Watch Corporation
  • ALBA, an American milk products company owned by the Hain Celestial Group
  • Alba Engineering, an Italian motor racing company co-founded by Giorgio Stirano
  • Alba Vineyard, a winery in New Jersey
  • Aluminium Bahrain, or AlBa, an aluminum producer in Bahrain

Schools and universities

  • ALBA Graduate Business School, a Greek academic institution
  • Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, (French: Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA));

Other organisations

  • Alba Party, a Scottish political party
  • ALBA, formerly Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, an intergovernmental organization
  • Autogestión Liberadora Buenos Aires, an Argentinian political party
  • Operation Alba, a multinational peacekeeping force sent to Albania in 1997

People

  • Alba (given name)
  • Alba (surname)

Places

Italy

  • Alba, Piedmont, a comune in the Province of Cuneo
  • Alba Adriatica, a comune in the province of Teramo, Abruzzo
  • Alba Fucens, an ancient town in the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo
  • Alba Longa, an ancient city in the Province of Rome, Lazio
  • Baldissero d'Alba, a comune in the Province of Cuneo, Piedmont
  • Diano d'Alba, a comune in the Province of Cuneo, Piedmont
  • Morro d'Alba, comune in the Province of Ancona, Marche
  • Republic of Alba, a French revolutionary municipality in Piedmont, 1798
  • Republic of Alba (1944), a short-lived state in Piedmont
  • Serralunga d'Alba, a comune in the Province of Cuneo, Piedmont
  • Vezza d'Alba, a comune in the Province of Cuneo, Piedmont

Romania

  • Alba County, a county in Transylvania
  • Alba Iulia, a city in Alba County, Transylvania
  • Alba, a village in Hudeşti Commune, Botoşani County
  • Alba, a village in Izvoarele Commune, Tulcea County
  • Alba (Șușița), a tributary of the Șușița in Vrancea County

Spain

  • Alba, Aragon, a municipio in the Province of Teruel
  • Alba de Cerrato, a municipio in the Province of Palencia
  • Alba de Tormes, a municipio in the Province of Salamanca, Castile and León
  • Alba de Yeltes, a municipio in the Province of Salamanca, Castile and León
  • Alba (Nalón), a tributary of the Nalón in the Redes Natural Park in Asturias

Ukraine

  • Cetatea Alba, a former Romanian name of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, a city and port
  • Fântâna Albă, now Bila Krynytsia, a village in Stary Vovchynets commune
  • Snake Island (Black Sea), known as Alba to the Romans

United States

Science and technology

Biology

  • A. alba (disambiguation), various species
  • Alba (rabbit), a genetically-modified glowing rabbit
  • Alba, a cultivar of Bergenia stracheyi
  • Alba, a cultivar of sage, Salvia officinalis
  • Alba, a grade of Sri Lankan cinnamon, Cinnamomum verum
  • Barn owl, Tyto alba, the common barn owl
  • Cattleya elongata f. alba, a Brazilian orchid variety
  • Isotheca alba, a species of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae
  • Linea alba (abdomen), Latin for white line, a fibrous structure that runs down the midline of the abdomen in humans and other vertebrates
  • Linea alba (cheek), Latin for white line, in dentistry refers to a horizontal streak on the buccal mucosa (inner surface of the cheek)
  • Quercus alba, the white oak, a species of tree
  • S. alba (disambiguation), various species
  • Ulmus × hollandica 'Alba', a hybrid elm tree

Other uses in science

  • ALBA (synchrotron), a Spanish synchrotron radiation facility
  • Alba Mons, a volcano on Mars
  • ALBA-1, a submarine communications cable between Cuba and Venezuela

Sport

  • Alba (shinty team), a Scottish composite rules shinty–hurling team
  • Alba Berlin, a German basketball club
  • S.C. Alba, a Portuguese football club

Transportation

Motor vehicles

  • Alba (1907 automobile), an Austrian vintage car
  • Alba (1913 automobile), a French vintage car
  • Alba (1952 automobile), a Portuguese car
  • Alba (motorcycle), a 1920s German motorcycle

Ships

  • SS Alba, a Panamanian ship wrecked off Cornwall, England, in 1938 and painted by Alfred Wallis
  • SS Alba, a Chilean ship wrecked in 1928

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Alba para niños

  • Alb, liturgical vestment in Christian churches
  • Albion, oldest name of the island of Great Britain
  • Alban (disambiguation)
  • Album (disambiguation)
  • Albus (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Alba
  • All pages with titles containing Alba
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