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USAGE: Literature, Bosnian
PRONOUNCED: awl-MIR-ə
OTHER LANGUAGES: Edelmira (Spanish)

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Meanings and history of the name Almira

Variant of ELMIRA. Handel used it for the title character in his opera 'Almira, Queen of Castile' (1705).
Can be a Bosnian feminine form of AL-AMIR.

Famous real-life people named Almira

Almira Skripchenko (1976- ), notable chess player.
Almira S. Steele, teacher and missionary who founded the South's first African American orphanage in Chattanooga, TN.

Almira in song, story & screen

Almira Gulch, strict neighbor of Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, and Dorothy Gale in "The Wizard of Oz". She is the Wicked Witch's Kansas counterpart.