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Alma, Victoria

Alma is a locality in Victoria, Australia, along the Maryborough – St Arnaud Road, west of Maryborough. In the , Alma and the surrounding area had a population of 195.

Alma began as a gold-mining settlement and was named after the Battle of Alma in the Crimean War. It was surveyed in 1860, the Post Office opening on 1 July 1861. (closed 1969), and proclaimed in 1891. It had a peak population of 2,109.

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