Viola (disambiguation) explained

The viola is a stringed musical instrument related to the violin.Viola also may refer to:

Guitars

Viola is a term for several Portuguese and Brazilian regional folk guitars, frequently called simply "viola" in their respective regions:

• Portugal:
  • Viola amarantina, a 5-course, 10-string guitar
  • Viola beiroa, a small harp guitar with twelve strings
  • Viola braguesa, a 5-course, 10-string guitar
  • Viola da terra, a 5-course, 12- or 15-string guitar
  • Viola de arame, a 5-course, 9-string guitar from Madeira
  • Viola da Terceira, a 6-course, 15-string guitar from the Azores
  • Viola toeira, a 5-course, 12-string guitar
• Brazil:
  • Viola caipira, a 5-course, 10-string Brazilian guitar
  • Viola de cocho a 5-course, 5-string Brazilian guitar
  • Viola sertaneja, a 5-course, 10-string Brazilian guitar

Organisms

• Viola (butterfly), a genus of skipper butterflies
• Viola (plant), a genus of flowering plants, including violets and pansies

Places

United States

• Viola, Arkansas, a town
• Viola, California, an unincorporated community
• Viola, Delaware, a town
• Viola, Georgia, an unincorporated community
• Viola, Idaho, an unincorporated community
• Viola, Illinois, a village
• Viola, Iowa, an unincorporated community
• Viola, Kansas, a city
• Viola, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Viola, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
• Viola, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Viola, New York, a hamlet
• Viola, Tennessee, a town
• Viola, Marion County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Viola, Marshall County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Viola, Wisconsin, a village
• Viola Township (disambiguation), various townships
• Lake Viola (Florida), a lake in Highlands County, Florida

Italy

• Viola, Piedmont, a comune in the province of Cuneo
• Lago Viola, a small lake in Lombardy

People

• Viola (given name), a female given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
• Viola (surname)
• Viola (singer) (born 1976), stage name of Italian singer Violante Placido
• Viola (footballer) (born 1969), Brazilian footballer Paulo Sergio Rosa
• Viola, pen name of American poet Laura M. Hawley Thurston (1812-1842)
• Paulinho da Viola, Brazilian musician born Paulo César Batista de Faria in 1942

Military

• Viola (trawler), an English steam trawler built in 1906
• HMS Viola, an Aubrietia-class sloop launched in 1916
• Viola, the original name of HMS Legion (1914) a Laforey-class destroyer, laid down in 1912

Other uses

• Typhoon Viola, various typhoons, a tropical storm and a tropical depression
• Viola (opera), an unfinished opera by Bedřich Smetana
• 1076 Viola, an asteroid
• Viol@, a 1998 Italian erotic drama film
• Viola Reggio Calabria, an Italian basketball team
• ViolaWWW, an American web browser
• I Viola, a nickname of the Italian football club ACF Fiorentina
• Viola–Jones object detection framework
• Berimbau viola, the smallest berimbau in the berimbau ensembles

See also

• Viol, a family of stringed musical instruments
  • Viola da Gamba, another name for the viol
• Violin (disambiguation)
• Voila (disambiguation)
• Violet (disambiguation)
• Violeta (disambiguation)
• Violetta (disambiguation)
• Violette (disambiguation)