What is "vania"

Vânia or Vania may refer to:

• Vânia Abreu (born 1967), singer and performer from Brazil
• Vânia Bastos (born 1956), Brazilian singer
• Vânia Fernandes (born 1985), Portuguese singer
• Vânia Ishii (born 1973), female judoka from Brazil
• Vania King (born 1989), female tennis player from the United States
• Anna Vania Mello (born 1979), female volleyball player from Italy
• Vania Rossi (born 1983), professional cyclocross bicycle racer from Italy
• Vânia Silva (born 1980), female hammer thrower from Portugal
• Vania Stambolova (born 1983), Bulgarian athlete

Vania is a benthic foram from the upper Paleocene of Turkey with a large discoidal test up to 6.5mm in diameter. The microspheric test begins with a short planispiral stage, later chambers spreading successively from flabeilliform (fan-shaped) to reniform (kidney-shaped) and finally annular. The interior is subdivided by radial primary beams intercalated with secondary beams. The wall finely agglutinated, imperforate; aperture, two alternating rows of pores on the periphery.