Sur
Sur or SUR or El Sur (Spanish "the South") may refer to:
Geography
- Sur or Shur (Bible), the wilderness of Sur/Shur from the Book of Exodus
- Sur (river), a river of Bavaria, Germany
- Súr, a village in Hungary
- Sur, a district of the city of Diyarbakir in Turkey
- Sur, Diyarbakır, a historic district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey
- Sur, Iran (disambiguation), places in Iran
- Sur, Oman, the easternmost major town in Oman
- Sur, Switzerland, a village in the canton of Grisons
- Big Sur, a coastline of California
- Sur State, a princely state of India merged with Idar State in 1821
- Tyre, Lebanon (Arabic: صور, Ṣūr; Phoenician: צור, Ṣur; Turkish: Sur), a city in the South Governorate of Lebanon
People
- Sur (Pashtun tribe), a Pashtun tribe in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India
- Sur (poet), a 16th-century blind Bhakti saint, poet and musician
- Sur Dynasty, Pashtun Dynasty which ruled northern India between 1540 and c. 1555
- Sur language, a minor Plateau language of Nigeria
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
- Sur (film), a 1988 Argentine film directed by Fernando Solanas
- Sur, a 1970 Mexican film directed by Gabriel Retes
- El Sur (film) 1983 film by Víctor Erice, based on the novella by Adelaida García Morales
- Los Cuentos de Borges: El Sur (film) 1992 film by Carlos Saura
- Sur – The Melody of Life, a 2002 Indian film directed by Tanuja Chandra
Literature
- "Sur" (short story), a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "El Sur" (story) ("The South"), a short story by Jorge Luis Borges
- El Sur, a novella by Adelaida García Morales, basis of the film El Sur
Music
- "Sur" (tango), well known tango song composed by Homero Manzi and Aníbal Troilo
- Sur, a 1987 album by Uruguayan singer Jaime Roos
- Sur, a chapter in Sindhi music and poetry
- Svara (स्वर), sometimes spelled sur, the seven notes of the Indian musical scale
Periodicals
- Sur (magazine), former literary journal published in Buenos Aires, backed by Victoria Ocampo
- El Sur (newspaper)
Transport
- Summer Beaver Airport (IATA airport code SUR), southwest of the First Nations community of Nibinamik, Ontario, Canada
- Surbiton railway station (National Rail station code SUR), London, England
Other uses
- SUR, the ISO code for the Soviet rouble, the currency of the Soviet Union
- Sur (currency), the proposed common currency of Brazil and Argentina
- Seemingly unrelated regressions, or SUR, a statistical technique for analysing multivariate data
- SS Sur, a Panamanian coaster in service 1955–65
- Sur La Table, an American kitchenware company
- Sur offering, a burnt offering in Tibetan Buddhism
- Sur SC, a sports club based in Sur, Oman
- Sulfonylurea receptor, or SUR, the molecular target of sulfonylurea antidiabetic drugs
- Sydney University Regiment, or SUR, a regiment of the Australian Army
- SUR - Standard Unit Rate (UK electricity and gas measurement)
See also
- South (disambiguation)
- Suriname
- Surr, a game played in India
- All pages with titles beginning with Sur
- All pages with titles containing Sur
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