Sur or SUR or El Sur (Spanish "the South") may refer to:

Geography

* Sur or

Shur (Bible) Shur, sometimes rendered in translations as Sur, is a location mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. James K. Hoffmeier believes that the 'way of Shur' was located along the Wadi Tumilat — an arable strip of land to the east of the Nil ...

, the wilderness of Sur/Shur from the Book of Exodus *

Sur (river) Sur is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It flows into the Salzach south of Laufen. See also *List of rivers of Bavaria A list of rivers of Bavaria, Germany: A * Aalbach * Abens * Ach * Afferbach *Affinger Bach *Ailsbach * Aisch * Aiterach *Alpba ...

, a river of Bavaria, Germany * Súr, a village in Hungary * Sur, a district of the city of Diyarbakir in Turkey *

Sur, Diyarbakır Sur is one of the central districts of Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is a historic place situated inside the Diyarbakır Fortress. The district takes its name from the castle walls ( tr, sur). Background Sur district was founded in Diyarbak� ...

, 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 Big Sur () is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast of California between Carmel and San Simeon, where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. It is frequently praised for its dramatic scenery. Big Sur ...

, a coastline of California *

Sur State Idar State, also known as Edar, was a princely state located in present-day Gujarat state of India. During the British era, it was a part of the Mahi Kantha Agency, within the Gujarat Division of Bombay Presidency. History Idar State was a pr ...

, a princely state of India merged with Idar State in 1821 *

Tyre, Lebanon Tyre (; ar, صور, translit=Ṣūr; phn, 𐤑𐤓, translit=Ṣūr, Greek language, Greek ''Tyros'', Τύρος) is a city in Lebanon, one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, t ...

(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) Surdas (IAST: Sūr, Devanagari: सूर) was a 16th-century blind Hindu devotional poet and singer, who was known for his works written in praise of Krishna, the supreme lord. He was a Vaishnava devotee of Lord Krishna, and he was also a ...

, a 16th-century blind Bhakti saint, poet and musician * Sur Dynasty, Pashtun Dynasty which ruled northern India between 1540 and c. 1555 *

Sur language Sur (Nsur), or Tapshin, is a minor Plateau language of Tapshin village in Bauchi State, Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Ni ...

, 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 José Ignacio Gabriel Jorge Retes Balzaretti (March 25, 1947 – April 20, 2020) was a Mexican film director, writer, producer, and actor. His 1977 film ''Paper Flowers (1977 film), Paper Flowers'' was entered into the 28th Berlin International Fi ...

El Sur (film) ''El Sur'' ("The South") is a 1983 in film, 1983 drama film directed by the Spaniards, Spanish Film director, filmmaker Victor Erice, produced by Elias Querejeta, starring Icíar Bollaín as the adult main character. Written by Jose Luis Lopez Lina ...

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 ''Sur – The Melody of Life'' is a 2002 Hindi musical film starring Lucky Ali and Gauri Karnik in the main leads. Its co-stars are Simone Singh, Achint Kaur, Ehsaan Khan, Divya Dutta, Nitin, and Harsh Vashisht. This movie is loosely based ...

'', 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 Svara or swara (Devanagari: स्वर, generally pronounced as ''swar'') is a Sanskrit word that connotes simultaneously a breath, a vowel, the sound of a musical note corresponding to its name, and the successive steps of the octave or '' ...

(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)

Television

Canal Sur Canal Sur ('South Channel') is part of Radio y Televisión de Andalucía (RTVA), the public broadcasting company of Andalusia. It was created by means of the devolved powers given to this region by an Act of Parliament in its statute of autonom ...

, TV channel in Andalusia, Spain * TeleSUR, a Latin-American TV channel

Transport

* Summer Beaver Airport (IATA airport code SUR), southwest of the First Nations community of Nibinamik, Ontario, Canada *

Surbiton railway station Surbiton is a suburban neighbourhood in South West London, within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (RBK). It is next to the River Thames, southwest of Charing Cross. Surbiton was in the historic county of Surrey and since 1965 it ha ...

(National Rail station code SUR), London, England

Other uses

* SUR, the ISO code for the

Soviet rouble The ruble or rouble (russian: рубль) was the currency of the Soviet Union, introduced in 1922, replacing the Imperial Russian ruble. One ruble was divided into 100 kopecks ( – ''kopeyka'', ''kopeyki''). Soviet banknotes and coins were pr ...

, the currency of the Soviet Union *

Seemingly unrelated regressions In econometrics, the seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) or seemingly unrelated regression equations (SURE) model, proposed by Arnold Zellner in (1962), is a generalization of a linear regression model that consists of several regression equatio ...

, or SUR, a statistical technique for analysing multivariate data * SS ''Sur'', a Panamanian coaster in service 1955–65 *

Sur La Table Sur La Table, Inc. is a privately held retail company based in Seattle, Seattle, Washington, that sells kitchenware including cookware, cutlery, cooks' tools, small electrics, tabletop and linens, bakeware, glassware and bar, housewares, food, a ...

, an American kitchenware company *

Sur offering A sur offering is a Tibetan Buddhist practice in which a mixture of flour, sweets and dairy products, sometimes with additional valuable or aromatic substances, is consecrated and placed in a fire or burned as incense{{fact, date=July 2022. The res ...

, 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)