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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), 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) Sur, Iran is a village in Lorestan Province, Iran. Sur or Sowr ( fa, سور) in Iran may also refer to: * Sur, Fars * Sur, Hamadan * Sur, Isfahan * Sur, Darmian, South Khorasan Province * Sur, Qaen, South Khorasan Province See also

* Sur (disa ...
, 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 S ...
, 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 Raj, British era, it was a part of the Mahi Kantha Agency, within the Gujarat Division of Bombay Presidency. History Idar S ...
, a princely state of India merged with Idar State in 1821 *
Tyre, Lebanon Tyre (; ar, صور, translit=Ṣūr; phn, 𐤑𐤓, translit=Ṣūr, Greek ''Tyros'', Τύρος) is a city in Lebanon, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, though in medieval times for some centuries by just a tiny pop ...
(Arabic: صور, Ṣūr; Phoenician: צור, Ṣur; Turkish: Sur), a city in the South Governorate of Lebanon


People

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Sur (Pashtun tribe) Sur ( ps, , lit=red), also known as Suri, Zur and Zuri (), are a historical Pashtun tribe from among the Lodi living primarily in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan. The founder of the Suri Empire in India, Sher Shah Suri, belonged to the Sur t ...
, 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 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) 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 on ...
'', 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)


Television

* Canal Sur, 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 (National Rail station code SUR), London, England


Other uses

* SUR, the ISO code for the Soviet rouble, the currency of the Soviet Union * Seemingly unrelated regressions, 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, Washington, that sells kitchenware including cookware, cutlery, cooks' tools, small electrics, tabletop and linens, bakeware, glassware and bar, housewares, food, and outdoo ...
, 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)


See also

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South (disambiguation) South is a cardinal direction or compass point. South or The South may also refer to: Geography * Global South, the developing nations of the world * South (lunar crater) * South (Martian crater) * Southern England ("The South") * Southern Uni ...
*
Suriname Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north ...
* Surr, a game played in India * * {{Disambiguation, geo