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 Sur ( ar, صُوْر, Ṣūr) is the capital city of Ash Sharqiyah South Governorate, and the former capital of Ash Sharqiyah Region in northeastern Oman, on the coast of the Gulf of Oman. It is located about southeast of the Omani capital Musc ...

, 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

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) 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 16th-century blind Bhakti saint, poet and musician *

Sur Dynasty The Sur Empire ( ps, د سرو امپراتورۍ, dë sru amparāturəi; fa, امپراطوری سور, emperâturi sur) was an Afghan dynasty which ruled a large territory in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent for nearly 16 yea ...

, 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) ''El Sur'' ("The South") is a 1983 drama film directed by the Spanish filmmaker Victor Erice, produced by Elias Querejeta, starring Icíar Bollaín as the adult main character. Written by Jose Luis Lopez Linares, it is based on Adelaida García ...

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 Adelaida García Morales (1945, in Badajoz, Spain – 22 September 2014, in Dos Hermanas, Spain) was a Spanish writer. Life and work Born in Badajoz, García Morales moved at the age of 13 to Seville, her parents' home town. She lived there for ...

, 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 Jaime Roos (born November 12, 1953 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan singer, composer and record producer. In 2000, he won a Silver Condor Award for Best Score Musician in El Amateur. He has French blood from his father's side. His grandfather migr ...

* Sur, a chapter in

Sindhi music Music from Sindh (), is sung and is generally performed in either the "Baits" or "Waee" styles. The Baits style is vocal music in Sanhoon (low voice) or Graham (high voice). Waee instrumental music is performed in a variety of ways using a s ...

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 auto ...

, 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 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)