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) 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 Mus ...

, 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 ha ...

, 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 (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 ...

, 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 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, 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 counties of England, historic county of ...

(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, 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)