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 Nile ...

, 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 Súr is a village in Komárom-Esztergom county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romani ...

, 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 Diyarbakı ...

, a historic district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey * Sur, Iran (disambiguation), 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 Sur ( rm, Sour) is a village and former municipality in the Sursés in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Bivio, Cunter, Marmorera, Mulegns, Riom-Parsonz, Salouf, ...

, 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, 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) 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 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 year ...

, 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 Nig ...

, 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 Mo ...

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 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 m ...

, 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 autono ...

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

Transport

Summer Beaver Airport Summer Beaver Airport is located southwest of the First Nations community of Nibinamik (Summer Beaver), Ontario, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to ...

(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 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, 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 burnt offering in Tibetan Buddhism *

Sur SC 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 ...

, a sports club based in Sur, Oman *

Sulfonylurea receptor In molecular biology, the sulfonylurea receptors (SUR) are membrane proteins which are the molecular targets of the sulfonylurea class of antidiabetic drugs whose mechanism of action is to promote insulin release from pancreatic beta cells. More ...

, or SUR, the molecular target of sulfonylurea antidiabetic drugs *

Sydney University Regiment Sydney University Regiment (SUR) is an officer-training regiment of the Australian Army Reserve. Its predecessor, the University Volunteer Rifle Corps, was raised in 1900 as a unit of the colonial New South Wales Defence Force. During the 20th ...

, or SUR, a regiment of the Australian Army * SUR - Standard Unit Rate (UK electricity and gas measurement)