Sur

Sur, SUR or El Sur may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Films

• Sur (film), a 1988 Argentine film directed by Fernando Solanas
• Sur, a 1970 Mexican film directed by Gabriel Retes
• El Sur (film), a 1983 film by Víctor Erice, based on the novella by Adelaida García Morales
• , a 1992 film by Carlos Saura
• Sur – The Melody of Life, a 2002 Indian film directed by Tanuja Chandra

Literature

• "Sur" (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" (song), a 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) or sur, the seven notes of the Indian musical scale

Periodicals

• Sur (magazine), a former literary journal published in Buenos Aires
• El Sur (newspaper), a Chilean newspaper

Television channels

• ATV Sur, a TV channel in Arequipa, Peru
• Canal Sur, a TV channel in Andalusia, Spain
• Sur Televisora Itapúa, a TV channel in Encarnación, Paraguay
• Telesur, a Latin American TV channel
• Canal SUR (United States), a TV channel in the United States

Places

• Sur Empire, an empire in Northern India between 1538/1540 and 1556
• Sur State, a princely state of India merged with Idar State in 1821
• Sur (river), a river in Bavaria, Germany
• Súr, a village in Hungary
• Sur, Iran (disambiguation)
• Sur, Oman, a town in Oman
• Sur, Switzerland, a village
• Sur, Diyarbakır, a district and municipality of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey
• Tyre, Lebanon (Arabic: Ṣūr; Phoenician: á¹¢ur; Turkish: Sur), a city in Lebanon
• Shur (Bible) or Sur, a wilderness from the Book of Exodus

People

• Sur (poet) (c. 1483–c.1563), a blind Hindu saint, poet and musician
• Súr (chieftain) (died 955), Hungarian general
• Sur (tribe), a Pashtun tribe in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India

Science and technology

• Seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR), a statistical technique for analysing multivariate data
• Sulfonylurea receptor (SUR), the molecular target of sulfonylurea antidiabetic drugs
• Shell Update Release, codename of the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 operating system

Codes

• Soviet ruble (ISO 4217 code: SUR), the currency of the Soviet Union
• 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
• SS Sur, a Panamanian coaster in service 1955–65
• Solapur railway station in Maharashtra, India

Other uses

• Sur language, a minor Plateau language of Nigeria
• Sur offering, a burnt offering in Tibetan Buddhism
• Sur SC, a sports club based in Sur, Oman
• Sydney University Regiment, a regiment of the Australian Army
• Glossary of pre-Christian Lithuanian names#sur, a common stem in Lithuanian names

See also

• Big Sur (disambiguation)
• El Sur Ranch, California, US
• Sul
• Surr, a game played in India