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Sultan Pulalun
Sultan Mohammad Pulalun, also written Muhammad Fadl Pulalun, was Sultan of Sulu from 1844 to 1862, signing the 1851 treaty incorporating the sultanate into the Spanish monarchy.
Sultan Pur Majra
Sultan Pur Majra is a census town (code 063948) in North West Delhi, India, population 181,554 in 2011, about 45 percent Scheduled Caste, and the namesake of Delhi assembly constituency No. 10 (SC).
Sultan Qaboos Award for Culture, Arts and Literature
The Sultan Qaboos Award for Culture, Arts and Literature (جائزة السلطان قابوس للثقافة والفنون والآداب) is an Omani state prize, established in 2011 and honoring intellectuals, artists, and writers.
Sultan Rahi (سلطان راہی)
Sultan Rahi (سلطان راہی), also known as Muhammad Sultan, was a prolific Pakistani film actor who dominated Punjabi cinema with more than 700 titles before his death in 1996.
Sultan Said Khan
Sultan Said Khan (سلطان سعید خان) was the founding khan of the Yarkent Khanate, ruling from 1514 until his death in 1533 and succeeded by his son Abdurashid Khan.
Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi
Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, known as Salar-e-Millat, was an Indian politician from Hyderabad who led AIMIM for over three decades and represented Hyderabad in the Lok Sabha for five consecutive terms.
Sultan Salahuddin Shah of Selangor
Sultan Salahuddin Shah of Selangor, born Raja Lumu and also written Sultan Salehuddin Shah, was the first Sultan of Selangor, installed by the Sultan of Perak in 1766.
Sultan Shah of Khwarazm
Sultan Shah of Khwarazm (سلطانشاه), died 1193, was a claimant to the Khwarazmshah title whose twenty-year rivalry with his brother Tekish divided the family's lands.
Sultan Sharif ul-Hashim
Sharif ul-Hashim, the regal name of the Arab Muslim Sayyid Abu Bakr, founded the Sultanate of Sulu in the southern Philippines and reigned as its first sultan.
Sultan Syarif Abdurrahman al-Qadri
Sultan Syarif Abdurrahman al-Qadri, also written Syarif Abdurrahman Alkadrie, was a Hadhrami-descended ruler who founded the city of Pontianak and the Kadriah Sultanate in West Kalimantan, Borneo, in 1771 and ruled until 1808.
Sultan Tengah
Sultan Tengah (Ibrahim Ali Omar Shah) was a Brunei prince appointed the first and only Sultan of Sarawak in the late 1590s by his brother, Sultan Abdul Jalilul Akbar.
Sultan Thaha Saifuddin
Sultan Thaha Saifuddin, also spelled Syaifuddin, was the last sultan of Jambi on Sumatra, fighting Dutch colonial rule from 1855 until his death in 1904.
Sultan Veled
Sultan Veled (سلطان ولد), born Baha al-Din Muhammad, was a Sufi shaikh and poet of thirteenth-century Anatolia, the son of Rumi, who turned his father's disciples into the organized Mevlevi order.
Sultan Walad
Sultan Walad (سلطان ولد), born Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad, was a Persian Sufi poet, son of Rumi and founder of the Mevlevi order, dying in 1312.
Sultan Ya'qub
Sultan Ya'qub, a son of Uzun Hasan, was the Aq Qoyunlu sultan of Iran and eastern Anatolia from 1478 to 1490, ruling from Tabriz at the height of Aq Qoyunlu power.
Sultan Zainal Abidin
Sultan Zainal Abidin is the regnal name borne by several sultans of Samudera Pasai, the Muslim state on Sumatra's north coast lasting from 1267 to 1524.
Sultan's Pool
Sultan's Pool (Hebrew Brechat HaSultan; Arabic Birket es-Sultan) is a large reservoir in the Ben-Hinnom Valley west of Jerusalem's Old City, dating to Hasmonean times and now an open-air concert venue.
Sultana (grape)
Sultana, or Sultanina (Thompson Seedless in the US), is a white seedless Vitis vinifera grape of Turkish origin, the world's most widely planted light-skinned variety, used mainly for raisins called sultanas.
Sultana (steamboat)
The Sultana, also known as SS Sultana, was a Mississippi River steamboat that exploded near Memphis in April 1865, killing about 1,547 people in America's worst maritime disaster.
Sulţānah
Sulţānah (Sultanah) is a populated place in Medina Region, Saudi Arabia, near Madinah; GeoNames ID 101760, listed population 946,697, elevation about 597 m, hot desert (BWh) climate.
Sultanate of Aceh
The Sultanate of Aceh (Kesultanan Aceh Darussalam) was an Islamic sultanate at the northern tip of Sumatra, founded by Sultan Ali Mughayat Syah in 1496.
Sultanate of Agadez
The Sultanate of Agadez, also called the Sultanate of Aïr or Asben, was a Tuareg sultanate founded around 1405 at Agadez in present-day Niger, controlling trans-Saharan caravan trade.
Sultanate of Aussa
The Sultanate of Aussa, also written Awsa, was an Afar-ruled Muslim state in the eastern Ethiopian lowlands around the Awash River, under the Mudaito dynasty from 1734.
Sultanate of Bambao
The Sultanate of Bambao was one of the sultanates of Grande Comore in the Comoros and, alongside Itsandra, one of the island's two most powerful states before French colonization.
Sultanate of Bangkalan
The Sultanate of Bangkalan (Kesultanan Bangkalan) was an Islamic state on the western end of Madura island, East Java, abolished by the Dutch colonial government in 1882.
Sultanate of Banjar
The Sultanate of Banjar (Kesultanan Banjar) was an Islamic sultanate in southeastern Borneo, founded at Banjarmasin in 1526 by Sultan Suriansyah and abolished by the Dutch in 1860.
Sultanate of Banten
The Sultanate of Banten (Kesultanan Banten) was an Islamic sultanate at the western tip of Java, founded in 1526 by Maulana Hasanuddin and abolished in 1813.
Sultanate of Barawa
Barawa, also spelled Brava or Baraawe, was a Swahili port city-state on the southern Somali coast about 125 miles south of Mogadishu, ruled by a council of elders rather than a king.
Sultanate of Barus
The Sultanate of Barus (Kesultanan Barus) was an Islamic kingdom on the west coast of North Sumatra, Indonesia, in a port famed for camphor and gold.
Sultanate of Brunei
The Sultanate of Brunei (Kesultanan Brunei) is a Malay sultanate on the coast of Borneo, founded in the 14th century and at its height under Sultan Bolkiah (1485 to 1524).