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Sultanate of Sumenep
The Sumenep Sultanate was a kingdom on Madura island, East Java, Indonesia, traditionally founded in 1269 and abolished by the Dutch in the late 19th century.
Sultanate of Tadjoura
The Sultanate of Tadjoura was an Afar sultanate at the port of Tadjoura in present-day Djibouti, founded in the early 1600s and absorbed into French Somaliland.
Sultanate of Tazerwalt
The Sultanate of Tazerwalt (Tashelhit: ⵜⴰⵥⵔⵡⴰⵍⵜ; also Tazeroualt) was a maraboutic state founded in the seventeenth century in southern Morocco's Sus region, ruled from Iligh by the descendants of the saint Sidi Ahmad u Musa.
Sultanate of Ternate
The Sultanate of Ternate (Kesultanan Ternate) was an Islamic sultanate on Ternate island in North Maluku, Indonesia, founded in 1257 and dominant in the eastern spice trade.
Sultanate of Tidore
The Sultanate of Tidore (Kesultanan Tidore) was one of the two great rival sultanates of the Moluccas alongside Ternate, first ruled by Sultan Jamaluddin from 1495 to 1512.
Sultanate of Tuggurt
The Sultanate of Tuggurt was an oasis state in southeastern Algeria, ruled by the Banu Jallab dynasty from the fifteenth century until the French conquest in 1854.
Sultanate of Witu
The Sultanate of Witu, also spelled Vitu and known as Wituland, was a Swahili Muslim sultanate on the coast of present-day Kenya, founded in the mid-1800s.
Sultanate of Women
The Sultanate of Women (Turkish: Kadınlar Saltanatı) was a period of Ottoman history, roughly the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries, when the sultan's mother and chief consort exercised exceptional political power.
Sultanate of Yogyakarta
The Sultanate of Yogyakarta (Kesultanan Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat) is a Javanese monarchy founded in 1755 by the Giyanti Treaty, which divided Mataram between Yogyakarta and Surakarta.
Sultanate of Zanzibar
Sultanate of Zanzibar (1856–1964), also called the Busaidi sultanate: Omani Arab monarchy on the Swahili coast, capital moved from Muscat in 1832, British protectorate 1890, ended by the 1964 revolution and union with Tanganyika as Tanzania.
Sultanbay Rakhmanov
Sultanbay Rakhmanov (Султанбай Сабурович Рахманов), Soviet super-heavyweight weightlifter born 1950 in Turtkul, Uzbekistan; 1980 Moscow Olympic champion (+110 kg, 440 kg total), world champion 1979 and 1980, later disabled-sports association president.
Sultanganj Buddha
The Sultanganj Buddha is an over-life-size cast copper standing Buddha made in India between 500 and 700, unearthed in 1861 or 1862 and shown in Birmingham since 1867.
Sultanhani inscription
The Sultanhani inscription is a Hieroglyphic Luwian text on a stone base and stele found near Sultanhanı in Kayseri province, Turkey, dedicated to the god Tarhunza by Sarwatiwara, a vassal of King Wasusarma of Tabal.
Sultanmakhmut Toraighyrov
Sultanmakhmut Toraighyrov (Сұлтанмахмұт Торайғыров, 1893–1920) was a Kazakh poet, novelist, and enlightenment democrat who died of tuberculosis at 26, leaving two novels, including Qamar sulu, and influential socially themed poetry.
Sultans of Swing
"Sultans of Swing" is Dire Straits' 1978 debut single, written by Mark Knopfler about a South London Dixieland pub band; it reached No. 4 in the US and No. 8 in the UK.
Sultantepe
Sultantepe is a large settlement mound in the Urfa plain of southern Turkey, about 10 miles from Şanlıurfa on the road to Harran, excavated in 1951 and 1952.
Sultantepe tablets
The Sultantepe tablets, also known as the Sultantepe archive, are about 400 Neo-Assyrian clay tablets found at Sultantepe between Urfa and Harran, excavated in 1951 and 1952.
Sulthan (சுல்தான்) (2021 film)
Sulthan (சுல்தான்), 2021 Tamil action drama by Bakkiyaraj Kannan, Dream Warrior Pictures, starring Karthi and Rashmika Mandanna (her Tamil debut); released 2 April 2021, Hotstar 2 May 2021.
Sulthiame
Sulthiame (sultiame, Ospolot) is a sulfonamide carbonic anhydrase inhibitor antiseizure drug (ATC N03AX03) used in Europe and Israel for rolandic epilepsy, investigated for sleep apnea, not licensed in the US or UK.
Sulu
Province of Sulu (Luwa' Sug), Philippine island province in the Sulu Archipelago, capital Jolo, 19 municipalities, 2024 population 1,146,097; historic seat of the Sultanate of Sulu; excluded from BARMM by 2024 Supreme Court ruling and transferred to Region IX by EO 91 in 2025.
Sulu expedition (1851)
The Sulu expedition of 1851 was a Spanish punitive operation against the Sultanate of Sulu, led by Governor-General Antonio Urbiztondo and ending in a treaty signed that April.
Sulu Sea
The Sulu Sea is a small, deep marginal sea of the western Pacific, lying between the Philippine islands of Palawan, Panay, Negros, and Mindanao and northeastern Borneo.
Sulu tribute missions to the Qing
The Sulu tribute missions to the Qing (蘇祿入貢) were missions from the sultanate of Sulu in the southern Philippines to the Qing court between 1726 and 1763.
Suluk
Suluk (苏禄) was a khagan of the Türgesh, a Turkic people of Central Asia, who resisted Umayyad Arab expansion, married Tang, Turkic, and Tibetan princesses, and was assassinated in 738.
Suluk Malang Sumirang
Suluk Malang Sumirang is a Javanese Islamic mystical text (suluk) attributed to Pangeran Panggung, dated to around the 16th century and counted among the most important works of the Javanese Islamic literary period.
Suluk Wujil
Suluk Wujil is an early Javanese Islamic mystical poem attributed to Sunan Bonang, inscribed at Cirebon, West Java, in 1607 and among the earliest works of the Javanese suluk genre.
Sulumal
Sulumal was king of Melid, a Neo-Hittite kingdom on the Malatya Plain in eastern Anatolia, known from the tribute lists of Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria in the mid-eighth century BC.
Sulz
Sulz (Sulz am Neckar), Baden-Württemberg: Roman cohort fort built about 74 AD under Vespasian, garrisoned by about 500 auxiliaries, abandoned around 90 AD; its vicus, painted Römerkeller museum, and medieval salt town first documented in 790.
Sulzberger Bay
Sulzberger Bay is an Antarctic bay indenting the Sulzberger Ice Shelf on the Marie Byrd Land coast, discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1929.
Sulzer (manufacturer)
Sulzer Ltd., also known as Gebrüder Sulzer, is a Swiss industrial engineering company headquartered in Winterthur, Switzerland. Founded in 1834, it manufactures pumps and separation equipment worldwide.