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Southampton, New York

Southampton, New York: a Suffolk County town on Long Island's South Fork, settled 1640 from Lynn, Massachusetts at Conscience Point; claims first English colony in New York, disputed by Southold; population 69,036 (2020).

Southbound (2015 film)

Southbound (2015) is an American horror anthology film by Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner, Patrick Horvath, and Radio Silence, the V/H/S makers, with five interlocking desert-highway tales; it premiered at TIFF 2015 and was released by The Orchard in February 2016.

Southbound Journey

Southbound Journey (南行记, Nán Xíng Jì) is a 1935 short story collection by Chinese writer Ai Wu, based on his 1920s drifting through the Yunnan–Burma borderlands.

Southbridge (computing)

The southbridge, called the I/O Controller Hub on Intel platforms, handled a PC motherboard's slower I/O like storage, USB, audio, and networking, replaced by Intel's Platform Controller Hub.

Southcross Energy

Southcross Energy, also known as Southcross Energy Partners, L.P., was a Dallas natural gas midstream company founded in 2009, operating in South Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama before its 2019 bankruptcy.

Southeast Adriatic Drainages

Southeast Adriatic Drainages (FEOW ecoregion 420) is a Palearctic temperate coastal rivers ecoregion covering Albanian and western Balkan drainages from the Drin to the Vjosa, rich in endemic fish and eutrophying the southeastern Adriatic coast.

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia: subregion between the Indian and Pacific oceans, spanning the Indochina and Malay peninsulas and the Malay Archipelago; home to the eleven ASEAN member states, tropical monsoon climate, Sunda Shelf geology, and high climate-change vulnerability.

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), also called the Manila Pact organization, a Cold War alliance formed in 1954 by the US, UK, France, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand; Bangkok-based, consultation-only defense pact, dissolved June 30, 1977.

Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty

The Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, or Bangkok Treaty, is a multilateral agreement signed in 1995 by ten states. It binds them not to develop or use nuclear weapons.

Southeast Asian ovalocytosis

Southeast Asian ovalocytosis (SAO, hereditary ovalocytosis, SLC4A1Δ27) is an autosomal dominant red cell membrane disorder causing rigid ovalocytes, common in Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea, that protects carriers against cerebral and vivax malaria.

Southeast Gateway Gas Pipeline

The Southeast Gateway Gas Pipeline, also called Puerta al Sureste, is a 715-kilometer offshore natural gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico serving southeast Mexico.

Southeast Indian Ridge

Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR), the divergent boundary between the Australian and Antarctic plates in the southeastern Indian Ocean; intermediate spreading 58-76 mm/yr, active since 95 Ma, includes the anomalous Australia-Antarctica Discordance.

Southeast Missouri State University

Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO), founded 1873 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri as the Third District Normal School, is a public master's-level regional university with a statewide mission in computer science, cybersecurity, and the arts.

Southeast Sulawesi

Southeast Sulawesi (Sulawesi Tenggara, Sultra) is an Indonesian province on Sulawesi's southeastern peninsula, capital Kendari, established 1964. About 2.79 million people (2024); nickel mining, fisheries, and Wakatobi coral reefs dominate its economy.

Southeast Supply Header

Southeast Supply Header (SESH) is an interstate natural gas pipeline from the Perryville Hub in Louisiana across Mississippi to Mobile County, Alabama, in service since 2008.

Southeast temple of the Athenian Agora

Southeast Temple of the Athenian Agora: a 2nd-century AD Ionic octastyle prostyle Roman temple built over the classical Mint, reusing members from the Temple of Athena at Sounion, damaged in the Herulian sack of 267 AD and restored in 2025-2026.

Southeast the Peacock Flies

Southeast the Peacock Flies (孔雀東南飛), originally Ancient Poem Written for the Wife of Jiao Zhongqing, is a Han yuefu narrative poem about a forced separation ending in double suicide.

Southeast University

Southeast University (东南大学, SEU) is a Project 985/211 national key research university in Nanjing, China, tracing to 1902; strong in engineering, with five A+ disciplines and twelve Double First-Class disciplines.

Southeastern (train operating company)

Southeastern, the trading name of SE Trains Limited, is a publicly owned British train operator serving London, Kent, and East Sussex, and running Britain's only domestic high-speed rail service.

Southeastern Anatolia Project

The Southeastern Anatolia Project (Turkish: Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi, GAP) is Turkey's regional development program for the Euphrates and Tigris basins, begun in the 1970s and built around 22 dams and large-scale irrigation.

Southeastern Borneo

Southeastern Borneo is a freshwater ecoregion, number 746 in the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World scheme, covering southern Borneo's river basins, mostly in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Southeastern Cave Conservancy Inc.

Southeastern Cave Conservancy Inc. (SCCi), founded 1991 by Jeff and Alexis Harris, is the largest land conservancy solely dedicated to caves, protecting 170+ caves on 39 preserves across seven southeastern states via free online permits.

Southeastern Cluster

Southeastern Cluster (Southeastern Group) of the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia: five churches south of the River Jordan, including Biete Amanuel, Biete Gabriel Raphael, Biete Mercoreus, Biete Abba Libanos, and Biete Lehem, some possibly former palaces or prisons.

Southeastern Conference

Southeastern Conference (SEC), American college athletic conference founded 1932 in Knoxville, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. Sixteen members after Oklahoma and Texas joined July 1, 2024; $3.4B member athletics revenue and $1.03B distributed for 2024-25.

Southeastern Europe

Southeastern Europe, also called the Balkans, is the peninsula region between Central Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea, marked by Byzantine, Ottoman, and Latin Christian layering and ongoing EU enlargement.

Southeastern Ghats

Southeastern Ghats (FEOW ecoregion 716): a freshwater fish ecoregion of peninsular India covering the Cauvery and adjacent basins south of Pulicat Lake, draining to the Bay of Bengal, with endemic fish fauna.

Southeastern Korean Peninsula

Southeastern Korean Peninsula (FEOW ecoregion 639): temperate coastal-river freshwater ecoregion covering rivers draining to Korea's southern and southeastern coasts, plus Ulluengdo, Jejudo, and Tsushima, with 11 endemic fish species.

Southeastern Mata Atlantica

Southeastern Mata Atlantica is a freshwater ecoregion in southern Brazil covering coastal rivers and lagoons between the Rio Araranguá and the Rio Ribeira de Iguape.

Southeastern United States

Southeastern United States: the American South region, also called the Southeast or Dixie, spanning Atlantic and Gulf coastal states. Defined variously by Census divisions, climate (humid subtropical), Reconstruction history, and Southern identity.

Southend United F.C.

Southend United F.C. (the Shrimpers), English football club founded 1906 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex; Football League member 1920-2021, second tier in 1991 and 2006-07, now National League at Roots Hall under COSU ownership led by Justin Rees since 2024.