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Southward Migration of the Song Court
The Southward Migration of the Song Court (建炎南渡) was Emperor Gaozong's flight south of the Yangtze after the Jin invasion of 1127, establishing the Southern Song.
Southwark
Southwark is a south London borough on the Thames opposite the City, formed in 1965 by merging the metropolitan boroughs of Southwark, Bermondsey, and Camberwell; settled since Roman times.
Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company
The Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company, formally the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, was a private London water supplier formed by an 1845 merger, remembered for John Snow's 1854 cholera investigation.
Southwell
Southwell, Nottinghamshire: site of a large 1st-4th century Roman courtyard villa east of Southwell Minster, excavated by Charles Daniels in 1959, later an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon Christian cemetery, now Scheduled Monument 1003528.
Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines is a Dallas, Texas-based low-cost airline founded by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher in 1971, whose all-Boeing 737, point-to-point model became the template for budget carriers worldwide.
Southwest Airlines fleet
The Southwest Airlines fleet is the all-Boeing 737 jet fleet flown by Southwest Airlines since 1971, apart from a few Boeing 727s; it numbered 803 aircraft as of December 31, 2025.
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 was a passenger flight that overran the runway landing at Chicago Midway in snow on December 8, 2005, killing a boy in a car.
Southwest Airlines Flight 1380
Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 was a domestic passenger flight that suffered an engine fan blade failure on April 17, 2018, killing one passenger before landing safely in Philadelphia.
Southwest Asia Service Medal
The Southwest Asia Service Medal (SWASM) is a US campaign medal established by Executive Order 12754 on March 12, 1991, for service from August 2, 1990 to November 30, 1995 in support of Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Provide Comfort, and the Southwest Asia Cease Fire Campaign, distinct from Canada's same-named medal.
Southwest Baptist Bearcats
Southwest Baptist Bearcats (SBU Bearcats), athletic teams of Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri; NCAA Division II, 22 varsity sports, plus an early varsity esports program launched fall 2016 with League of Legends scholarships of $500 to $10,000.
Southwest Chief
The Southwest Chief is a daily Amtrak long-distance train covering 2,265 miles between Chicago and Los Angeles via Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff, successor to the Santa Fe Super Chief.
Southwest Conference
Southwest Conference (SWC), a Division I college athletic conference founded in 1914 and dominated by Texas schools plus Arkansas, disbanded June 30, 1996; members formed the Big 12, WAC, and Conference USA.
Southwest Economic Region
Southwest Economic Region (Південно-західний економічний район), one of three large Soviet planning regions of the Ukrainian SSR from 1961, covering 13 central and western oblasts; distinct from the 1962 seven-region decree and earlier 1921 and 1952 schemes.
Southwest Finland
Southwest Finland (Varsinais-Suomi, Egentliga Finland) is a Finnish region on the Baltic Sea with 27 municipalities, about 480,000 residents, and Turku as its center; NUTS code FI1C1, Finland's third-largest region.
Southwest Florida International Airport
Southwest Florida International Airport, also called Fort Myers Airport, is a commercial airport in Fort Myers, Florida, opened in 1983 and handling a record 11 million passengers in 2025.
Southwest Gas
Southwest Gas Corporation is a natural gas utility founded in 1931 and headquartered in Las Vegas, serving about 2.26 million customers in Arizona, Nevada, and California.
Southwest humor
Southwest humor, also called Southwestern humor, is a tradition of regional sketches and tales from the antebellum American Southwest that flourished from about 1830 to 1860.
Southwest Indian Ridge
The Southwest Indian Ridge is the plate boundary in the southern Indian Ocean where the African and Antarctic plates move apart, stretching about 7,700 km between two triple junctions.
Southwest National Park
Southwest National Park, Tasmania's largest national park (618,190 ha, gazetted 1951, expanded 1968 and 1976), a remote wilderness in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area with the South Coast Track, Melaleuca, Lake Pedder, and Mount Anne.
Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve
The Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve, known as Kespukwitk, is a UNESCO biosphere reserve designated in 2001 in southwestern Nova Scotia, covering 13,770 km² across five counties.
Southwest Pacific Basin
Southwest Pacific Basin (also Southwestern Pacific Basin): large deep-ocean basin of the South Pacific east of New Zealand, bounded by the Kermadec Trench and Albatross Cordillera; carries the Antarctic-fed deep western boundary current and hosts the sediment-starved South Pacific Bare Zone.
Southwest Palace (Nineveh)
The Southwest Palace, known in inscriptions as the Palace Without a Rival, is the royal palace that Assyrian king Sennacherib built at Nineveh, his capital.
Southwest Palace at Kalhu
Southwest Palace at Kalhu (Nimrud): an unfinished 7th-century BCE Assyrian royal palace in the citadel's southwest corner, attributed to Esarhaddon; distinct from Sennacherib's larger Southwest Palace at Nineveh, and noted for its columned halls and reused orthostats.
Southwest Paleohispanic script
The Southwest Paleohispanic script, also called the Tartessian script, is the first attested indigenous writing system of Iberia, derived from the Phoenician alphabet and used on about 100 stone stelae.
Southwest Papua
Southwest Papua (Papua Barat Daya), Indonesia's 38th province, created by Law No. 29 of 2022 from West Papua; capital Sorong; six regencies/city; Raja Ampat UNESCO Geopark; population about 637,000 (2025).
Southwest Power Pool
Southwest Power Pool is a nonprofit regional transmission organization based in Little Rock, Arkansas, that runs the grid and wholesale power markets across all or part of 17 central and western states.
Southwest Research Institute
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is an independent, nonprofit applied research and development organization in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1947, serving government and industry clients.
Southwest Review
The Southwest Review is an American literary quarterly published at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, founded in 1915 and renamed in 1924, publishing poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews.
Southwest Temple in the Agora of Athens
Southwest Temple (Athenian Agora): small Roman-period temple east of the Tholos, relocated from Thorikos in the Augustan era; tetrastyle prostyle, cult unknown, debated Ionic versus Doric reconstruction.
Southwestern Arabian Coast
Southwestern Arabian Coast (FEOW ecoregion 439), a freshwater ecoregion along the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden coasts of Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, defined by highly endemic cyprinid fish fauna in xeric, spring-fed streams.