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Supreme Council of the Republic of LatviaInstitutionThe Supreme Council of Latvia was the parliament elected in March 1990, in which the Popular Front of Latvia won a majority.
Supreme Council of the Republic of LithuaniaInstitutionThe Supreme Council of Lithuania was the parliament elected in February 1990 with a majority for the Sąjūdis movement, under Vytautas Landsbergis as chairman.
Supreme Court of CanadaInstitutionThe Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court of Canada, established in 1875 and sitting in Ottawa.
Supreme Leader of IranTermThe Supreme Leader of Iran is the highest office of the Islamic Republic of Iran, created by the constitution of 1979 on the principle of the guardianship of the…
Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSRInstitutionThe Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR was the legislature of Soviet Estonia.
Suq al-ShuyukhPlaceSuq al-Shuyukh is a town on the Euphrates in Dhi Qar Governorate of southern Iraq, on the edge of the marshes.- Suqut al-BarghawatiPersonSuqut al-Barghawati was a former slave of Barghawata origin who served the Hammudid rulers and became master of Ceuta and Tangier in the mid-11th century.
Sur EmpireStateThe Sur Empire was an Afghan state founded in northern India by Sher Shah Suri, who drove the Mughal emperor Humayun out of India in 1540.
Suraj MalPersonSuraj Mal (1707–1763) was the Jat ruler of Bharatpur who turned his family's holdings west of Agra into a powerful kingdom.
SurajkundWork / monumentSurajkund is an ancient reservoir in Faridabad, Haryana, just south of Delhi, built like an amphitheatre with stone steps descending to the water on a semicircular plan.
SuramePlaceSurame is the site of the ruined first capital of the Kebbi kingdom, in Sokoto State, north-western Nigeria.
SuratPlaceSurat is a port city in Gujarat in western India, a major commercial centre under the Mughal Empire.- Surat AgencyInstitutionThe Surat Agency was a political agency of British India that supervised a group of small princely states in southern Gujarat, among them Dharampur, Bansda and Sachin…
Surat ThaniPlaceSurat Thani is a city in southern Thailand, capital of Surat Thani province, near the mouth of the Tapi river on the Bay of Bandon.- SurawisesaPersonSurawisesa was king of Sunda in western Java from 1521 to about 1535, the son and successor of Sri Baduga Maharaja.
Surb Karapet MonasteryPlaceSurb Karapet, the Monastery of the Holy Forerunner, stood near Muş in the historic Armenian district of Taron.- SurenaPersonSurena was a Parthian general of the House of Suren in the service of King Orodes II.
- Surendra SaiPersonSurendra Sai was a claimant to the throne of Sambalpur in western Odisha, India, who led a long armed revolt against British rule.
Surendranagar districtPlaceSurendranagar district is a district of Gujarat in western India, on the northern edge of the Kathiawar peninsula next to the Little Rann of Kutch.
SurinamePlaceSuriname is a country on the north-eastern coast of South America, formerly a Dutch colony.
Suriname RiverPlaceThe Suriname River flows about 480 kilometres north from the interior of Suriname to the Atlantic, passing Paramaribo near its mouth, where it is joined by the…
SuriyothaiPersonSuriyothai was a queen of Ayutthaya, wife of King Maha Chakkraphat.
Surkh KotalPlaceSurkh Kotal is an archaeological site in Baghlan Province, northern Afghanistan, where a hilltop dynastic sanctuary of the Kushan kings stood.- Surkhay Khan IPersonSurkhay Khan I was khan of Kazikumukh, the Lak state in the mountains of Dagestan, in the first half of the 18th century.
Suro of Geumgwan GayaPersonSuro is the legendary founder of Geumgwan Gaya, the leading state of the Gaya confederacy in southern Korea, near modern Gimhae.
Surrender at VilágosEventThe Surrender at Világos took place on 13 August 1849, when the Hungarian army under Artúr Görgei laid down its arms to the Russian forces that had intervened on the…
Surrender of JapanPeace · 2 September 1945The surrender of Japan was formally signed on 2 September 1945 aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.- SurselvaPlaceThe Surselva is the valley of the Vorderrhein in western Graubünden, Switzerland, stretching from the Oberalp Pass down to Ilanz and beyond.
Suruga ProvincePlaceSuruga Province was an old province of Japan in the central part of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, on the Pacific coast below Mount Fuji.
Suryavarman IPersonSuryavarman I was king of the Khmer Empire from about 1006 to 1050.
Suryavarman IIPersonSuryavarman II was a king of the Khmer Empire in the first half of the twelfth century.- SusaPlaceSusa was an ancient city in south-western Iran, the capital of Elam and later an Achaemenid royal capital.
Susa, PiedmontPlaceSusa is a town in the Susa valley of Piedmont, north-western Italy, at the foot of the routes over the Montgenèvre and Mont Cenis passes.- SušakPlaceSušak is the eastern part of the Croatian city of Rijeka, across the Rječina river from the old town.
- Susan B. AnthonyPersonSusan B.
- SusharmanPersonSusharman was the fourth and last king of the Kanva dynasty of Magadha in northern India, known from the Puranas.
Sushila KarkiPersonSushila Karki is a Nepalese jurist who became the first woman to serve as chief justice of Nepal, in 2016–2017, known for rulings against corruption.
SushrutaPersonSushruta was an ancient Indian physician, the traditional author of a surgical compendium.
Sushruta SamhitaWork / monumentThe Sushruta Samhita is an ancient Sanskrit treatise on medicine and surgery attributed to Sushruta, one of the foundational texts of Ayurveda.
Susilo Bambang YudhoyonoPersonSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono is a retired Indonesian general and politician who served as president from 2004 to 2014.
Susquehanna RiverPlaceThe Susquehanna River flows about 700 kilometres from central New York through Pennsylvania to the head of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, making it the longest river on…
Susu peoplePeople / groupThe Susu are a Mande-speaking people of coastal Guinea and north-western Sierra Leone.
Sutan SjahrirPersonSutan Sjahrir was an Indonesian nationalist and socialist leader from West Sumatra.
SutherlandPlaceSutherland is a historic county in the far north of Scotland, now part of the Highland council area, a thinly peopled land of moors, mountains and lochs.
Sutlej RiverPlaceThe Sutlej River is a river of the Punjab, a tributary of the Indus.
SutorinaPlaceSutorina is a narrow strip of coast at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor, near Herceg Novi in present-day Montenegro.
SutriPlaceSutri is a town in Lazio, central Italy, on the Via Cassia north of Rome, with an Etruscan past and a rock-cut amphitheatre.
Sutta NipataWork / monumentThe Sutta Nipata is a collection of Buddhist discourses in verse and prose in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pali Canon.
Sutton HooPlaceSutton Hoo is a site near Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, with a cemetery of early 7th-century burial mounds.
SuvaPlaceSuva is the capital and largest city of Fiji, on the south-east coast of Viti Levu.- SuvarPlaceSuvar was a medieval town of Volga Bulgaria, south of the Kama in present-day Tatarstan, named after the Suvar, one of the tribes that formed the Bulgar state.
- SuvarnadvipaPlaceSuvarnadvipa, Sanskrit for 'island of gold', was the Indian name for a land in maritime Southeast Asia, usually identified with Sumatra or more broadly with the Malay…
SuvarnagiriPlaceSuvarnagiri, 'golden mountain', was a city of the Maurya Empire in southern India, named in Ashoka's minor rock edicts as the seat of a prince who governed the southern…
SuwaydaPlaceSuwayda is a city in southern Syria, capital of the Suwayda Governorate in the Jabal al-Druze, whose population is mainly Druze.
SuwałkiPlaceSuwałki is a town in north-eastern Poland, in Podlaskie Voivodeship near the borders with Lithuania and Russia.
SuwonPlaceSuwon is a city about 30 kilometres south of Seoul and the capital of Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, with more than a million inhabitants.- SuyabPlaceSuyab was a Silk Road city in the Chu valley of northern Kyrgyzstan, at the site of Ak-Beshim near Tokmok.
- SuyyaPersonSuyya was a minister and engineer of King Avantivarman of Kashmir in the 9th century.
SuzdalPlaceSuzdal is a small town in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, on the Kamenka river.
SuzhouPlaceSuzhou is a city in southern Jiangsu, China, on the Grand Canal near Lake Tai, famous for its canals, classical gardens and silk.
SvansPeople / groupThe Svans are a people of Svaneti, a high valley region of north-western Georgia in the Greater Caucasus, counted as a subgroup of the Georgians.
SvantevitReligion / ideaSvantevit was a god of the Baltic Slavs, worshipped above all by the Rani at the temple fortress of Arkona on Rügen.- SvapnavasavadattaWork / monumentSvapnavasavadatta, The Dream of Vasavadatta, is a Sanskrit play in six acts attributed to Bhasa.
SvarožičReligion / ideaSvarožič was a West Slavic god whose temple at Rethra, among the Lutici, is described by Thietmar of Merseburg around 1015 under the name Zuarasici.
Svatopluk I of MoraviaPersonSvatopluk I was ruler of Great Moravia from 870 to 894, under whom the state reached its greatest extent, including Bohemia, parts of southern Poland and Pannonia.
SvearPeople / groupThe Svear were a North Germanic people of the Lake Mälaren region and Uppland in eastern Sweden, the Suiones described by Tacitus.
Sveinn BjörnssonPersonSveinn Björnsson was an Icelandic diplomat and statesman.
Sven HedinPersonSven Hedin was a Swedish geographer and explorer who made several expeditions through Central Asia and Tibet between the 1890s and the 1930s.
Sveriges RiksbankInstitutionSveriges Riksbank is the central bank of Sweden, founded in 1668.
Sverre of NorwayPersonSverre Sigurdsson was King of Norway from 1184 to 1202, having led the Birkebeiner faction in the civil wars from 1177.
Svetitskhoveli CathedralWork / monumentSvetitskhoveli Cathedral is the principal Orthodox cathedral of Mtskheta, the ancient capital of Iberia, standing on the site of the first church built after the…
Svetozar MarovićPersonSvetozar Marović (born 1955) is a Montenegrin politician who was the first and only President of Serbia and Montenegro, from 2003 to 2006.
Svetozar PribićevićPersonSvetozar Pribićević (1875–1936) was a Serb politician from Croatia who led the Croat-Serb Coalition in Austria-Hungary.- Sviatopolk I of KievPersonSviatopolk I, called the Accursed, was a son of Vladimir the Great who ruled Turov in his father's lifetime.
Sviatopolk II of KievPersonSviatopolk II Iziaslavich was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1093 until his death.
Sviatoslav I of KievPersonSviatoslav I of Kiev was a prince of Kievan Rus in the tenth century.
Sviatoslav II of KievPersonSviatoslav II (1027–1076) was a son of Yaroslav the Wise who received Chernigov under his father's will in 1054.- Sviatoslav VsevolodovichPersonSviatoslav Vsevolodovich (1196–1252) was a son of Vsevolod the Big Nest of Vladimir-Suzdal and prince of Yuryev-Polsky.
- Sviatoslav's campaign against the KhazarsCampaign · 960sSviatoslav's campaign against the Khazars was a series of military expeditions by the prince of Kievan Rus in the 960s.
Sviatoslav's invasion of BulgariaWar · 968–971Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria was the campaign of 968–971 in which Sviatoslav I of Kiev, first invited by the Byzantines, conquered much of the First Bulgarian…
ŠvitrigailaPersonŠvitrigaila was a son of Algirdas and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1430 to 1432.- Swa Saw KePersonSwa Saw Ke was king of Ava in Upper Burma from 1367 to 1400, consolidating the kingdom founded by Thado Minbya in 1365.
SwabiaPlaceSwabia is a historic region of south-western Germany, taking its name from the Suebi and corresponding roughly to the land settled by the Alemanni between the upper…
Swabia (Bavaria)PlaceSwabia is an administrative region of Bavaria, Germany, often called Bavarian Swabia, with its capital at Augsburg.
Swabian CircleInstitutionThe Swabian Circle was one of the Imperial Circles into which the Holy Roman Empire was divided from 1500 to organise defence, coinage and peace-keeping.
Swabian JuraPlaceThe Swabian Jura, or Swabian Alb, is a limestone upland in south-western Germany, running about 200 km from the Black Forest to the Ries crater.
Swabian LeaguePeople / groupThe Swabian League was an alliance of princes, knights and imperial cities in south-western Germany, founded at Esslingen in 1488 with the backing of Emperor Frederick…
Swabian WarWar · 1499The Swabian War was fought in 1499 between the Old Swiss Confederacy and its allies and the Habsburg emperor Maximilian I with the Swabian League.
Swabian-Alemannic FastnachtEventSwabian-Alemannic Fastnacht, or Fasnet, is the traditional carnival of south-western Germany, northern Switzerland, Alsace and Vorarlberg, held before Lent.- SwahiliPeople / groupThe Swahili are a people of the East African coast, whose culture developed through interaction between Bantu-speaking Africans and Arab and Persian traders.
Swami SamarthPersonSwami Samarth was a Hindu saint who lived at Akkalkot in western India from about 1856 until his death in 1878.
Swami VivekanandaPersonSwami Vivekananda was an Indian Hindu monk, a disciple of Ramakrishna, who did much to introduce Vedanta and yoga to the West.
SwanseaPlaceSwansea is a coastal city in south Wales at the mouth of the River Tawe.
SWAPOPeople / groupSWAPO, the South West Africa People's Organisation, is the Namibian liberation movement founded in 1960.- SwargadeoTermSwargadeo, "lord of heaven", was the title of the kings of the Ahom kingdom of Assam, rendering the Tai Ahom title Chao-pha.
- Swarup Singh of MewarPersonSwarup Singh was Maharana of Mewar from 1842 to 1861.
Swathi ThirunalPersonSwathi Thirunal Rama Varma (1813–1846) was Maharaja of Travancore from 1829 to 1846.- SwatiPeople / groupThe Swati, or Swazi, are a Nguni-speaking people of southern Africa.
Swazi languageTermSwazi, or siSwati, is a Bantu language of the Nguni group, closely related to Zulu.- Swaziland ConventionsTreaty · 1890–1894The Swaziland Conventions were three agreements between Britain and the South African Republic (Transvaal) on the status of Swaziland, concluded in 1890, 1893 and 1894.