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Sultana has multiple meanings: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

  • Sultana is a variety of white seedless grape
  • Sultana is a common Western styling for the wife of a Sultan
  • Sultana is also commonly used throughout Middle Eastern countries as a popular female name, usually as a middle or first name
  • Sultana bird is another name for the Purple swamphen
  • Sultana is also the name of a Turkish hip hop musician

Several ships are named Sultana The sultana is a type of white, seedless grape of Turkish or Persian origin, as well as a type of raisin made from it; such sultana raisins are often called simply These are typically larger than the currants made from Zante grapes but smaller than normal raisins, and are noted... The term Sultana is used for a few Muslim women rulers in history. ... Sultan (Arabic: سلطان) is an Islamic title, with several historical meanings. ... Binomial name Porphyrio porphyrio (Linnaeus, 1758) The Purple Swamphen, Purple Gallinule or Pukeko, Porphyrio porphyrio, is a large bird in the family Rallidae. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ...

  • HMS Sultana, a Royal Navy schooner that patrolled the American coast from 1768 — 1772
  • The Sultana, the first ship from the Sultanate of Oman to visit the new world bearing the personal greetings and the representative of Sultan Sayyid Said ibn Sultan in 1840
  • The Sultana, a passenger ship which transported Irish immigrants from Liverpool, England to New York City in 1843
  • Sultana (steamboat) that exploded and sank in 1865 killing 1,700 people
  • Sultana is also a reconstruction of the 1768 schooner which was launched in 2001 at Chestertown, MD
  • Sultana was a very famous dacoit at Najibabad in Western U.P. in early 20th century
  • Sultana is another word for a female emperor.

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1862sultana (3230 words)
Sultana disaster received less attention than it should have, because it occurred at the time the funeral train of the assassinated Abraham Lincoln was traveling past huge crowds in Washington to the President’s burial place at Springfield, Illinois.
Sultana was in port, the Army decided that she could carry to the North a throng of Union soldiers from Confederate prisons, including the notorious Andersonville, who had assembled at Vicksburg.
Sultana swung ‘round a bend and began to labor her way past a cluster of islands known as the "Hen and Chickens," about seven miles north of Memphis, when her boilers suddenly exploded with a tremendous crash that was heard all the way back to Memphis.
Sultana (steamboat) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (788 words)
The steamboat Sultana was a Mississippi River paddlewheeler which was destroyed in an explosion on 27 April 1865, the greatest maritime disaster in United States history.
Sultana had been contracted by the United States government to transport these former prisoners of war back to their homes in the north.
The official cause of the Sultana disaster was determined to be mismanagement of water levels in the boiler, exacerbated by "careening." The Sultana was severely overcrowded and top heavy.
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