Sultana

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Sultana has multiple meanings:

  • 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

  • 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


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