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