Sultana
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Sultana or Sultanah may refer to:
Common meanings
- Sultana (grape), a white seedless grape
- Sultana (dried grape), the name given to some forms of dried grape (known generically as "raisins" elsewhere) in certain countries
- Sultana (title), a female sultan
Places
Asia
- Sultana, Rajasthan, India, a town
Europe
- Sultana, a village in Mânăstirea Commune, Călăraşi County, Romania
Middle East
- Sultanah, Saudi Arabia, a village
North America
- Sultana, California, a census-designated place
- Sultana, a Tanana Indian name for Mount Foraker, Alaska
Oceania
- Sultana Point, a headland in South Australia
- Sultana Point, South Australia, a locality
People
- Sultana (actress), Years active 1922-1937, Indian silent actress
- Sultana Frizell (born 1984), Canadian track and field athlete
- Sultana Kamal (born 1950), Bangladeshi human rights worker and politician
- Gouher Sultana (born 1988), Indian cricketer
- Parveen Sultana (born 1950), Assamese Hindustani classical singer in India
- Stefan Sultana (born 1968), Maltese retired footballer
- Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis (1712–1770), Maltese linguist, historian and cleric (de Soldanis is a Latinized version of Sultana)
Animals
- Sultana bird, another name for the Purple Swamphen
- Sultana (gastropod), a land snail
Literature
- Sultana, an Arabic novel by Jordanian writer Ghalib Halasa
Art, entertainment, and media
- The Sultana (1916), an American film starring Ruth Roland
- Sultana, a disco song from the early 1970s by the Norwegian band Titanic
- Sultana Mera Naam Hai Sultana, a song from the 1979 Hindi film Tarana
Ships
- HMS Sultana, the name of several Royal Navy vessels
- HMS Sultana (2001), a replica of the 1768 schooner launched in 2001 at Chestertown, Maryland
- Sultana (steamboat), a steamboat that exploded and sank in 1865, killing 1,800 people
- USS Sultana (SP-134), a yacht leased by the United States Navy in World War I
- Sultana, Ali Pasha's flagship galley during the Battle of Lepanto
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