Suez, Gulf of

The northwestern the IMG:content-1078.png:[blocks in formation] Pru ia, situated in the Thüringer wald, on the Sulina (sö-lē'nä). The middle one of the three Lauter, 23 miles south of Gotha. It is famous for chief mouths of the Danube, and the one most manufactures of iron, especially of firearms, and was long frequented by ships. called "the armory of Germany." Population (1890), 11,533. Sulina. A town in Rumania, at the mouth of Suhrab (modern Pers. pron. sö-hrab'; earlier, the Sulina branch of the Danube. following the Arabic, so-hrab'). In the Shah- Suliotes (sö'li-ōtz). A Greco-Albanian peonamah, the son of Rustam by Tahminah. Rusple who settled in Suli and carried on war in tam kills Suhrab without knowing that he is the 18th century against the Turks and Albahis son. (See Rustam .) Also Sohrab . Suidas (sū'i-das). [Gr. Σουίδας .] Lived probably in the second half of the 10th century A. D. A nians. They were finally subdued in 1822, and forced to leave Suli for Greece, where they played an important part in the war of liberation. Born The Century Cyclopedia of Names the west: the ancient Heroopolites Sinus. Suez, Isthmus of. The isthmus which unites Asia and Africa, and separates the Mediterranean from the Red Sea: now intersected by the Suez Canal (which see). Suez Canal. A ship-canal which connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. Napoleon I. entertained the idea of building a maritime canal between these two bodies of water, but abandoned it in consequence of a report by the engineer Lepère (1798), which placed the surface of the Red Sea nearly 30 feet higher than that of the Mediterranean. This mistake was corrected by British officers in 1841, and in 1849 Ferdinand de Le eps began a thorough investigation of the isthmus. With the consent of the Khedive of Egypt and the Porte he organized the Universal Company of the Maritime Suez Canal in 1856, half the capital of which was raised by public subscription in Europe (chiefly in France), the other half by the khedive. Work began April 25, 1859, and Nov. 16, 1869, the canal was opened for navigation, having cost about £20, 000,000. It is 100 miles long, traversing Lake Menzaleh, Lake Timsah, and the Bitter Lakes, and was originally from 150 to 300 feet wide at the water-surface, and 72 at the bottom, with a minimum depth of 26 feet: but has since (1886-90) been deepened to 28 feet and considerably widened. The original capital of the company consisted of 400,000 shares of £20 each (besides 100,000 founders' shares), of which 176,602 belonged to the khedive and were purchased by the British government in 1875. The following table shows the increase in the number of ve els pa ing through the canal and the receipts of the encyclopedic Greek lexicon. "The works of Suidas, like those of Photius, contain a vast store of various learn bra ted Roman general and dictator. As questor ing, singularly useful on points of criticism and literary history. The lexicon of this writer, besides the definition of words, contains accounts of ancient authors of all cla es, and many quotations from works that have since per ished." Taylor . The author of the great lexicon which bears the name of Suidas is known to us only from the title-page of this compilation, and from some citations in the commentary of Eustathius. That he was a Byzantine monk is merely a conjecture started by Joannes Rosinus and adopted by subsequent scholars. Even the age in which he flourished is quite uncertain; for it cannot be ascertained whether the references to certain personages of a comparatively modern date belong to the original fabric of the lexicon, or were subsequent additions. K. O. Müller , Hist. of the Lit. of Anc. Greece, III. 385. [( Donald son .) Suiones (sū-'ō-nēz). [L. (Tacitus) Suiones , (Jor Ac danes) Suehans, ON. Svíar , AS. Swéeon .] cording to Tacitus, the collective name of the Germanic inhabitants of Scand in a via. In Jordanes, in the 6th century, as Suehans (i. e. Sveans ), the name is limited to the inhabitants of central Sweden, whence it has been extended to include the whole country. Suir (shör). A river in Ireland which unites east of Water ford with the Barrow to form Water ford Harbor. Length, over 100 miles. Sui e (süēs), La. The French name of Swit zerland. £ 206,373 Suisun Bay (sö-e-sön' bā). A bay in California 1,629,577 which communicates on the west by Carquinez 2,680,436 Strait with San Pablo Bay, and through it 2,951,073 with San Francisco Bay. It receives the Sac- 3,182,800 ramen to and San Joaquin rivers. Length, 2,913,222 about 20 miles. 3,124,149 3,411,791 Suivante (süē-vont'), La. A comedy by Cor- 3,652,751 neille, i ued in 1634, in which the character of the soubrette makes its first appearance. Suffolk (suf'ok). [ME. Suffolk , AS. Suthfolc , south folk: opposed to Northfole , north folk, Sukuma (sö-köʻmä), or Wasukuma (wä-sö-kö Cambridge. Its surface is generally level, and it is one of the chief agricultural counties of England. It formed part of the old kingdom of East Anglia. Area, 1,475 square miles. Population (1891), 371,235. Suffolk, Dukes of. See Brandon , Charles , and Grey , Henry . mä). A Bantu tribe of German East Africa, inhabiting a vast undulating plateau south of Lake Victoria. This region, called Usukuma, is sometimes spoken of as the northern part of Unyamwezi. The lan guage, Kisukuma, is closely allied to Nyamwezi, being po ibly only a dialect of the latter. The Wasukuma are agricultural and pastoral. Their petty chiefs used to exact toll from travelers. Sul, Rio Grande do. See Rio Grande do Sul . Sula (sö'lä). A river in southern Ru ia which in the army of Marius he served in the war against Jugurtha 107-106, and captured Jugurtha; fought against the Cimbri and Teutones 104-101; was pretor in 93; as propretor in Cilicia in 92 defeated the general of Mithridates and restored Ariobarzanes to the throne of Cappadocia; took part in the Social War 90-89, and captured Bovianum 89; and was consul in 88. The civil war between him and Marius broke out in 88. He led an army against Rome and expelled the Marians (this was the first time that a Roman had led a Roman army against Rome). As commander in the Mithridatic war, 87-84, he de feated Archelaus at Chærone a in 86 and Or cho menus in 85, and defeated the Marian leader Fimbria in 84. He 82, and the Samnites at the Colline Gate in 82. He i ued landed in Italy in 83, and defeated the Marians in 83 and a sweeping proscription against his enemies (see extract below); was appointed dictator in 82; and was consul in 80. He attempted various constitutional reforms; reor ganized the senate and the judiciary; established military colonies in Italy; and resigned the dictatorship in 79. One of his first acts was to draw up a list of his enemies who were to be put to death, which list was exhibited in the forum to public inspection, and called a Proscriptio. It was the first instance of the kind in Roman history. All persons in this list were outlaws, who might be killed by any one with impunity, even by slaves; their property was confiscated to the state, and was to be sold by public auction.