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SUID-ffi, or SUIDA 161 SULIOTS, or SULIOTES SUID^, or SUIDA, in zoology, a fam- ily of artiodactyle mammals, of the Bu- nodont group (in which the crowns of the molars are tuberculated). The feet have only two functional toes, the other two being much shorter, and hardly touching the gi'ound. Molars, incisors, and canines are present, the last very large, and, in the males, usually consti- tuting formidable tusks projecting from the side of the mouth. The stomach is generally slightly divided, but is by no means so complex as in the Ru- minantia. Snout truncated and cylin- drical, capable of considerable move- ment, and adapted for rooting up the ground. The skin is covered with hair to a greater or less extent; tail very short, in some cases rudimentary. The family is divided into three well-marked groups or sub-families: Suime, true swine {Siis, Potamochoerus, BahirtLsa, and Porcula) ; Dicotylinas {Peccaries, with the single genus Dicotyles, often classed as a family) ; and Phacochoe- rinx (wart hogs, with one genus, Pha- cochcerus). The family probably com- menced in the Eocene Tertiary. SUI JURIS, in the Roman law, the condition of a person not subject to the Patria Potestas. The paterfamilias was the only member of a family who was sui juris, all the rest being alieni jwris, including sons, unmarried daughters, the wife, and the wives and children of the sons of the paterfamilias. A son or un- married daughter became sui juris on the death of the paterfamilias. In his father's lifetime a son could only become sui juris by emancipation. sum, a river of Ireland, flowing 85 miles S. and E., chiefly along the boun- dary of the counties of Tipperary, Wa- terford, Kilkenny, and Wexford, past Clonmel, Carrick, and Waterford, till it meets the Barrow, and immediately af- terward falls into Waterford Haven. It is navigable by barges as far as Clonmel. SUKKUR, a town on the right bank of the Indus, 28 miles S. E. of Shikar- pur; it is connected by rail also with Karachi (Kurrachee), and is the ter- minus of the Bolan Pass railway to Af- ghanistan. The river is crossed by a magnificent cantilever bridge (1889), or rather by two bridges (one with a span of 820 feet), resting on the fortified island of Bukkur in the middle of the channel. New Sukkur, which grew up after the British occupied (1839) the fort on Bukkur, has considerable trade in silk, cloth, cotton, wool, opium, salt- peter, sugar, brass utensils, piece goods, metals, wines and spirits. Old Sukkur, about a mile away, has a good many old tombs in its vicinity. Pop. about 25,000. SUKHOMLINOV, VLADIMIR ALEX- ANDROVITCH, a Russian soldier, born in 1852. He took part in the Russo- Japanese War on the western frontier Russia, and afterward held impor- tant military posts in Russian Poland and on the Prussian frontier. He be- came Minister of War in 1909, resign- ing in 1915, during the V/orld War. He was an excellent organizer and did much to develop aviation and other branches in the Russian army. SULEIMAN PASIIA, a Turkish mili- tary officer; born in Rumelia in 1840. He entered the Turkish army in 1854, fought in MontenegTO, Crete, and Ye- men between that date and 1875, and in the intervals of peace taught in the Mil- itary Academy at Constantinople, and finally presided over it as director. He greatly distinguished himself as a corps commander against the Serbians in 1876, and was in 1877 nominated governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina. When the Russians declared war (1877) against Turkey Suleiman checked them at Eski Zagra, and destroyed his army in heroic but vain attempts to force them from the Shipka Pass. In October he was ap- pointed commander-in-chief of the Army of the Danube, but failed to accomplish anything, retreated behind the Balkans, and suffered defeat near Philippopolis (January, 1878). Brought before a court-martial, he was condemned to be degraded and kept in a fortress prison for 15 years. The sultan, hov^ever, par- doned him, and he died in Constanti- nople Aug. 11, 1892. SULIMAN MOUNTAINS, a range on the borders of Afghanistan and British India. The highest summit, Takht-i- Suliman, or "Suliman's Seat," attains an elevation of more than 6,000 feet (according to some estimates 11,000 or 12,000 feet). These mountains are cov- ered with dense forests, and are gen- erally considered the peculiar seat of the aboriginal Afghans. SULINA, the middlemost of the three chief mouths of the Danube; it quits the Khedrile or most S. branch, and opens into the Black Sea after an E. course of over 50 miles (see Danube). It is used for transporting immense quantities of corn, chiefly for the British market. SULIOTS, or SULIOTES, a people of mixed Albanian and Greek descent, who formerly dwelt in the S. corner of the