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Jazira or Al-Jazira ( 'island'), or variants, may refer to:


Business

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Jazeera Airways Jazeera Airways K.S.C ( ar, طيران الجزيرة) is a Kuwaiti airline with its head office on the grounds of Kuwait International Airport in Al Farwaniyah Governorate, Kuwait. It operates scheduled services in the Middle East, Nepal, Pakis ...
, an airlines company based in Kuwait


Locations

* Al-Jazira, a traditional region known today as
Upper Mesopotamia Upper Mesopotamia is the name used for the uplands and great outwash plain of northwestern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey, in the northern Middle East. Since the early Muslim conquests of the mid-7th century, the region has be ...
or the smaller region of
Cizre Cizre (; ar, جَزِيْرَة ٱبْن عُمَر, Jazīrat Ibn ʿUmar, or ''Madinat al-Jazira'', he, גזירא, Gzira, ku, Cizîr, ''Cizîra Botan'', or ''Cizîre'', syr, ܓܙܪܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܘܡܪ, Gāzartā,) is a city in the Cizre Dis ...
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Al-Jazira (caliphal province) Al-Jazira ( ar, الجزيرة), also known as Jazirat Aqur or Iqlim Aqur, was a province of the Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates, spanning at minimum most of Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira proper), divided between the districts of Diyar Ba ...
, an Umayyad and Abbasid province encompassing Upper Mesopotamia in modern Syria, Iraq and Turkey. ** Al-Jazira Province, former Syrian province **
Jazira Region The Jazira Region, formerly Jazira Canton, ( ku, Herêma Cizîrê, ar, إقليم الجزيرة, syr, ܦܢܝܬܐ ܕܓܙܪܬܐ, Ponyotho d'Gozarto), is the largest of the three original regions of the de facto Autonomous Administration of Nor ...
, an autonomous Syrian region * al-jazīrah al-ʻarabīyah, the Arabian Peninsula * Al Jazirah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates *
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(Berber: ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ ''Dzayer'' from Arabic: ''al-Jazā'ir'') North Africa * Algiers, the capital city of Algeria *
Al Jazirah (state) Gezira (), also spelt Al Jazirah, is one of the 18 states of Sudan. The state lies between the Blue Nile and the White Nile in the east-central region of the country. It has an area of 27,549 km2. The name comes from the Arabic word for ...
, Sudan * Gezira (Cairo), island in Egypt *
Gezir Gezir ( fa, گزير), also known as Gezire, is a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Bandar Lengeh County, Hormozgan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia ...
, town in Iran *
Algeciras Algeciras ( , ) is a municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. Located in the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula, near the Strait of Gibraltar, it is the largest city on the Bay of Gibraltar ...
, Spain *
Ciutadella de Menorca Ciutadella de Menorca () or simply Ciutadella is a town and a municipality in the western end of Menorca, one of the Balearic Islands (Spain). It is one of the two primary cities in the island, along with Maó. History It was founded by the C ...
(Madina al Jazira), Minorca, Balearic Islands *
Alzira, Valencia Alzira ( es, Alcira) is a city and municipality of 45.088 inhabitants (62,094 floating population) in Valencia, eastern Spain. It is the capital of the '' comarca'' of Ribera Alta in the province of Valencia. The city is the heart of the sec ...
, Spain * Lezíria do Tejo, Portugal * Gżira, a town in Malta *
Cizre Cizre (; ar, جَزِيْرَة ٱبْن عُمَر, Jazīrat Ibn ʿUmar, or ''Madinat al-Jazira'', he, גזירא, Gzira, ku, Cizîr, ''Cizîra Botan'', or ''Cizîre'', syr, ܓܙܪܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܘܡܪ, Gāzartā,) is a city in the Cizre Dis ...
, Turkey *
Zalzala Koh Zalzala Koh (, ''Earthquake Mountain'') or Zalzala Jazeera (''Earthquake Island'') was a small island off the coast of the port city of Gwadar in Balochistan province of Pakistan which appeared on 24 September 2013 following an earthquake. As pre ...
or Zalzala Jazeera, Pakistan * St. Martin's Island, Bangladesh *
Jazeera Beach Jazeera Beach (also known as Gezira Beach; so, Xeebta Jasiira or ) is a beach which overlooks the Somali Sea near the city of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. Here, thousands of people gather to relax on weekends as part of Somali seagoing cu ...
, Somalia


Media

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Al Jazeera Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazee ...
, an
Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walte ...
flagship global news television channel of the eponymous network **
Al Jazeera America Al Jazeera America was an American pay television news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network. The channel was launched on August 20, 2013, to compete with CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Fox News, and in certain markets RT America. It was Al Jaze ...
, the network's American national news channel ** Al Jazeera Balkans, the network's Balkans regional news channel ** Al Jazeera English, the English language global news channel ** Al Jazeera Türk, the network's defunct Turkish news website *'' Aljazeera Magazine'', a defunct magazine published by Aljazeera Publishing ** Aljazeera Publishing, defunct publisher of ''Aljazeera Magazine'' ** Aljazeera.com, the former website of ''Aljazeera Magazine'' * '' Al Jazirah'', a Saudi daily newspaper


Sports

* Al Jazira Club, a sports team in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates *
Al-Jazeera (Jordan) Al-Jazeera Club ( ar, نادي الجزيرة) is a Jordanian multisports club based in Amman. Founded in 1947, the team plays at Amman International Stadium. They complete in the Jordanian Pro League, the top flight of Jordanian football. ...
, a football club in Jordan *
Al-Jazeera SC (Syria) Al-Jazeera Sports Club ( ar, نادي الجزيرة الرياضي) is a Syrian football club currently playing in the Syrian Premier League. The club is based in the city of Al-Hasakah Al-Hasakah ( ar, ٱلْحَسَكَة, al-Ḥasaka; ku, H ...
, a football club in Syria *
Aljazeera Sports Club Aljazeera Zuwara ( ar, الجزيرة) is a Libyan football club based in Zuwara, Libya. They play their home games at Zuwara Stadium. Current squad ''As of 2008–09 season'' Aljazeera Al Jazeera ( ar, ا ...
, a football club in Libya * Al Jazeera SC, a sports club located in Mersa Matruh, Egypt * Gezira Sporting Club, a sports club located in Cairo, Egypt ** Gezira (basketball club), a basketball club located in Cairo, Egypt {{disambiguation, geo Arabic words and phrases