Gaza may refer to:

Places

Palestine

Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip (;The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p.761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory under the control of the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza.. ...

, a Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea **

Gaza City Gaza (;''The New Oxford Dictionary of English'' (1998), , p. 761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory in Palestine, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza...". ar, غَزَّة ', ), also referred to as Gaza City, i ...

, a city in the Gaza Strip ** Gaza Governorate, a governorate in the Gaza Strip

Lebanon

* Ghazzeh, a village in the Western Beqaa District

United States

Gaza, Iowa Gaza is an unincorporated community in O'Brien County, Iowa, United States. Gaza is located at . History Gaza got its start in the year 1888, following construction of the Illinois Central Railroad through that territory. It was named after Gaz ...

, an unincorporated community * Gaza, a village in the town of Sanbornton, New Hampshire *

Little Gaza Little Arabia is an ethnic enclave in western Anaheim, California, the center for Orange County's Arab Americans, who number more than 24,000 (). It has been referred to as "Little Gaza" which was a riff on the nearby Garza Island neighborho ...

, an Arab-American ethnic enclave in Anaheim, California * Gaza Strip, colloquial name for

Anaheim Island, California Anaheim Island (also known as Anaheim West, Southwest Anaheim, and Garza Island) consists of several unincorporated neighborhoods located east of the city of Anaheim in Orange County, California, United States. Established between the 1910s and ...

, unincorporated area in Orange County, California

Australia

* Klemzig, South Australia, renamed ''Gaza'' from 1917 to 1935

Africa

* Gaza Empire, a former Nguni kingdom in southern Africa *

Gaza Province Gaza is a province of Mozambique. It has an area of 75,709 km2 and a population of 1,422,460 (2017 census), which is the least populous of all the provinces of Mozambique. Xai-Xai is the capital of the province. Inhambane Province is to t ...

, a province of Mozambique *

Gazaland Gazaland is the historical name for the region in southeast Africa, in modern-day Mozambique and Zimbabwe, which extends northward from the Komati River at Delagoa Bay in Mozambique's Maputo Province to the Pungwe River in central Mozambique ...

, a region in southern Mozambique and Zimbabwe

History and society

Gaza people The Gaza were Nguni people who left what is now South Africa in the early 19th century and settled in Gazaland in what is now Southern Mozambique. An early leader was Soshangane (''circa'' 1828), under whom they migrated somewhat further North ...

, a Nguni people in southern Africa * Gaza (Battle honour), a British World War I award *

Gaza Thesis The Ghaza or Ghazi thesis (from ota, غزا, ''ġazā'', "holy war," or simply "raid") is a historical paradigm first formulated by Paul Wittek which has been used to interpret the nature of the Ottoman Empire during the earliest period of i ...

, a thesis used to explain the rise of the Ottoman Empire

Popular culture

* Gaza (band), a mathcore band from Salt Lake City, Utah * ''Gaza'' (film), a 2019 Irish documentary film about the Gaza strip in Palestine * Sektor Gaza, Russian punk rock band from Voronezh (1987–2000) * "Gaza", a 2012 song by progressive rock band

Marillion Marillion are a British rock music, rock band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979. They emerged from the post-punk music scene in Britain and existed as a bridge between the styles of punk rock and classic progressive rock, becomin ...

* Gaza, warrior from Sol in the Sony PlayStation game, '' Legend of Legaia'' * "Gaza", an episode of the television program ''The West Wing'' (season 5)

Science

* ''Gaza'' (gastropod), a genus of sea snails

People

* Porphyry of Gaza (347–420), Bishop of Gaza 395–420 * Choricius of Gaza (c. 500), Greek sophist and rhetorician * Gaza Triad, three 6th Century Christian theologians from Gaza city **

Aeneas of Gaza Aeneas of Gaza (d. ''c.'' 518) was a Neo-Platonic philosopher and a convert to Christianity who flourished towards the end of the fifth century. In a dialogue entitled ''Theophrastus,'' he alludes to Hierocles of Alexandria as his teacher, and in ...

(d. 518), Neo-Platonic philosopher ** Procopius of Gaza (465–528), Christian sophist and rhetorician ** Zacharias Rhetor (d. before 553) * Dorotheus of Gaza (505–565), Christian abbot * Theodorus Gaza (1400–1475), Greek humanist * Nathan of Gaza (1643–1680), Jewish theologian