Gaza may refer to:
Places
Palestine
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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
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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
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Gaza Governorate
The Gaza Governorate ( ar, محافظة غزة '), also alternatively known as Gaza City Governorate, is one of the 16 Governorates of Palestine, located in the north central Gaza Strip. Gaza is claimed by the State of Palestine, but the land i ...
, a governorate in the Gaza Strip
Lebanon
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Ghazzeh
Ghazzeh ( ar, غزة), is a village located in the Western Beqaa District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country ...
, a village in the Western Beqaa District
United States
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Gaza, Iowa, an unincorporated community
* Gaza, a village in the town of
Sanbornton, New Hampshire
Sanbornton is a town in Belknap County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,026 at the 2020 census. It includes the villages of North Sanbornton and Gaza.
History
Located in the fork of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers, ...
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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 neighborhoods. ...
, an Arab-American ethnic enclave in Anaheim, California
* Gaza Strip, colloquial name for
Anaheim Island, California, unincorporated area in Orange County, California
Australia
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Klemzig, South Australia
Klemzig is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. It was the first settlement of German immigrants in Australia and was named after the village of Klemzig in what was then German Prussia and is now Klępsk in western Polan ...
, renamed ''Gaza'' from 1917 to 1935
Africa
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Gaza Empire
The Gaza Empire (1824–1895) was an African empire established by general Soshangane and was located in southeastern Africa in the area of southern Mozambique and southeastern Zimbabwe. The Gaza Empire, at its height in the 1860s, covered a ...
, a former Nguni kingdom in southern Africa
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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
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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.
Hi ...
, a region in southern Mozambique and Zimbabwe
History and society
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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
Soshangana KaZikode (), born Soshangana Nxumalo, was the Founder ...
, a Nguni people in southern Africa
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Gaza (Battle honour) Gaza was a battle honour awarded to units of the British and Imperial Armies that took part in one or more of the following engagements in the Great War:T.F. MillPalestine 1917-1918(archive of Regiments.org page)
*First Battle of Gaza, 26 Mar 1917
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, a British World War I award
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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 it ...
, a thesis used to explain the rise of the Ottoman Empire
Popular culture
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Gaza (band)
Gaza was an American metalcore band from Salt Lake City, Utah.
Formed in 2004, they were signed to Black Market Activities and released one extended play and three full-length albums. They are known for their complex and heavy sound, as well a ...
, a mathcore band from Salt Lake City, Utah
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''Gaza'' (film), a 2019 Irish documentary film about the Gaza strip in Palestine
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Sektor Gaza
''Sektor Gaza'' (russian: link=no, italic=yes, Сектор Газа, translated as ''Gas Sector'') was a Soviet and Russian punk rock band from Voronezh, founded in 1987 by Yuri Klinskikh.
History
Sektor Gaza was founded in Voronezh by Yu ...
, 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
is a turn-based role-playing video game. It is followed by ''Legaia 2: Duel Saga''.
Gameplay
The player selects a target during battle. Each character performs on the phase based on status. The player sees corresponding vertical strikes. Each di ...
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* "Gaza", an episode of the television program
''The West Wing'' (season 5)
Science
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''Gaza'' (gastropod), a genus of sea snails
People
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Porphyry of Gaza
Saint Porphyrius ( la, Porphyrius; grc-gre, Πορφύριος, ''Porphyrios''; Slavonic: Порфирий, ''Porfiriy''; –420) was bishop of Gaza from 395 to 420, known, from the account in his ''Life'', for Christianizing the recalcitrant p ...
(347–420), Bishop of Gaza 395–420
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Choricius of Gaza Choricius of Gaza ( el, Χορίκιος) was a Gaza-based Greek sophist and rhetorician of Late Antiquity. With writings dating to the early sixth century, he flourished in the time of Anastasius I (AD 491–518) as a scholar and public orator. H ...
(c. 500), Greek sophist and rhetorician
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Gaza Triad The Gaza Triad refers collectively to Aeneas of Gaza, Procopius of Gaza and Zacharias Scholasticus
Zacharias of Mytilene (c. 465, Gaza – after 536), also known as Zacharias Scholasticus or Zacharias Rhetor, was a bishop and ecclesiastical hist ...
, three 6th Century Christian theologians from Gaza city
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Aeneas of Gaza (d. 518), Neo-Platonic philosopher
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Procopius of Gaza
Procopius of Gaza ( 465–528 AD) was a Christians, Christian sophist and rhetorician, one of the most important representatives of the famous Rhetorical School of Gaza, school of his native place.Vikan, Gary, Alexander Kazhdan, and Zvi 'Uri Ma ...
(465–528), Christian sophist and rhetorician
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Zacharias Rhetor
Zacharias of Mytilene (c. 465, Gaza – after 536), also known as Zacharias Scholasticus or Zacharias Rhetor, was a bishop and ecclesiastical historian.
Life
The life of Zacharias of Mytilene can be reconstructed only from a few scattered repo ...
(d. before 553)
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Dorotheus of Gaza
Dorotheus of Gaza ( grc-gre, Δωρόθεος τῆς Γάζης ''Dorotheos tes Gazes''; 505 – 565 or 620,) or Abba Dorotheus, was a Christianity, Christian monk and abbot.
Life
He joined the monastery Abba Serid (or Abba Sveridus) near Gaza C ...
(505–565), Christian abbot
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Theodorus Gaza
Theodorus Gaza ( el, Θεόδωρος Γαζῆς, ''Theodoros Gazis''; it, Teodoro Gaza; la, Theodorus Gazes), also called Theodore Gazis or by the epithet Thessalonicensis (in Latin) and Thessalonikeus (in Greek) (c. 1398 – c. 1475), wa ...
(1400–1475), Greek humanist
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Nathan of Gaza
Nathan of Gaza ( he, נתן העזתי; 1643–1680) or Nathan Benjamin ben Elisha Hayyim haLevi Ashkenazi or Ghazzati) was a theologian and author born in Jerusalem. After his marriage in 1663 he moved to Gaza, where he became famous as a prophe ...
(1643–1680), Jewish theologian
See also
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Gazza (disambiguation)
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Ghazi (warrior)
A ''ghazi'' ( ar, غازي, , plural ''ġuzāt'') is an individual who participated in ''ghazw'' (, ''wikt:ghazwa, ''), meaning military expeditions or raiding. The latter term was applied in early Islamic literature to expeditions led by the Is ...
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