Ghazi or Gazi (), a title given to Muslim warriors or champions and used by several Ottoman Sultans, may refer to:
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Ghazi (warrior)
A ''ghazi'', or ''gazi'' (, , plural ''ġuzāt'') is an individual who participated in ''ghazw'' (, ''wikt:ghazwa, ''), meaning military expeditions or raids against non-Muslims. The latter term was applied in early Islamic literature to expedit ...
, an Islamic term for the Muslim soldier who come wounded from battle
People
Given name
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Ghazi of Iraq
Ghazi ibn Faisal () (21 March 1912 – 4 April 1939) was King of Iraq from 1933 to 1939 having been briefly Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Syria in 1920. He was born in Mecca, and was the only son of Faisal I. He died in a car accident in B ...
(1912–1939), King of the Kingdom of Iraq
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Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad
Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad (born 15 October 1966) is a Jordanian prince and a professor of philosophy. He is the son of Prince Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan and his first wife, Princess Firyal. He is a grandson of King Talal of Jordan and thus ...
(born 1966), Jordanian prince and academic
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Ghazi Aridi
Ghazi Aridi (born 17 October 1954) is a Lebanese politician who has held various cabinet portfolios. He was the minister of public works and transportation from 13 June 2011 to December 2013.
Early life
Aridi was born into a Druze family in Ba ...
(born 1954), Lebanese politician
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Gazi Evrenos
Evrenos or Evrenuz (1288–1417, Yenice-i Vardar) was an Ottoman military commander.
He served as a general under Süleyman Pasha, Murad I, Bayezid I, Süleyman Çelebi and Mehmed I. Legends stating that he lived for 129 years and had an in ...
(1288–1417), Ottoman military commander
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Ghazi Abdul Rahman Al Gosaibi
Ghazi Abdul Rahman Al Gosaibi (; 3 March 1940 – 15 August 2010) was a Saudi politician, diplomat, technocrat, poet, and novelist. He was an intellectual and a member of the Al Gosaibi family that is one of the oldest and richest trading familie ...
(1940–2010), Saudi Arabian politician, technocrat and novelist
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Ghazi Honeini (born 1995), Lebanese footballer
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Gazi Husrev-beg
Gazi Husrev Bey (, ''Gāzī Ḫusrev Beğ''; Modern Turkish: ''Gazi Hüsrev Bey''; ; 1484–1541) was an Ottoman Bosnian sanjak-bey (governor) of the Sanjak of Bosnia in 1521–1525, 1526–1534, and 1536–1541. He was known for his succes ...
(1480–1541), Bosnian bey
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Ghazi Khan
Ghazi Khan (Urdu: ) was son of Haji Khan Mirani, a Baloch chieftain who moved to Multan in the late 15th century at the behest of the Langah Sultanate. He was accompanied by his son, Ghazi Khan Mirani.
The Derajat had its existence as an histor ...
(died 1495), Baloch mercenary in Multan
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Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud
Syed Salar Masud Ghazi (10 February 1014 – 15 June 1034), also known as Ghazi Miyan, was a semi-legendary Muslim figure and military leader associated with the Ghaznavid invasions of India in the early 11th century. Born on February 10, 1014, ...
(1014-1034), Ghaznavid army general
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Ghazi Muhammad
(; ; – 1832), called Kazi-Mulla () or Kazi-Magoma () in Russian sources, was a Dagestani religious and political leader who served as the first imam (religious, political, and military leader) of Dagestan and Chechnya from 1828 to 1832. He l ...
(1793–1832), first imam of Dagestan, autonomous state of the Russian Federation
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Ghazi Ajil al-Yawer
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawar (, born 1958) is an Iraqi politician. He was the vice president under the Iraqi Transitional Government in 2006, and was interim president of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government from 2004 to 2005. He also served as ...
(born 1958), former President of Iraq
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Ghazi Shami
Ghazi Shami (Arabic: غازي شامي), is a Palestinian-American music executive, technologist, and entrepreneur, best known as the founder and CEO of Empire Distribution. Established in 2010 in San Francisco, California, Empire has grown into ...
, Palestinian-American music executive
Surname
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Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (, Harari: አሕመድ ኢብራሂም አል-ጋዚ, ; 21 July 1506 – 10 February 1543) was the Imam of the Adal Sultanate from 1527 to 1543. Commonly named Ahmed ''Gragn'' in Amharic and ''Gurey'' in Somali, ...
(1506-1543), imam and general of the Adal Empire
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Badr Al Din Abu Ghazi (1920–1983), Egyptian art critic and writer
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Emad Abu Ghazi
Emad Abu Ghazi (; born 3 January 1955) is an Egyptian professor of archival studies at the University of Cairo, who is a former minister of culture of Egypt. He has also worked as the secretary general of the supreme council of culture in Egypt.
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(born 1955), Egyptian scholar
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Ertuğrul Gazi (died c. 1280), father of Osman Gazi
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Habibullah Ghazi Habibullah () also spelled Habib Ullah, Habibollah, Habeeb-Allah, is a male Muslim given name meaning in ''Beloved of God'', stemming from the male form of the name Habib. It may refer to:
People named Habib Ullah
* Habib Ullah Khan (politici ...
(1891–1929), Emir of Afghanistan
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Osman Gazi
Osman I or Osman Ghazi (; or ''Osman Gazi''; died 1323/4) was the eponymous founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as a beylik or emirate). While initially a small Turkoman principality during Osman's lifetime, his beylik transformed in ...
(1299-1326), founder of the Ottoman dynasty
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Abdul Rashid Ghazi
Abdul Rashid Ghazi ( – 10 July 2007) was a Pakistanis, Pakistani Islamic scholar and diplomat-turned Islamism, Islamist dissident who served as khatib of Lal Masjid, Islamabad, Lal Masjid and the Vice-chancellor, Chief Executive (President) of ...
(1964–2007), Islamic fundamentalist and Chancellor Faridia University
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Moosa Ghazi
Moosa Ghazi (; 1937 – 12 May 2003) was a Pakistani Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), left winger. Ghazi represented the Pakistan national football team in the 1950s to 1960s, and was member of the ...
, (1938–2003), Pakistani footballer
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Abid Ghazi
Abid Hussain Ghazi (; 1934 – 14 January 2016) was a Pakistani footballer who played as a midfielder. He is considered one of the greatest Pakistani footballers of the 1950s and 1960s, and also captained the Pakistan national football team.
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, (1935–2013), Pakistani footballer
Places
Afghanistan
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Ghazi Stadium
Ghazi Stadium (; ) is a multi-purpose stadium located southeast of the Shahr-e Naw neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, across from Chaman-e-Hozori and Eidgah Mosque. The stadium is mainly used for local football training and matches. Nearby are ...
, multi-purpose stadium in Kabul
Greece
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Gazi, Athens
Gazi (, ; formerly Γκαζοχώρι ''Gazochori'' or Φωταέριο ''Fotaerio'') is a neighborhood of Athens, Greece. It surrounds the old Athens gasworks, which is the industrial museum and exhibition space "Technopolis", widely known as Gaz ...
, a neighborhood in Athens, Greece
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Gazi, Crete
Gazi () is a Western suburb of Heraklion and a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit of Crete in Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality Malevizi, of which it is a municipal unit. It lies ...
, a town in Greece
Iran
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Ghazi, Iran
Qazi () is a city in, and the capital of, Samalqan District of Samalqan County, North Khorasan province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders I ...
, a city in North Khorasan Province
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Gazi, Hormozgan
Gazi (, also Romanized as Gazī) is a village in Kangan Rural District, in the Central District of Jask County, Hormozgan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in Wes ...
, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
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Ghazi Rural District
Qazi Rural District () is in Samalqan District of Samalqan County, North Khorasan province, Iran. It is administered from the city of Qazi.
Demographics Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population ...
, an administrative subdivision of North Khorasan Province, Iran
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Gazi, Sistan and Baluchestan
Gazi Zehi (, also Romanized as Gazī Zehī; also known as Gaze’ī-ye Pā’īn, Gazezai, Gazī, Gaz’ī-ye Pā’īn, Gazo’ī Pā‘īn, Qārezā’ī, Qāzeh Zā’ī, Qāzeh Zāy, and Qazo‘ī Pā‘īn) is a village in Talang Rural Distri ...
, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
Kosovo
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Gazimestan
Gazimestan (, , ) is the name of a memorial site and monument commemorating the Battle of Kosovo (1389), situated about 6–7 kilometres southeast of the actual battlefield, known as the Kosovo field. Gazimestan is accessible from the Pristina– ...
, a memorial site and monument dedicated to Gazi Evrenos in Pristina
Pakistan
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Ghazi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Ghazi () is an administrative subdivision of Haripur District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by pop ...
, a town
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Dera Ghazi Khan District
Dera Ghazi Khan (, Punjabi language, Punjabi: ) is a Districts of Pakistan, district in Punjab, Pakistan. Its administrative capital is Dera Ghazi Khan.
The district lies to the west of the Indus River. The Sulaiman Mountains rise to a height ...
Turkey
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Gaziantep
Gaziantep, historically Aintab and still informally called Antep, is a major city in south-central Turkey. It is the capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Medi ...
, a city in Turkey
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Gazi University
Gazi University () is a Public university, public research university located primarily in Ankara, Turkey.
It was founded in 1926 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk originally as the Gazi Education Institute (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Gazi Eğitim Ens ...
Other uses
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PNS ''Ghazi'', a Pakistan Navy submarine sunk in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, formerly known as USS ''Diablo'' (SS-479)
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The Ghazi Attack
''Ghazi'' is a 2017 Indian war film written and directed by Sankalp Reddy. The film is produced in the Telugu cinema, Telugu film industry, and is shot simultaneously in Telugu language, Telugu and Hindi languages, with the latter titled ''The G ...
'', also known as ''Ghazi'', a 2017 Indian war film
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Gazi (disambiguation)
Gazi, Gaji or Ghazi may refer to:
* A gazi or ghāzī is a frontier warrior in Islam.
People
* Gazi or Ghazi is also used as an honorific Muslim and specifically Ottoman title that appears in the names of many historic figures, notably:
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Gaza (disambiguation)
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Khasi (disambiguation)
Khasi may refer to:
* Khasi people, an ethnic group of Meghalaya, India
* Khasi language, a major Austroasiatic language spoken in Meghalaya, India
* Khāṣi language, an Indo-Aryan language of Jammu and Kashmir, India
See also
* Khasi Hills
* Gh ...
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Razzia (disambiguation)
Razzia (Italian and other languages, 'raid') may refer to:
Raids
* Ghazw, military expeditions as described in early Islamic literature
* Razzia (military), surprise attacks against an enemy settlement
* a slave raid conducted by Barbary pirates
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