Gazi (disambiguation)
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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:
- Gazi Saiyyed Salar Sahu (early 11th century), army commander of Mahmad Ghaznavi
- Gazi Evrenos (1288–1417)
- Osman al-Ghazi (1299–1326)
- Gazi Pir (12th or 13th century), Bengali Muslim saint
- Gazi Chelebi (14th century), pirate and ruler of Sinop, Turkey
- Gazi-Husrev Beg (1480–1541), Bosnian bey
- Gazi Osman Pasha (1832–1897), Ottoman field marshal
- Gazi Mustafa Kemal (1881–1938), the name of Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, until the Turkish Surname Law of 1934
- Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil (born 1925), Turkish medical scientist and neurosurgeon
- Gazi Mazharul Anwar, Bangladeshi film director, producer, lyricist, screenwriter, freedom fighter and music director
Places
- Gazi, Athens, a neighbourhood in Athens, Greece
- Gazi, Crete, a town in Greece
- Gazi, Hormozgan, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
- Gazi, Istanbul, a neighborhood in Istanbul, Turkey
- Gazi, North Khorasan, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
- Gazi, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
- Gazi, Sistan and Baluchestan, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
- Gaziantep, a city in Turkey
Other uses
- Gazi University, a university in Ankara, Turkey
- Gazi Thesis, a historiographical thesis used to explain the rise of the Ottoman Empire
- Gazi Group Cricketers, a Bangladeshi cricket team owned by the Gazi Group of companies
