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:
  • 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, a Bosnian bey (1480–1541)
  • Gazi Osman Pasha (1832–1897), Ottoman field marshal
• "The Gazi" is also used to refer to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938), the founder of the Republic of Turkey
• Mahmut Gazi Yasargil (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
• Gazi, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan 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

See also

• Ghazi (disambiguation)
• Kazi (disambiguation)
• Kasi (disambiguation)