Gaza (disambiguation)

Gaza is the largest city in the Gaza Strip. Gaza also may refer to:

Middle East

Places

• Gaza City
• District of Gaza, administrative district in the British Mandate of Palestine until 1948.
• Gaza Strip
• Sanjak of Gaza
• Gaza Governorate, subdivision of the Palestinian National Authority located in north central Gaza Strip
• Yasser Arafat International Airport, known as the Gaza Airport

Events

• Battle of Gaza (disambiguation)
• Gaza beach explosion (2006)
• Gaza flotilla raid (2010)

Politics

• Gaza Division, Israeli military command
• Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, also known as the Gaza pull-out plan
• Free Gaza Movement, political coalition, (2008)
• Israel–Gaza Strip barrier, physical barrier between Israel and the Gaza Strip, (1994- )
• Gaza ghetto a film about Palestinian refugee life

See also

• Gaza–Israel conflict

Fictional

• Gaza (The West Wing), an episode of the television program The West Wing

Africa

• Gaza (chief), 18th Century chief of the Nguni people in southern Africa
• Gaza Empire, Nguni kingdom in southern Africa, (1819-1895)
• Gaza people, a Nguni people in southern Africa
• Gazaland, region in southern Mozambique and Zimbabwe
• Gaza Province, province of Mozambique

Australia

• A temporary post-WWI rename of Klemzig, South Australia

North America

• Gaza, New Hampshire, village in the town of Sanbornton, New Hampshire
• Gaza Strip, colloquial name for Anaheim Island, California, unincorporated area in Orange County, California
• Little Gaza, middle-eastern community (ethnic enclave) in Anaheim, California

Russia

• Sektor Gaza, Russian punk rock band from Voronezh, (1987-2000)

People

(chronological by earliest date)

• Porphyry of Gaza (347–420), Bishop of Gaza 395 - 420
• Choricius of Gaza (c.500), Greek sophist and rhetorician
• Zosimus of Gaza (c.500), Greek sophist and grammarian
• Gaza Triad, three 6th Century Christian theologians from Gaza city
  • Aeneas of Gaza (d.518), Neo-Platonic philosopher
  • Procopius of Gaza (c.465-528), Christian sophist and rhetorician
  • Zacharias Scholasticus (Zachariah Rhetor) (d. before 553)
• Dorotheus of Gaza (505-565), Christian abbot
• Theodorus Gaza (c.1400–1475), Greek humanist
• Nathan of Gaza (1643–1680), Jewish theologian

Music

• Gaza (band), a mathcore band from Salt Lake City, Utah
• Portmore Gaza, a music group in Kingston Jamaica developed by dancehall artiste Adijahim "Vybz kartel" Palmer.

Fictional

• Gaza (comics), Marvel Comics character
• Gaza, warrior from Sol in the Sony Playstation game, Legend of Legaia

See also

• Gazza (disambiguation)