Gazi (disambiguation)
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Gazi or ghazi can refer to several, related, things:
- A gazi or ghāzī is a frontier warrior in Islam.
- 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 Chelebi, pirate and 14th century ruler of Sinop.
- Gazi Evrenos (1288-1417)
- Gazi-Husrev Beg, a Bosnian bey (1480-1541)
- Gazi Osman Pasha (1832-1897)
- The city of Gazi Antep
- Mahmut Gazi Yasargil
- "The Gazi" is also used to refer to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey.
- Gazi, Crete is a town 6 km west of Heraklion, Crete.
- Gazi University is a university located in Ankara, Turkey