Gazi (disambiguation)

Gazi or Ghazi may refer to:

• A gazi or ghāzÄ« 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 (died 1032), army commander of Mahmad Ghaznavi
• Gazi Evrenos, Ottoman military commander
• Osman al-Ghazi (1299–1326). founder of the Ottoman Empire
• Gazi Pir, Bengali Muslim saint
• Gazi Chelebi, 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
• Gazi Mazharul Anwar (1943–2022), Bangladeshi film director, producer and lyricist
• Gazi Yaşargil (1925–2025), Turkish medical scientist and neurosurgeon

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 language, a Central Iranian language of Iran
• Gazi University, a university in Ankara, Turkey
• Gazi Thesis, a historiographical thesis used to explain the rise of the Ottoman Empire
• Gazi Group, a Bangladeshi conglomerate company
• Gazi Group Cricketers, a Bangladeshi cricket team owned by the Gazi Group of companies

See also

• Ghazi (disambiguation)
• Kazi (disambiguation)
• Kasi (disambiguation)
• Razzia (military)