Gaza Explained

Gaza may refer to:

Places

Palestine

• Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea
  • Gaza City, a city in the Gaza Strip
  • Gaza Governorate, a governorate in the Gaza Strip

Mandatory Palestine

• Gaza Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine

Lebanon

• Ghazzeh, a village in the Western Beqaa District

United States

• Gaza, Iowa, an unincorporated community
• Gaza, a village in the town of Sanbornton, New Hampshire
• Little Gaza, an Arab-American ethnic enclave in Anaheim, California
• Gaza Strip, colloquial name for Anaheim Island, California, unincorporated area in Orange County, California

Australia

• Klemzig, South Australia, renamed Gaza from 1917 to 1935

Africa

• Gaza Empire, a former Nguni kingdom in southern Africa
• Gaza Province, a province of Mozambique
• Gazaland, a region in southern Mozambique and Zimbabwe

History and society

• Gaza people, a Nguni people in southern Africa
• Gaza (Battle honour), a British World War I award
• Gaza Thesis, a thesis used to explain the rise of the Ottoman Empire

Literature

• , a 2018 book by Norman Finkelstein

Popular culture

• Gaza (band), a mathcore band from Salt Lake City, Utah
• Gaza (film), a 2019 Irish documentary film about the Gaza strip in Palestine
• Sektor Gaza, Russian punk rock band from Voronezh (1987–2000)
• "Gaza", a 2012 song by progressive rock band Marillion
• Gaza, warrior from Sol in the Sony PlayStation game, Legend of Legaia
• "Gaza", an episode of the television program The West Wing (season 5)

Science

• Gaza (gastropod), a genus of sea snails

People

• Porphyry of Gaza (347–420), Bishop of Gaza 395–420
• Rabbi Gaza (c. 400), Talmudic sage, contemporary of Ravina I (appears in Shabbat 145b and Yevamot 45b)
• Choricius of Gaza (c. 500), Greek sophist and rhetorician
• Gaza Triad, three 6th Century Christian theologians from Gaza city
  • Aeneas of Gaza (d. 518), Neo-Platonic philosopher
  • Procopius of Gaza (465–528), Christian sophist and rhetorician
  • Zacharias Rhetor (d. before 553)
• Dorotheus of Gaza (505–565), Christian abbot
• Theodorus Gaza (1400–1475), Greek humanist
• Nathan of Gaza (1643–1680), Jewish theologian
• Xian Gaza (born 1993), Filipino internet personality and businessman

See also

• Wadi Gaza, a wadi (river) in Palestine
• Gazza (disambiguation)
• Gazan (disambiguation)
• Ghazi (disambiguation)