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Gaza

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ1395229 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gaza most commonly refers to:

Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea

Gaza City, a city in the Gaza Strip

Gaza may also refer to:

Places

Africa

Gaza Empire, a former Nguni kingdom in southern Africa

Gaza Province, a province of Mozambique

Gazaland, a region in southern Mozambique and Zimbabwe

Middle East

Gaza Governorate, a governorate in the Gaza Strip

Gaza District, one of the districts of Mandatory Palestine

Gaza Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine

Ghazzeh, a city in the Western Beqaa District

United States

Gaza, Iowa, an unincorporated community

Gaza, a village in the town of Sanbornton, New Hampshire

Gaza Strip, colloquial name for Anaheim Island, California, an unincorporated area in Orange County, California

Little Gaza, nickname for Little Arabia, an Arab-American ethnic enclave in Anaheim, California

Elsewhere

Gaza, Karlovac, a section of the city of Karlovac, Croatia

Klemzig, South Australia, renamed Gaza from 1917 to 1935

Historical events

Gaza genocide

Gaza war

Gaza war protests

Arts and media

Film and television

Gaza (film), a 2019 Irish documentary film about the Gaza strip in Palestine

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a 2025 documentary

"Gaza", an episode of the television program The West Wing (season 5)

Music

Gaza (band), a mathcore band from Salt Lake City, Utah

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

"Gaza", a 2012 song by progressive rock band Marillion

Other media

Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom, a 2018 book by Norman Finkelstein

Gaza, a warrior in the PlayStation game Legend of Legaia

People

Populations

Gaza people, a Nguni people in southern Africa

Individuals

In entertainment

Mattie Lee Price (1869–1899), American performance artist, used 'Gaza' as a stage name

Xian Gaza (born 1993), Filipino internet personality and businessman

In philosophy and religion

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.

Editorial summary

“Gaza” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gaza, Wikimedia and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1917, 1935, 2019, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gaza, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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Why this record matters

“Gaza” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gaza, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1395229. Authority coordinates are 31.511, 34.458. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1917, 1935, 2019 and 2025.

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