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Gazan Christians
Gazan Christians, also known as Christianity in Gaza, are the small Christian community of the Gaza Strip, mostly Greek Orthodox, numbering about 1,000 before the 2023 war.
Gazanfer Bilge
Gazanfer Bilge, Turkish freestyle wrestler (born Karamürsel 1923 or 1924, died Istanbul 2008), 1948 London Olympic featherweight gold medalist and 1946 European 62 kg champion, later a bus company founder and philanthropist.
Gazania cultivars
Gazania cultivars are named ornamental selections of the South African daisy genus Gazania, sold as F1 seed series like Kiss and New Day and valued for drought tolerance.
Gazankulu
Gazankulu was a Shangaan and Tsonga Bantustan, or homeland, created by apartheid South Africa west of the Kruger National Park, with its capital at Giyani from 1973 to 1994.
Gaze
Gaze: in social cognition, the direction of another's visual attention, studied via the gaze-cueing paradigm introduced by Friesen and Kingstone (1998); in psychoanalytic theory, Lacan's gaze as object a of the scopic drive, distinct from Sartre's account.
Gaze estimation
Gaze estimation is the computer vision task of determining where a person is looking, as a 3D direction or a point on a screen, from images of the face and eyes.
Gaze in social robotics
Gaze in social robotics is the use of a robot's eye and head orientation as a nonverbal signal, studied for joint attention, turn-taking, and task coordination with humans.
Gaze-evoked nystagmus
Gaze-evoked nystagmus (GEN, 注視誘発眼振) is jerk nystagmus on eccentric gaze from neural integrator impairment; the most common clinical nystagmus, poorly localizing, caused by drugs, cerebellar disease, MS, and alcohol.
Gazebo
A gazebo is a roofed structure, usually open on the sides, built in gardens and parks for shade and views; the word first appeared in English in 1752.
Gazela Pipeline
The Gazela pipeline is a 166-kilometer high-pressure natural gas pipeline in the Czech Republic, commissioned in 2013 to carry Nord Stream gas across Czech territory toward southern Germany.
Gazella cuvieri
Gazella cuvieri, the Cuvier's gazelle, also called the Edmi or Atlas gazelle, is a dark-coated gazelle endemic to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, listed as Vulnerable.
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella leptoceros, the slender-horned or Rhim gazelle (F. Cuvier, 1842), is an Endangered dune-dwelling gazelle endemic to the Sahara from Algeria to Egypt, with roughly 300–600 mature individuals and CITES Appendix I listing.
Gazelle
Gazelle, common name for small fast antelopes of tribe Antilopini (genera Gazella, Nanger, Eudorcas, Procapra); paraphyletic assemblage, Middle East origin 10-3 Mya, stotting antipredator behavior, several threatened or extinct species.
GAZelle (ГАЗе́ль)
The GAZelle (ГАЗе́ль), also known as the GAZ Gazelle, is a family of light commercial vehicles, vans, and minibuses built by GAZ in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, since 1994.
GAZelle NEXT (ГАЗель NEXT)
GAZelle NEXT (ГАЗель NEXT) is a family of light commercial vehicles from GAZ, produced in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, since 2013 as the second-generation GAZelle; serial production opened on 9 April 2013.
Gazelle optimization algorithm
The gazelle optimization algorithm (GOA) is a swarm-based metaheuristic, introduced by Agushaka, Ezugwu, and Abualigah in 2022, that mimics gazelles' predator-escape strategies to solve numerical and engineering optimization problems.
Gazeta de Notícias
Gazeta de Notícias was a daily newspaper in Rio de Janeiro, founded in 1875 by José Ferreira de Sousa Araújo to fight for abolition and the Republic, published until 1942.
Gazeta Wyborcza
Gazeta Wyborcza (Electoral Gazette) is a Polish national daily founded 8 May 1989 under the Round Table agreements as Solidarity's election organ, edited by Adam Michnik, published by Agora, Poland's leading opinion paper.
Gazette
Gazette: an official government publication (official gazette) notifying legislation, regulations, and government decisions; in most countries laws take effect on gazette publication, from the London Gazette (1665) to the EU e-OJ (2013).
Gazi Evrenos
Gazi Evrenos, also written Evrenos Bey, was an Ottoman marcher lord who led the conquest and settlement of Thrace and Macedonia from the 1350s until his death in 1417.
Gazi Husrev Bey
Gazi Husrev Bey (Gazi Husrev-beg, 1480–1541), Ottoman sanjak-bey of Bosnia and grandson-in-law line of Sultan Bayezid II, built Sarajevo's mosque, Kuršumlija madrasa, and 1537 library waqf.
Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque
The Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque (Bosnian: Gazi Husrev-begova džamija), locally Begova Mosque, is a 16th-century Ottoman mosque in Sarajevo built in 1530/31 by Gazi Husrev-beg, one of Bosnia's largest.
Gazi II Giray
Gazi II Giray (II Гази Герай, 1554–1607), nicknamed Bora (Storm), reigned twice as khan of the Crimean Khanate, 1588–1596 and 1596–1607, and wrote poetry as Gazâyî.
Gaziantep
Gaziantep, large city in southeastern Türkiye, first UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy in the country (2015). Known for its Iron Age culinary heritage, Zeugma mosaics, export-driven industry, large Syrian refugee population, and 2023 earthquake recovery.
Gaziantep Zoo
Gaziantep Zoo (Gaziantep Doğal Yaşam Parkı), a municipal zoo established 2001 in Gaziantep's Burç Forest, Türkiye's largest with about 8,000 animals of 400 species, first Turkish safari park, and a zoology museum.
Gazing at Mount Tai
"Gazing at Mount Tai" (Wang yue) is an early poem by Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, written around 736 and ending with a famous couplet about youthful ambition.
Gazing at the Waterfall on Mount Lu
Gazing at the Waterfall on Mount Lu is the shared title of two poems by the Tang poet Li Bai describing a waterfall on Mount Lu.
Gazini Ganados
Gazini Christiana Jordi Acopiado Ganados, Filipino-Palestinian beauty queen born 1995 in Dapitan; Miss Universe Philippines 2019, Miss Universe 2019 Top 20, Best National Costume winner with a Philippine eagle costume, later MGI All Stars Top 5.
Gazino
A gazino is a Turkish nightclub combining live music, dining, and drinking, chiefly in Istanbul, where stars like Zeki Müren built their fame before the format faded by the early 2000s.
Gaziosmanpaşa
Gaziosmanpaşa (old name Taşlıtarla) is a district on Istanbul's European side, named after Gazi Osman Pasha. Made a district in 1963, it peaked at over 1 million residents in 2007 before being split, and is a major urban transformation site.