Zia or ZIA (also spelled Ziya, Ḍiya, Dia or Diya) may refer to:
People
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Zia (name) Zia (also spelled Ziya, Ḍiya , Dia or Diya, ) is a name of Arabic origin somewhat translating to "Shine".
Notable people with this name include:
Given name
*Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi military officer and politician who served as the sixth Pr ...
, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
** A romanization of the
Wu (
Shanghainese
The Shanghainese language, also known as the Shanghai dialect, or Hu language, is a variety of Wu Chinese spoken in the central districts of the city of Shanghai and its surrounding areas. It is classified as part of the Sino-Tibetan langua ...
) pronunciation of the Chinese surname
Xie (謝)
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Zia people (New Mexico)
The Zia () or Tsʾíiyʾamʾé are an indigenous nation centered at Zia Pueblo, New Mexico, Zia Pueblo (Tsi'ya), a Native American reservation in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The Zia are known for their pottery and use of the sun symbol. They a ...
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Zia people (Papua New Guinea)
The Zia are a people of about 4,000 people living in the lower Waria Valley in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. The Zia are divided into four clans, Bego (''hornbill
Hornbills are birds found in tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia and ...
** The
Zia language of Papua New Guinea
ZIA acronym
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Zamboanga International Airport, Philippines
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Zhukovsky International Airport
Zhukovsky (), formerly (and still occasionally) known as Ramenskoye () is an international airport, located in Moscow Oblast, Russia, southeast of central Moscow, in the city of Zhukovsky, a few kilometers south-east of the closed Bykovo Airp ...
, Russia
* Zia International Airport, Bangladesh, now
Shahjalal International Airport
Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport Dhaka (; ) is the main international airport serving Dhaka City, the capital city of Bangladesh, and it is the largest airport in the country. It is located in Kurmitola, from the city centre, in the ...
* ZIA, a musical group founded by
Elaine Walker
Other uses
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''Zia'' (brachiopod), a genus of
brachiopod
Brachiopods (), phylum (biology), phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Brachiopod valves are hinged at the rear e ...
s
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''Zia'' (novel), by Scott O'Dell
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Applebay Zia
The Applebay Zia is an American, single-seat, high-wing, twin-boom, pusher configuration motor glider
A motor glider is a fixed-wing aircraft that can be flown with or without engine power. The FAI Gliding Commission Sporting Code definiti ...
, motor glider
* Zia, a small village on the Greek island of
Kos
Kos or Cos (; ) is a Greek island, which is part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Kos is the third largest island of the Dodecanese, after Rhodes and Karpathos; it has a population of 37,089 (2021 census), making ...
* Zia clan of the Diné, or
Navajo
The Navajo or Diné are an Indigenous people of the Southwestern United States. Their traditional language is Diné bizaad, a Southern Athabascan language.
The states with the largest Diné populations are Arizona (140,263) and New Mexico (1 ...
, people
* Zia Record Exchange, a regional chain of
record shop
A record shop or record store is a retail outlet that sells Sound recording and reproduction, recorded music. Per the name, in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, record shops only sold gramophone records. But over the course of t ...
s located across the American Southwest
See also
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Sia (disambiguation)
Sia (born 1975) is an Australian singer and songwriter.
Sia or SIA may also refer to:
Organizations
* Secret Intelligence Australia, a British World War II intelligence unit
* Security Industry Association, for makers and handlers of electro ...
* Tzia or Zia (Greek: ''Τζια''), an alternative name for
Kea (island)
Kea (), also known as Tzia () and in ancient history, antiquity Keos (, ), is a Greece, Greek island in the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Kea is part of the Kea-Kythnos regional unit.
Geography
It is the List of islands of Greece, isla ...
, Cyclades, Greece
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Ziya Ziya () is a Turkish given name for males and females, it is of Arabic origin, in Turkish ''Ziya'' means ''light''.
* Ziya Doğan, Turkish football manager
* Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist
* Nazmi Ziya Güran, Turkish impressionist painter
* Z ...
, the Turkish spelling of the Arabic name
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Ziaur a compound name beginning with "Zia"
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Ziauddin a common transliteration a common name
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