The following is a list of rulers of Gaza. During Mamluk and early Ottoman rule, Gaza served as the capital of a province which at times included most of central and southern Palestine or the coastal plain up to Jaffa.
Ancient Egyptian Addaya (c. 1350 BC)
Kingdoms of Philistia Hanunu (c. 734 BC) Sil-Bel (c. 701-669 BC)
Achaemenid Batis (d. 332 BCE)
Herodian kingdom Costobarus (d. c. 27-25 BC)
Ayyubids
Nasir al-Din (1244–1245)
Mamluks
Shams el-Din al-Barli (1259–1264) Baybars al-Ala'i (1307–1309) Baktamur (1310–1311) Sanjar al-Jawli (1311–1320) Muhammad ibn Baktamur (1320–1329) Turuntay al-Jukandari (1329–1332) Taynal al-Ashrafi (1332–1335) Sanjar al-Jawli (1342) Ahmad al-Hajji (1373–1375) Muhammad al-Adili (1375) Akbugha al-Safawi (1375–1381)Muḥammad Ibn-Muḥammad Ibn-Ṣaṣrā, A Chronicle of Damascus 1389-1397, University of California Press, p.15. Husam ad-Din Bakish (1382) Aqbugha al-Tulutumari (?-1398) Sayf ad-Din Inal al-Ala'i (1428–1433) Timraz al-Mu'ayyadi (ca 1436–1437)Mayer, 1933, pp. 230-231 Yalkhuja an-Nasiri (1445–1446) Sibay az-Zahiri (ca. 1482) Aqbay al-Ashrafi (1482–1494)Sharon, 1999, p. 150 Qani Bak (1494–1495) Aqbay al-Ashrafi (1495–1496) Dawlat Bay (1501–1517)
Ottoman
Sharaf ad-Din Musa al-Muzaffari (1517–1524) Kara Şahin Mustafa (1524–1550) Ridwan Pasha (1550–1565) Sinan Bey (1565–1567) Ridwan Pasha (1567–1572) Ahmad ibn Ridwan (1572–1601) Hasan Arab Ridwan (1601–1660) Husayn Pasha (1660–1663) Musa Pasha (1663–1679) Ahmad ibn Musa Pasha (1679–1690) Sayed Ahmad (1708–1723) Salih Pasha Touqan (1723–?) Uthman Pasha (1760–1773)The province of Damascus, 1723-1783. Khayats, 1966. p. 256. Zahir al-Umar (1773–1774) Suleiman Pasha (1804–1805) Muhammad Abu Marraq (1805–1807) Muhammad Abu-Nabbut (1807–1818) Mustafa Bey (1818–1820) Abdullah Pasha (1820–1831) Mas'ud al-Madi (1831–1834) Mahmud Abd al-Hadi (1849) Ahmad Rifaat Bak ash-Sharkasi (ca. 1868)
See also History of Gaza
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