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- This article is about the Turkish administrative unit. For other uses, see Kaza (disambiguation)
A kaza, qaza, or qazaa (Ottoman Turkish قضاء /kazaː/) was an administrative unit of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman pronunciation of the Arabic qadaa.
In the Republic of Turkey, a kaza was an administrative district governed by a kaymakam; it is now called an ilçe.
In the Ottoman Empire, it was an administrative district subject to the jurisdiction of a judge (qazi). It was a subdivision of a sanjak and corresponded roughly to a city with its surrounding villages.