Gazette
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The term '''gazette''' normally refers to a [[newspaper]].
In the governments of [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] countries, a gazette is an official [[journal]] that publishes the texts of the new [[law]]s and government decisions.
The word comes from ''gazzetta'', a [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]] coin used to buy early Italian newspapers; the coin became a name for the papers themselves. The word was [[loanword|loaned]] into [[English language|English]] to describe a newspaper.
"Gazette" came to be used for an official government paper with the creation of the ''[[London Gazette]]'', first published in 1665 under the title of ''The Oxford Gazette''. This was one of the first publications in the world that could be termed a "newspaper". The ''[[Edinburgh Gazette]]'' came into existence in 1699, the ''[[Iris Oifigiúil|Dublin Gazette]]'' in 1706 and the ''[[Belfast Gazette]]'' appeared in 1921.
"Gazette", by extension, has come to be used as the name of mainstream newspapers in the print media, such as the ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'' (for others in this genre, see [[The Gazette]]).
The word "gazette" is also used as a [[transitive verb]], meaning to announce or publish in a gazette: "[[Nakuru|Lake Nakuru]] was gazetted as a bird sanctuary in 1960, then was upgraded to [[National Park]] status in 1968."
==Official gazettes==
In some countries, publication in the official gazette is a condition for official documentation to [[come into effect]] and be released in the [[public domain]], for example [[The Royal Gazette (Thailand)|The Royal Gazette of Thailand]].
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