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Hadzi is an honorific title given to a people who make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre is almost always meant. The title is rendered as хаджи (hadzhi) in Bulgarian Cyrillic, and хаџи (hadži) in Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic It can often be found in family names, whether written together, hyphenated or separate, of people who descend from pilgrims from the times of the Ottoman Empire. The Holy Sepulchre (The Tomb of Christ) has been an important pilgrimage destination since the 4th century.