The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yazd, Iran.
Prior to 20th century
edit- 749 - Abu-Moslem Khorasani in power.[1]
- 1051 - Kakuyid Faramurz in power.[2]
- 1070 - Ali ibn Faramurz in power (approximate date).
- 1119 - Masjed-e ʿAtiq (Friday Mosque) built by ʿAlāʿ-al-Dawla Garšāsp.[3]
- 1141 - Atabegs of Yazd in power.
- 1228/1229 - Mahmud Shah in power.[2]
- 1271/1272 - Ala al-Dawla in power.[2]
- 1274/1275 - Flood.[2]
- 14th century CE - Muin al-Din Yazdi writes history of Yazd.[4]
- 1307/1308 - Duvazdah Imam (tomb) built.[5]
- 1318 - Muzaffarid Mubariz al-Din Muhammad becomes governor.[3]
- 1320 - Shah Kamal madrasa built.[5]
- 1324 - Jame Mosque of Yazd built.[6]
- 1325
- Madrasa-ye Rokniya built.[3][5]
- Italian traveller Odoric of Pordenone visits city.[1]
- 1346/1347 - City walls expanded.[6]
- 1365 - Tomb of Šams-al-Din Moḥammad built (approximate date).[3]
- 1368/1369 - Masjed-e Rig (mosque) built.[7]
- 1385/1386 - Mosque of Ḵᵛāja Ḥāji Abu’l-Maʿāli[what language is this?] built.[3]
- 1395 - Fortifications built.[6]
- 15th century CE - Historians Ahmad ibn Husain Ali Katib and Jafar ibn Muhammad ibn Hasan Jafari each write histories of Yazd.[4]
- 1405/1406 - Iskandar b. Umar Shaykh becomes governor.[2]
- 1421/1422 - Bazaar built near Mehriz gate.[7]
- 1456 - Flood.[5]
- 1457 - Haji-Qanbar Bazaar built.[1]
- 1720s - Ghalzai Afghans in power.[6]
- 1742/1743 - Mirza Husayn becomes governor.[2]
- 1747 - Mohammad Taqi Khan becomes governor (until 1798).[7]
20th century
edit- 1903 - Anti-Baháʼí unrest.[2]
- 1920 - Population: 45,000 (approximate estimate).[8]
- 1931 - Factory in business.[9]
- 1935 - Pahlavi Street constructed.[1]
- 1940 - Yazd Ateshkade (Zoroastrian building) opens.[10]
- 1976 - City Hall built.[1]
- 1982 - Population: 193,000 (estimate).[11]
- 1986 - Population: 234,003.[1]
- 1991 - Shahid Ghandi Yazd (football club) formed.
- 1996 - Population: 326,776.[12]
21st century
edit- 2004 - Foolad Yazd F.C. (football club) formed.
- 2009 - Yazd Solar Power Station commissioned near city.
- 2011 - Population: 486,152.[13]
- 2013 - 14 June: Local election held.
- 2014 - Tarbiat Yazd F.C. (football club) active.
See also
edit- Yazd history (fa)
- List of mayors of Yazd
- Timelines of other cities in Iran: Bandar Abbas, Hamadan, Isfahan, Kerman, Mashhad, Qom, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f Modarres 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g Bosworth 2007.
- ^ a b c d e Patrick Wing. "Mozaffarids". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ^ a b Miller 1989.
- ^ a b c d "Yazd". Oxford Art Online.
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- ^ a b c Bonine 1987.
- ^ "Persia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust.
Yezd
- ^ Modarres 2006.
- ^ Green 2000.
- ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Countries of the World: Iran". Statesman's Yearbook 2003. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-98096-5.
- ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia.
Bibliography
editin English
edit- Edward Balfour (1885), "Yezd", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch, hdl:2027/mdp.39015068611022
- N. Malcolm (1905). Five Years in a Persian Town.
- Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 919. .
- Clément Huart (1936). "Yazd". Encyclopædia of Islam. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 1161. via Google Books
- C. E. Bosworth (1970). "Dailamīs in Central Iran: The Kākūyids of Jibāl and Yazd". Iran. 8. British Institute of Persian Studies: 73–95. doi:10.2307/4299634. JSTOR 4299634.
- Michael Edward Bonnie (1980), Yazd and its Hinterland, Marburger Geographische Schriften, Universität Marburg [1]
- Michael E. Bonine (1987). "Islam and Commerce: Waqf and the Bazaar of Yazd, Iran". Erdkunde. 41 (3): 182–196. ISSN 0014-0015. JSTOR 25645162.
- Isabel Miller (1989). "Local History in Ninth/Fifteenth Century Yaẓd: The 'Tārākh-i Jadīd-i Yazd'". Iran. 27. British Institute of Persian Studies: 75–79. doi:10.2307/4299819. JSTOR 4299819.
- A. K. S. Lambton (1992). "Qanāts of Yazd". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 2, 3rd series (1): 21–35. doi:10.1017/S1356186300001784. JSTOR 25182446. S2CID 162258668. (History of qanat water technology in the city)
- Noelle Watson, ed. (1996), "Yazd", International Dictionary of Historic Places, Fitzroy Dearborn, pp. 720+, ISBN 9781884964039
- Nile Green (2000). "Survival of Zoroastrianism in Yazd". Iran. 38. British Institute of Persian Studies: 115–122. doi:10.2307/4300587. JSTOR 4300587. [2]
- Ali Modarres (2006). Modernizing Yazd: Selective Historical Memory and the Fate of Vernacular Architecture. Bibliotheca Iranica. Mazda Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56859-140-7. [3]
- C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Yazd". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. pp. 557–566. ISBN 978-9004153882.
- Ali Modarres (2012). "On Politics and the Morphology of the Bazaar in Yazd". In Mohammad Gharipour (ed.). The Bazaar in the Islamic City: Design, Culture, and History. American University in Cairo. pp. 251–274. ISBN 978-977-416-529-0. [4]
- Aḥmad Monzawī; ʿAlī Naqī Monzawī (2012). "Bibliographies and Catalogues in Iran: Yazd". Encyclopædia Iranica.
in other languages
edit- Albert Houtum-Schindler; Heinrich Kiepert (1881). "Reisen im Südlichen Persien 1879". Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (in German). 16. Dietrich Reimer Verlag : 319+.
(Yezd)
- Mahmud Mahini (1934). Jughrafiya-yi Tarikhi-yi Yazd [Historical Geography of Yazd] (in Persian).
- ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn Āyatī (1938). Kitāb-i Tārīkh-i Yazd (in Persian). OCLC 123446613.
- Jaʿfar b. Moḥammad Jaʿfārī (1960), Iraj Afshar (ed.), Tārīḵ-e Yazd (in Persian), Tehran, OCLC 776485057
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (Written in 15th century CE) - Iraj Afshar. Yādgārhā-ye Yazd [Monuments of Yazd] (in Persian). Tehran. 1969-1975 (3 volumes)
- Iraj Afshar (1992). Yazd Nameh (in Persian). Tehran.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Ahmad ibn Husayn ibn 'Ali al-Kateb (2007), Tarikh-i-jedid-i-Yazd [New History of Yazd] (in Persian), Tehran, ISBN 978-9640010655
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External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Yazd.
- "شهرداران يزد پس از انقلاب اسلامي" [Mayors of Yazd since 1979] (in Persian). Municipality of Yazd.
- Houchang E. Chehabi (ed.). "Cities: Yazd". Bibliographia Iranica. USA: Iranian Studies Group at MIT. (Bibliography)
- Items related to Yazd, various dates (via Qatar Digital Library)
- "(Yazd)". Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran. Harvard University.
Primary-source materials related to the social and cultural history of women's worlds in Qajar Iran
- Items related to Yazd, various dates (via Europeana)
- Items related to Yazd, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
- "(Yazd)", Asnad.org: Digital Persian Archive, Philipps-Universität Marburg,
Image Database of Persian Historical Documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th Century
- "Yazd". List of Cities and Buildings. www.irania.tv. Archived from the original on 10 May 2003.
Historical Iranian Architecture