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Timeline of Yazd

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yazd, Iran.

Prior to 20th century

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  • 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
  • 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

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  • 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

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Modarres 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Bosworth 2007.
  3. ^ a b c d e Patrick Wing. "Mozaffarids". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  4. ^ a b Miller 1989.
  5. ^ a b c d "Yazd". Oxford Art Online. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 18 February 2017
  6. ^ a b c d "(Yazd)". ArchNet. Retrieved 18 February 2017 – via MIT Libraries. (See also 2012 archived version)
  7. ^ a b c Bonine 1987.
  8. ^ "Persia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust. Yezd
  9. ^ Modarres 2006.
  10. ^ Green 2000.
  11. ^ 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. ^ "Countries of the World: Iran". Statesman's Yearbook 2003. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-98096-5.
  13. ^ "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

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in English

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in other languages

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  • Albert Houtum-Schindler; Heinrich Kiepert (1881). "Reisen im Südlichen Persien 1879". Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (in German). 16. Dietrich Reimer Verlag [de]: 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{{citation}}: 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.{{cite book}}: 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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (Written in 15th century CE?)
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