Timeline of Yazd
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
- 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.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) Retrieved 18 February 2017 - ^ a b c d "(Yazd)". ArchNet. Retrieved 18 February 2017 – via MIT Libraries. (See also 2012 archived version)
- ^ 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.
{{cite book}}: 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
[edit]in 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
{{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
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External links
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Wikimedia 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