Timeline of Yazd

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

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Prior to 20th century

  • 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 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

  • 1903 - Anti-Bahá'í 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

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Modarres 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bosworth 2007.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Patrick Wing. "Mozaffarids". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  4. 1 2 Miller 1989.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Yazd". Oxford Art Online. (Subscription required (help)). Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 18 February 2017
  6. 1 2 3 4 "(Yazd)". ArchNet. Retrieved 18 February 2017 – via MIT Libraries. (See also 2012 archived version)
  7. 1 2 3 Bonine 1987.
  8. ↑ "Persia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – 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.
  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

in English

  • Edward Balfour (1885), "Yezd", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch
  • N. Malcolm (1905). Five Years in a Persian Town.
  • "Yezd", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
  • 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. British Institute of Persian Studies. 8. JSTOR 4299634.
  • Michael Edward Bonnie (1980), Yazd and its Hinterland, Marburger Geographische Schriften (83), Universität Marburg
  • Michael E. Bonine (1987). "Islam and Commerce: Waqf and the Bazaar of Yazd, Iran". Erdkunde. 41. ISSN 0014-0015. JSTOR 25645162.
  • Isabel Miller (1989). "Local History in Ninth/Fifteenth Century Yaẓd: The 'Tārākh-i Jadīd-i Yazd'". Iran. British Institute of Persian Studies. 27. JSTOR 4299819.
  • A. K. S. Lambton (1992). "Qanāts of Yazd". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 2; 3rd series. JSTOR 25182446. (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. British Institute of Persian Studies. 38. JSTOR 4300587.
  • Ali Modarres (2006). Modernizing Yazd: Selective Historical Memory and the Fate of Vernacular Architecture. Bibliotheca Iranica. Mazda Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56859-140-7.
  • C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Yazd". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. pp. 557–566.
  • Ali Modarres (2012). "On Politics and the Morphology of the Bazaar in Yazd". In Mohammad Gharipour. The Bazaar in the Islamic City: Design, Culture, and History. American University in Cairo. pp. 251–274. ISBN 978-977-416-529-0.
  • Aḥmad Monzawī; ʿAlī Naqī Monzawī (2012). "Bibliographies and Catalogues in Iran: Yazd". Encyclopædia Iranica.

in other languages

  • Albert Houtum-Schindler; Heinrich Kiepert (1881). "Reisen im Südlichen Persien 1879". Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (in German). Dietrich Reimer Verlag. 16: 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 (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.
  • Ahmad ibn Husayn ibn 'Ali al-Kateb (2007), Tarikh-i-jedid-i-Yazd [New History of Yazd] (in Persian), Tehran, ISBN 9640010650 (Written in 15th century CE?)
  • "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
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