Yazd

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Yazd
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Yazd (Iran)
Yazd
Yazd
Basic data
Country: IranIran Iran
Province : Yazd Province
Coordinates : 31 ° 51 ′  N , 54 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 31 ° 51 ′  N , 54 ° 22 ′  E
Height : 1216  m
Residents : 656,474 (2016 census)
Area code : 351
Time zone : UTC +3: 30
Website: yazd.ir
politics
Mayor : Mohammad Azim Zadeh
The Amir Chakmak Mosque in Yazd

Yazd or Jesd ( Persian یزد/ jæzd /, further spellings Yasd or Jasd ) is one of the oldest cities in Iran and the capital of the Yazd province of the same name .

Yazd has a population of around 656,500 people (2016). The city is located 250 km east of Isfahan .

In 2017, the old town of Yazd was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Oasis city

Yazd was founded on an oasis and lies between the deserts of the Dascht-e Kawir and the Dascht-e Lut . The city has existed since the third millennium BC and is the center of the Zoroastrian religion . You can still find many fire temples here today ( Persian آتشكده Ataschkadeh , DMG ātaškade orآتشگاه Atashgah , DMG ātašgāh ). On the outskirts of the city are towers of silence . When it was founded, the city is said to have been located on a large inland lake that has now fallen dry. To this day, water canals and pipes ( qanat ),which were built in ancient times, are sometimes used for the water supply. The famous wind towers serve to cool and ventilate the historic houses.

history

After the fall of the Sassanid Empire and the conquest of Persia by the Muslim Arabs in the 7th century, the city was ruled in the Middle Ages by the local dynasty of the Kakuyids and (subsequently) the Atabegs of Yazd , before it was conquered by the Mongols , but not destroyed .

In the 15th century, under Amir Tschaqmāq (also Tschachmāq), the Amir-Tschaqmaq complex ( Persian مجموعهٔ میدان امیر چقماق, DMG Maǧmū'e-ye Meydān-e Amīr Čaqmāq , tooمجموعهٔ میدان امیر چخماق, DMG Maǧmū'e-ye Meydān-e Amīr Čaḫmāq ).

Yazd became historically significant in 1907 when the border points or vertices of the British-Russian spheres of interest in Persia were contractually established. The Russian influence should be guaranteed north of a line from Yazd northwest to Kurdistan or from Yazd northeast to the Persian- Afghan - Russian triangle (today: Iranian-Afghan- Turkmen triangle), south of it the British.

Because of its clay and raw brick architecture, Yazd has been declared a World Heritage Site.

Central prison

In late 2008, Hossein Kazemeyni Borudscherdi was transferred to the Yazd Central Prison. He has been in solitary confinement there since January 27, 2009. On May 5, 2009, the 50-year-old clergyman was beaten in the Yazd prison. For this reason, Amnesty International again called for Urgent Action for Borudscherdi .

traffic

The city is on the Qom – Zahedan railway , the southern east-west rail link of Iran.

economy

Yazd is the main brocade and silk fabric manufacturing location in Iran.

Colleges

sons and daughters of the town

Town twinning

gallery

  • Fire temple in Yazd

  • Town house with a houz in Yazd

  • In the old town of Yazd, Bādgir (wind tower for air cooling)

  • Covered street in the old town

  • The Badgir in the Dolatabad Garden

  • The interior of the Badgir Dolat Abad

  • A Zoroastrian tower of silence on the outskirts of Yazd

  • The Amir Chakhmâgh mosque has no function today

  • Portal of the Friday Mosque of Yazd

  • Well known: pomegranates from Yazd

  • Cemetery of Iranian soldiers who died in the Iran-Iraq war in Yazd

  • Preparation for the Ashura procession in Yazd

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Panorama of the mosque Amir Chakhmagh from
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Panoramic Yazd from the Towers of Silence from

See also

literature

  • The journeys of the Venetian Marco Polo , first book, 14th chapter, Wiesbaden 2004, based on the Hamburg 1908 edition, ISBN 3-937715-12-6
  • Sina Vodjani and Gabriele von Kröcher: Zarathustra. Membrane International, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-86562-739-1 , pp. 190-218.

Web links

Commons : Yazd  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistical Center of Iran: Population by age groups and sex and province, the 2016 Population and Housing Census. (xlsx) Retrieved July 22, 2017 (Excel file, can be downloaded from the website. (Excel; 21 KB)).
  2. ↑ Entry on the website of the UNESCO World Heritage Center ( English and French ).
  3. ↑ See article from English Wikipedia, article from Persian Wikipedia.
  4. ↑ a b c Amnesty International , May 14, 2009: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Urgent Action: clergyman mistreated in custody@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.iranhr.ch
  5. ↑ Sina Vodjani and Gabriele von Kröcher: Zarathustra. Membrane International, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-86562-739-1 , p. 195.