Yazd

Yazd (Persian يزد / jæzd / ) (also YASDI, Yazd or Yezd ) is one of the oldest cities of Iran and the capital of the province of Yazd.

Yazd has a population of around 486,500 people (calculated as of 2012). The city is located 250 km east of Isfahan.

Oasis city

Yazd was established at an oasis and is located between the deserts of the Dasht -e Kavir and Dasht - e Lut the. It was established in the third millennium BC and was the center of the Zoroastrian faith in Iran. Here you can still find many fire temples (pers. Atashkadeh ). At its founding, the city should have been due to a now dried-up large inland. For water supply scale water channels and tubes ( Qanat ) are today partly in ancient times used.

History

After the fall of the Sassanid empire and the conquest of Persia by the Muslim Arabs in the 7th century, the city in the Middle Ages, among others, by the local dynasty of Kakuyiden and ( then ) the Atabegs of Yazd mastered before it was conquered by the Mongols, but not destroyed was.

Yazd in 1907 was historically significant as the limit or vertices of the British-Russian spheres of interest were defined contractually in Persia. The Russian influence was north of a line from Yazd, northwest to northeast of Yazd to Kurdistan or the Persian- Afghan- Russian triangle dominate (now the Iranian- Afghan- Turkmen border triangle ), south of the British.

Central Prison

Ayatollah Sayed Hossein end of 2008 Kazemeyni Boroujerdi was transferred to the central prison of Yazd. Since January 27, 2009 he is sitting there in solitary confinement. In the prison in Yazd the 50 - year-old cleric was beaten on 5 May 2009 with blows. For this reason, Amnesty International reiterated its call for Boroujerdi from an Urgent Action.

Universities

  • University of Yazd
  • Shahid Sadoughi University of Medizinwisschaften and health
  • Islamic Azad University Bafgh
  • Islamic Azad University Maybod
  • Islamic Azad University of Yazd
  • Yazd Sampad Information Centre

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Mohammad Khatami, former Iranian President
  • Moshe Katsav, former Israeli President
  • Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi -, Iranian Ayatollah, who is close to President Ahmadinejad
  • Mohammad Reza Aref, Iranian Vice President from 2001 to 2005
  • Mirza Mohammad Yazdi Farrokhi, writer and politician

Twinning

  • Jászberény Hungary, Hungary

Gallery

Mansion with a Houz in Yazd

In the old city of Yazd, wind tower, Badgir for air cooling

Covered streets in the old town

The Badgir in Dolatabad Garden

The interior of the Badgir Dolat Abad

A Zoroastrian Tower of Silence on the outskirts of Yazd

The mosque Amir Chakhmagh, no longer has any function

Portal of the Friday Mosque of Yazd

Noted: pomegranates of Yazd

Cemetery Iranian Fallen of the Iran- Iraq war in Yazd

Preparation of the Ashura procession in Yazd

3rd millennium BC Kakuyids Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi Howz Jame Mosque of Yazd
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