Yazd or Yezd (In Persian: یزد), is one of the most ancient and historical cities of Iran. The city is located some 175 miles southeast of Isfahan, at 31.92° North, 54.37° East. As of 2000 it had a population of about 350,000 people. The city is the capital of Iran's Yazd province.
The city is known to date back to the 3rd millenia BC. It was anciently known as Ysatis. Accoriding to UNESCO, Yazd is the second largest city in the world constructed using adobe. Yazd was settled on an oasis on a sandy plain.
The old part of the town is ringed by a tall mud-brick wall dating back to the 5th century.
Yazd University's College of Architecture is very famous Internationally for its traditional school of Persian vernacular Architecture
Yazd was long a center of Zoroastrian culture, though today many Zoroastrians have moved to the capital Tehran or abroad. The Zoroastrians have their own language called Dari. The fire of the main Zoroastrian temple in Yazd has been burning for over a millenium.
Marco Polo wrote an acount of visiting the city in 1272.
The University of Yazd was established in 1988. It has a very famous college of Architecture specializing in traditional Persian Art and Architecture. Many great architects such as Arata Isozaki (http://www.archpedia.com/Architects/Arata-Isozaki.html) and Rem Koolhaas have visited this school.
Much silk is grown in the district, but is not sufficient for the silk stuffs which Yezd manufactures with its 1000 looms, and raw silk (about 75,000 lb yearly) has to be obtained from Khorasan and Gilan.
YEZD, the capital of the province of the same name in Persia, situated 192 m.
The ark, or citadel, in the E. of the town, is fortified with walls, bastions and dry ditch, and contains the governors residence.
The flora and fauna belong for the most part to those of New Zealand, on which colony the islands are also politically dependent, having been annexed in 1887.
Kerman is generally described as consisting of two parts, an uninhabitable desert region in the north and a habitable mountainous region in the south, but recent explorations require this view to be considerably modified.
West of and parallel to this range are two others, one culminating north-west of Bam in the Kuh Hazar (14,700 ft.), the other continued at about the same elevation under the name of the Jamal Bariz (also Jebel Bariz) south-eastward to Makran.
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