Yazd

, Yezd

a city in central Iran: a major centre of silk weaving. Pop.: 436 000 (2005 est.)

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Yezd

a city in Iran, administrative center of the chief guber-natorial region of Yezd. Population, 98, 000 (1971). Railroadstation and highway junction. Yezd has textile and food andcondiments industries and produces silk, carpets, and other handicraft items.

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In 1747 they commissioned two doctors to go to Yezd in Persia, where they had heard the Gebri lived.

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Nayo, who is working for a German programme whose aim is to preserve peoples in danger of extinction, states that he recently discovered the word `yezidi' engraved in cuneiform characters on a third-millennium Sumerian tablet.(29) As for the Yezidis themselves, they say their religion was founded in the town of Yezd in Iran around 2020 B.C.

The Yezidis, People of the Spoken Word in the midst of People of the Book

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