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Prior to 20th century[edit]

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Prehistoric period
BCE / BC
Baradostian culture c. 36,000–18,000
Zarzian culture c. 20,000–10,000
Shulaveri–Shomu culture c. 6000–5000
Zayandeh River Culture c. 6th millennium
Dalma culture c. 5th millennium
Ancient period
Kura–Araxes culture 3400–2000
Proto-Elamite 3200–2700
Jiroft culture c. 3100–2200
Lullubi Kingdom/Zamua c. 3100-675
Elam 2700–539
Marhaši c. 2550-2020
Oxus Civilization c. 2400–1700
Akkadian Empire 2400–2150
Kassites c. 1500–1155
Avestan period c. 1500–500
Neo-Assyrian Empire 911–609
Urartu 860–590
Mannaea 850–616
Zikirti 750-521
Saparda 720-670
Imperial period
Median Empire 678–550 BC
Scythian Kingdom 652–625 BC
Anshanite Kingdom 635 BC–550 BC
Neo-Babylonian Empire 626 BC–539 BC
Sogdia c. 6th century BC–11th century AD
Achaemenid Empire 550 BC–330 BC
Kingdom of Armenia 331 BC–428 AD
Atropatene c. 323 BC–226 AD
Kingdom of Cappadocia 320s BC–17 AD
Seleucid Empire 312 BC–63 BC
Kingdom of Pontus 281 BC–62 BC
Fratarakas 3rd-century BC–132 BC
Parthian Empire 247 BC–224 AD
Elymais 147 BC–224 AD
Characene 141 BC–222 AD
Kings of Persis 132 BC–224 AD
Indo-Parthian Kingdom 19 AD–224/5
Paratarajas 125–300
Sasanian Empire 224–651
Zarmihrids 6th century–785
Qarinvandids 550s–11th century
Medieval period
CE / AD
Rashidun Caliphate 632-661
Umayyad Caliphate 661–750
Abbasid Caliphate 750–1258
Dabuyids 642–760
Bavandids 651–1349
Masmughans of Damavand 651–760
Baduspanids 665–1598
Justanids 791 – 11th century
Alid dynasties 864 – 14th century
Tahirid dynasty 821–873
Samanid Empire 819–999
Saffarid dynasty 861–1003
Ghurid dynasty pre-879 – 1215
Sajid dynasty 889–929
Sallarid dynasty 919–1062
Ziyarid dynasty 930–1090
Ilyasids 932–968
Buyid dynasty 934–1062
Rawadid dynasty 955–1070
Hasanwayhids 959–1095
Ghaznavid dynasty 977–1186
Annazids 990/1–1117
Kakuyids 1008–1141
Nasrid dynasty 1029–1236
Shabankara 1030–1355
Seljuk Empire 1037–1194
Khwarazmian dynasty 1077–1231
Eldiguzids 1135–1225
Atabegs of Yazd 1141–1319
Salghurids 1148–1282
Hazaraspids 1155–1424
Pishkinid dynasty 1155–1231
Khorshidi dynasty 1184-1597
Qutlugh-Khanids 1223-1306
Mihrabanids 1236–1537
Kurt dynasty 1244–1396
Ilkhanate Empire 1256–1335
Chobanid dynasty 1335–1357
Muzaffarid dynasty 1335–1393
Jalayirid Sultanate 1337–1376
Sarbadars 1337–1376
Injuids 1335–1357
Afrasiyab dynasty 1349–1504
Mar'ashis 1359–1596
Timurid Empire 1370–1507
Kar-Kiya dynasty 1370s–1592
Qara Qoyunlu 1406–1468
Aq Qoyunlu 1468–1508
Early modern period
Safavid Iran 1501–1736
(Hotak dynasty) 1722–1729
Afsharid Iran 1736–1796
Zand dynasty 1751–1794
Modern period
Qajar Iran 1789–1925
Pahlavi Iran 1925–1979
Contemporary period
Iranian Revolution 1979
Interim Government 1979
Islamic Republic 1979–present
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  • 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[what language is this?] 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[edit]

  • 1903 - Anti-Baháʼí 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[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Modarres 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Bosworth 2007.
  3. ^ a b c d e Patrick Wing. "Mozaffarids". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  4. ^ a b Miller 1989.
  5. ^ a b c d "Yazd". Oxford Art Online. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 18 February 2017
  6. ^ a b c d "(Yazd)". ArchNet. Retrieved 18 February 2017 – via MIT Libraries. (See also 2012 archived version)
  7. ^ a b c Bonine 1987.
  8. ^ "Persia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  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[edit]

in English[edit]

in other languages[edit]

  • Albert Houtum-Schindler; Heinrich Kiepert (1881). "Reisen im Südlichen Persien 1879". Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (in German). 16. Dietrich Reimer Verlag [de]: 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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Ahmad ibn Husayn ibn 'Ali al-Kateb (2007), Tarikh-i-jedid-i-Yazd [New History of Yazd] (in Persian), Tehran, ISBN 978-9640010655{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (Written in 15th century CE?)

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