Yezd

A native, it is believed, of Darâbghird in the Yezd

The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi 2003

From Ispahan he carried cotton stuffs, tobacco, and copper ware to Yezd, where he remained some time, until a caravan was collected for Meshed, when he loaded his mules with the manufactures of the former city.

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier

Persian opium of good quality contains from ten to fifteen percent morphine, and chandu made from opium of Yezd would contain perhaps twenty-five per cent of this potent drug; but because in the act of smoking distillation occurs, nothing like this quantity of morphine reaches the smoker.

Dope Sax Rohmer 1921

In this year, Mirza Ali Mohamad, the great founder of the new Bab religion in Persia, with his disciples Aka Mohamad Ali and Sayyid Husayn of Yezd, suffered martyrdom.

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

In that year the dealers in jewels were setting prices upon diamonds from Golconda, rubies and lapis lazuli from Badakhshan, and pearls from the fisheries of Ceylon; and the silk merchants were stacking up bales of silk and muslin and brocade from Bagdad and Yezd and Malabar and China.

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

Society, established in 1869, has stations in Kirman, Yezd, Shiraz, and at Ispahan. the work is mainly medical and educational.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Tauris, Sultaniah, where in 1318 John XXII had erected an archbishopric, Kasham, Yezd, and Persepolis; he also visited

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The principal ones are those spoken in Mazandarán, Ghilan, and Talish in the north; Samnân in the northeast; Kashán, Quhrûd and Na'in in the centre, with the peculiar Gabri dialect spoken by the Zoroastrians inhabiting Yezd, Kirman, Rafsinjân, etc.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Yezd is not only the refuge of the most ancient of Persian religions, but it is one of the headquarters of the modern Babi propaganda, the far-reaching effects of which it is probably difficult to underestimate.

Grammar. 1908

By Lahore, and Cabool, and Yezd, I came to Ispahan.

Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ 1901