See also:

• YEZD
• YEZD, or YAZD

YEZD, or YAZD  , a See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• PERSIA

Persia, bounded S. by See also:

• KERMAN
• KERMAN (the ancient Karmania)

Kerman, W. by See also:

• FARS (the name Farsistan is not used)

Fars and See also:

• ISFAHAN (older form Ispahan)

Isfahan, and N. and E. by the central See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian deserts . It contains an See also:

• AREA

area of about 20,000 sq. m., but its See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population barely exceeds See also:

• LOO (formerly called " Lanterloo," Fr. lanturlu, the refrain of a popular 17th-century song)

loo,000, of whom about See also:

• HALF

half inhabit the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the province . Its subdivisions are: (1) the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

• YEZD
• YEZD, or YAZD

Yezd and immediate environs; (2) Ardakan; (3) Bafk; (4) See also:

• TAFT, LORADO (186o— )
• TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD (1857— )

Taft; (5) Kuhistan (Pish Kuh, Mian Kuh, Pusht Kuh, on the slopes and in the valleys of the Shir Kuh, a See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• GREAT

great Central Range of Persia W. of the city of Yezd, and rising to an See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation of 11,000 ft.); and (6) Shahr i Babek . The last is situated far S. near Kerman, and sometimes is regarded as part of that province . The revenues slightly exceed £6o,000 a See also:

• YEAR

year . Much See also:

• SILK

silk is grown in the See also:

• DISTRICT

district, but is not sufficient for the silk stuffs which Yezd manufactures with its Torso looms, and raw silk (about 75,000 lb yearly) has to be obtained from See also:

• KHORASAN, or KHORASSAN (i.e. " land of the sun ")

Khorasan and See also:

• GILAN (GUILAN, GUILAN)

Gilan . Great quantities of felts (nimads), See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white and yellow See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton stuffs, the latter a See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

• NANKEEN

nankeen made of Gossypium herbaceum, are also manufactured and exported . Other exports are See also:

• OPIUM (Gr. amov, dim. from Orbs, juice)

opium, See also:

• MADDER

madder and almonds . The See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain produced suffices for only two or three months' See also:

• CONSUMPTION (Lat. consumere)

consumption, and supplies have to be brought from Khorasan, so that See also:

• WHEAT
• WHEAT (Triticum)

wheat and See also:

• BARLEY (Hordeum sativum)

barley are dearer than at other places in Persia . The part of the district situated in the See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain is much exposed to moving sands, which render cultivation difficult and at times impossible .