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Yazd

يزد

A populous city of low prices, about thirty miles east of Kath, on the edge of a desert that joins the Khurasan road. 1

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Yazd is a populous, cheap city, thirty miles east of Kath, at the head of a desert connected to the road of Khurasan, according to al-Idrisi. 2

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 430
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.430
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