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Yazd / Yezde.

Scrive Pottinger nel “Travels in Belochistan and Sindh”: Yezd is a very large and populous city, situated on the edge of a sandy desert, contiguous to a range of mountains running east and west. It is called the Darool Ibadut, or seat of worship, but with more propriety might be termed the Darool Amanut, or seat of safety, which is applied to Kirman; as it is celebrated by all merchants, for the protection afforded to speculators, and the security of its inhabitants and their property. It is the grand mart between Hindoostan, Khorasan, Bagdad, and Persia, and is said to be a place of greater trade than any other in the latter empire; the Bazar is extensive and well supplied: the city contains twenty thousand houses, besides those of the Guebres, or ancient Persians, who are reckoned at four thousand; they are an industrious race, though sadly oppressed, being taxed at twenty-five rupees a head, besides various other means of extortion, which the Persian government possesses; the revenue paid to the king from Yezd, is three Lacs of rupees yearly.

Del libro Voyages Dans Le Beloutchistan Et Le Sindhy si trovano alcune edizioni anche su Amazon, sono delle riproduzioni del 1923 del testo originale di Pottinger del 1816, con delle imperfezioni dovute alla scannerizzazione di pagine molto vecchie e un po’ rovinate.
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