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| | Yazd, Iran, Pictures |
 | | Yazd is an important manufacturing center with cotton, silk, and wool textile mills; a steel plant, a factory making water purification and filtration equipment; carpet-weaving workshops; and food-processing enterprises. |
 | | Yazd's prosperity thus was not interrupted, and the city flourished until the 18th century, when it was attacked and looted by the Afghans, who massacred most of Yazd's residents during the course of the 19th century. |
 | | In 1956 Yazd's population had grown to 63,500; by 1976 it had doubled to 135,000. |
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