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Yazd
Yazd is a desert city in central Iran, famed for its mud-brick old town, windcatchers and underground qanat water channels, and as a centre of Zoroastrianism. In the Middle Ages it was ruled by Kakuyid princes, atabegs and the Muzaffarid dynasty, and Marco Polo described its silk weaving. Its historic city became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017.
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