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Yaz
Yaz may mean: the Yaz cultureTofino Airport, the IATA code for the airport in Tofino, British Columbia, Canadathe oral contraceptive Yaz in popular culture Carl Yastrzemski, a member of the Baseball Hall of FameYazoo (band), an English electropop band (known as Yaz in the U.S.)Yaz Pistachio, a femal..

Yazaldes Nascimento
Yazaldes Nascimento (born April 17 1986) is an athlete from São Tomé and Príncipe who specializes in the 100 metres. Participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he achieved eighth place in his 100 metres heat, thus missing out on a placing in Round 2 of the event. ..

Yazata
Part of a series on Zoroastrianism [[Portal:Zoroastrianism|Portal]] Primary Topics Zoroastrianism / Mazdaism Ahura Mazda Zarathustra (Zoroaster) Angels and Demons Overview of the Angels Amesha Spentas · Yazatas Ahuras · Daevas Angra Mainyu Scripture and Worship Avesta ·..

Yazawa
Yazawa Eikichi Yazawa - Japanese Rock Musician.Ai Yazawa - Manga author. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. ..

Yazd
Yazd or Yezd (In Persian: یزد), is the capital of Yazd province, one of the most ancient and historic cities in Iran and a centre of Zoroastrian culture. The city is located some 175 miles southeast of Isfahan, at 31.92° North, 54.37° East. In 2005 it had an estimated population..

Yazdan
Yazdan is a city located near Isfahan, Iran. See also Yazdanism..

Yazdani
Yazdani is a family name that denotes people from city of Yazdan in Iran. The name translates, "spoken word of God". ..

Yazdanism
Yazdânism or Cult of Angels (also Yazdâni or Yazdanism) is a modern term for the monotheistic, though universalist, religion that was practiced by most Kurds up to the Islamization during the sixteenth century. Yazdânism involved a belief in incarnation as in Hinduism as well as 7 angelic beings ..

Yazdegerd
There were three kings of Persia called Yazdegerd, all from the Sassanid dynasty Yazdegerd I of Persia (r 399 - 420)Yazdegerd II of Persia (r 438 - 457)Yazdegerd III of Persia (died 628) redirect [[Template:Disambig]]..

Yazdegerd I
Yazdegerd I ("made by God" Izdigerdes), King of Persia (399–421), son of Shapur III of Persia (383–388) Yazdegerd I was a highly intelligent ruler, who tried to emancipate himself from the dominion of the magnates and the Magian priests. He punished the nobles severely when they attempt..

Yazdegerd II
A coin of Yazdegerd II. Yazdegerd II, ("made by God," Izdegerdes), King of Persia, was the son of Bahram V of Persia (421–438) and reigned from 438 to 457. In the beginning of his reign, Yazdegerd II quickly attacked the Eastern Roman Empire with a mixed army of various nations, includ..

Yazdgerd III
Yazdgerd III (Persian: یزدگرد سوم, "made by God"), last king of Sassanid dynasty, a grandson of Khosrau II (590–628), who had been murdered by his son Kavadh II of Persia in 628, and was raised to the throne in 632 after a series of internal conflicts. Yazdgerd III reigned as a youth..

Yazd Province
Yazd (Persian: یزد) is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. It is in the centre of the country, and its center is Yazd. The province has an area of 73,467 km2, and according to the most recent divisions of the country, is divided into seven townships namely: Maybod, Mehreez, Taft, Ardakan, Bafq, A..

Yazeed
Yazeed is an ethnic group in Sudan. They speak Sudanese Arabic. The population of this group is at several 100,000. Most Yazeed are Muslims. ..

Yazgulyam
The Yazgulyam language (also Yazgulyami, Iazgulem, Yazgulam, natively yuzdami zevég, Tajik yazgulomi) is a member of the Pamir subgroup of the Iranian languages, spoken by ca. 4,000 native speakers (as of 1994) along the Yazgulyam River, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. Together with Shugni, it is cl..

Yazgulyam River
The Yazgulyam River is a tributary of the Panj (upper Oxus) Vanji district, southern Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. It flows in a narrow valley or gorge of some 100 kilometres northeast to southwest, roughly [38°29′N 72°06′E] to [38°13′N 71°23′E]. It lies between two ..

Yazheng
The yazheng (simplified: [[wiktionary:牙|牙]][[wiktionary:筝|筝]]; traditional: [[wiktionary:牙|牙]][[wiktionary:箏|箏]]; pinyin: yázhēng; also spelled ya zheng or ya cheng) is a Chinese string instrument. It is a long zither similar to the guzheng but bowed by scraping with a sorghum s..

Yazhou Zhoukan
Yazhou Zhoukan (亞洲週刊), literally as "Asia Weekly", is the only international Chinese newsweekly which has been published for over 15 years. It has a broad content which includes both economic and international news. Contents 1 Background2 Highly Educated A..

Yazid
There were several notable persons named Yazid: Yazid I (born c. 645, died 683), second Umayyad Caliph upon succeeding his father Muawiyah.Yazid (died 640) - brother of the early Islamic leader Muawiyah I.Yazid Ibn Al-Muhallab This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articl..

Yazidi
Myths of the Fertile Crescentseries Mesopotamian mythology Ancient Arabian mythology Ancient Levantine mythology Names of God in the Hebrew Bible Babylonian and Assyrian religion Yezidic religion Pre-Islamic Arabian gods Ēl, Ilāh "God"Bēl, Baʕl, Bēl-ŠamīnAglibolal-Lāt,..

Yazidi Black Book
The Yazidi Black Book (Kurdish: Mishefa Reş) is one of the two holy books of the Yazidi religion, the other being the Book of Revelation (Kitêba Cilwe). Yezidis believe the Black Book originated when the Lord descended Black Mountain. The Yazidi holy books are written in Kurmanji dialect of Kur..

Yazidi Book of Revelation
The Yazidi Book of Revelation (Kitêba Cilwe in Kurdish) and the Yazidi Black Book (Mishefa Reş in Kurdish) are the two principal holy books of the Yazidi. The original text of the Book of Revelation is kept in the Yazidi village of Ba'idn, and the original text of the Yazidi Black Book is kept i..

Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress
The Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress is a Yazidi political party in Iraq that ran in the December 2005 elections. This list won 0.2 % of the popular vote, thus receiving one seat (held by Amin Farhan Jejo). ..

Yazid I
The factual accuracy of part of this article is [Accuracy disputedisputed]. The dispute is about the existence of many unreferenced facts which may exagerate or downplay certain events. Please see the relevant discussion on the [..

Yazid ibn al-Muhallab
Yazid ibn al-Muhallab (672 - 720) was a provincial governor in the time of the Umayyad dynasty. He became the governor of Khorasan in the early 8th century. Through conflict with Al-Hajjaj bin Yousef, he was jailed by al-Walid, the caliph at the time. He was killed when he rebelled against the ca..

Yazid II
Yazid bin Abd al-Malik or Yazid II (687 - 724) (Arabic: يزيد بن عبد الملك) was an Umayyad caliph who ruled from 720 until his death in 724. Yazid's reign was heavily smitten with internal and external conflicts. Numerous civil wars began to break out in different parts of the empir..

Yazid III
Yazid ibn Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik or Yazid III (701 - 744) (Arabic: يزيد ابن الوليد ابن عبد الملك) was an Umayyad caliph. He only reigned for six months before his death. His reign was marked by his defective measures, earning him the title of "The Deficient". Among the..

Yazid Kaïssi
Yazid Kaïssi (born May 16, 1981) is a Moroccan football player who, as of 2004 was playing for RC Lens. Currently plays for BK Häcken in Sweden. He was part of the Moroccan 2004 Olympic football team, who exited in the first round, finishing third in group D, behind group winners Iraq and runners..

Yazid Mansouri
Yazid Mansouri (born February 25, 1978 in Revin, France) is an Algerian football player who currently plays for French Ligue 2 side Le Havre AC, with whom he has spent his entire career. During the 2003/04 season he spent a spell on loan to English club Coventry City F.C. He was a member of the Alg..

Yazid of Morocco
Yazid (1750 - 1792) (Arabic: اليزيد بن محمد) was Sultan of Morocco from 1790 to 1792, and was a member of the Alaouite Dynasty. See also List of Kings of MoroccoHistory of Morocco References [Morocco Alaoui dynasty][History of Morocco] |- style="text-align: center;"..

Yazid Sufaat
Yazid Sufaat (a.k.a. Yazud bin Sufaat or Yazid Shufaat, born 20 January 1964) was arrested by Malyasian authorities 9 December 2001 and is currently being held under their Internal Security Act. Sufaat was born in Johor, Malaysia and holds Malaysian Passport Number A10472263. He is a former Malaysi..

Yazılıkaya
Relief with twelve gods from the underworld Yazilikaya (Turkish for inscribed rock) a place in the Çorum Province, Turkey. This was a holy site for the Hittites living in the close-by city of Hattusa. Most impressive today is the rock-cut reliefs portraying the gods from the Hittite pantheon..

Yazoo
Yazoo may mean: Yazoo County, MississippiYazoo City, MississippiYazoo River, in the state of MississippiYazoo Delta RailroadYazoo lands, historic area in Mississippi and AlabamaYazoo Land FraudYazoo (band), a 1980s English pop band renamed Yaz for the U.S. marketYazoo (drink), a flavoured milk drin..

Yazoo (band)
Yazoo (known as Yaz in the U.S.) were a short-lived but highly successful English electropop duo from Basildon, Essex that had a number of top ten hits in the British charts in the early 1980s. Heavily influenced by earlier bands like Kraftwerk, Yazoo expanded upon the synthpop formula by juxtap..

Yazoo (drink)
Yazoo is a bottled flavoured milk, or milkshake, produced by Campina and is sold in the United Kingdom. Bottles, advertisements and promotions feature the Dino character (equivalent of Nesquik's Quicky the rabbit). It comes in four flavours: strawberry, chocolate, banana and vanilla ice-cream. Bott..

Yazoo City, Mississippi
Yazoo City is a city in Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States. It is named for the river, whose name, legend has it, comes from an Indian word meaning "River of Death". It is the county seat of Yazoo County. The population was 14,550 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 History..

Yazoo County, Mississippi
Yazoo County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 28,149. It is named for the river, whose name, legend has it, comes from an Indian word meaning "River of Death". Farming and lumber are the predominant industries of Yazoo county. Contents 1 ..

Yazoo lands
The Yazoo lands were the sparsely populated central and western areas of the U.S. state of Georgia, when its western border stretched back to the Mississippi River. These lands later became the states of Alabama and Mississippi. The far western panhandle of Spanish territory Florida became the panha..

Yazoo land scandal
The Yazoo Land Scandal, Yazoo Fraud or Yazoo Land Fraud was a massive fraud perpetrated by several Georgia governors and the state legislature from 1795 to 1803 by selling large tracts of land to insiders at ridiculously low prices. The Yazoo Land Fraud is often conflated with the Pine Barrens spec..

Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge
Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge ..

Yazoo Records
Black Patti label Belzona Records label Yazoo Records label 1 --> --> Yazoo Records is a record label setup in the late 1960s by Nick Perls. It specializes in early American blues, bluegrass, jazz, and other rural American genres (collectively called "roots" music). The first fiv..

Yazoo River
Yazoo River flows from Greenwood to Vicksburg. Not all tributaries are shown. The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi and the second longest tributary of the Mississippi River that flows into that river from the east (the longest is the Ohio River). The Yazoo River was nam..

Yazoo stream
A yazoo stream is any stream that runs parallel to, and within the floodplain of, a larger river that the stream eventually joins. Where the two meet is known as a belated confluence or deferred junction. The name comes from the Yazoo River which runs parallel to the Mississippi River for 280 km (17..

Yazoo tribe
The Yazoo tribe were a small Native American tribe who lived on the lower course of Yazoo River, Mississippi, in close connection with several other tribes, the most important of which was the Tonica. Nothing is definitely known concerning their language, but it seems to have been similar to that o..

Yazor
Yazor is a small village in the English county of Herefordshire. It is some five miles from the city of Hereford on the A480 road about a mile east of Offa's Dyke. External links [GENUKI(tm) page]*[Map sources] for ..

Yazuac
Yazuac is a fictional city in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Trilogy. The city lies in the fictionous region of Galbatorix's Empire in the Western part of Alagaesia and had its population destroyed by a ravenous crowd of Urgals. This is where Eragon and Brom stop for supplies, finding the town t..

Yazu District, Tottori
Yazu (八頭郡; -gun) is a district located in Tottori Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 48,540 and a density of 55.43 persons per km². The total area is 875.74 km². Towns and villages ChizuWakasaYazu Mergers On November 1, 2004 the municipalitie..

Yazz
This article is about the solo artist 'Yazz'. For the synthpop duo known as 'Yaz' in the US, see Yazoo (band). For other uses of the word 'Yaz', see Yaz. --> Yazz (born Yasmin Evans in Shepherd's Bush, London on May 19 1960) is a British pop singer who remains best known for her successful 1988 da..

Yaz culture
The Yaz culture is an early Iron Age culture of Bactria and Margiana (ca. 1500-1100 BC). It has been regarded as a likely archaeological reflection of early East Iranian culture as described in the Avesta. So far, no burials related to the culture have been found, and this was taken as evidence of..

Yaz McBoo
Yaz McBoo (also called Snitch) is a fictional character in a series of short stories centered around McBoo, God of the Hollow Earth, written by Authors Yaz and Metal Kent published on spoof websites. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Yaz McBoo travels aro..

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