Kedenj
village in Iran
Kedenj (Persian: کدنج) is a village in, and the former capital of, Siyakh Rural District of Siyakh Darengun District, Shiraz County, Fars province, Iran, serving as capital of the district. The capital of the rural district has been transferred to the village of Bab Ayur.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 1,941 in 460 households, when it was in Siyakh Darengun Rural District of the Central District. The following census in 2011 counted 2,081 people in 569 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 2,116 people in 607 households. It was the most populous village in its rural district.
After the census, the rural district was separated from the district in the formation of Siyakh Darengun District and renamed Siyakh Rural District.
“Kedenj” enters the record as village in Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kedenj, village and Iran can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Kedenj” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kedenj, village and Iran provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5831138. Authority coordinates are 29.422, 52.406. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kedenj” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.