Madar-e-Soleyman
city in Fars Province, Iran
Madar-e-Soleyman (Persian: مادرسليمان) is a city in, and the capital of, Pasargad District of Pasargad County, Fars province, Iran. It also serves as the administrative center for Madar-e Soleyman Rural District. The name means "mother of Solomon," the Biblical Bathsheba, from the tomb historically reputed to belong to her (known as the Tomb of Cyrus in modern times).
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, Madar-e Soleyman's population was 1,633 in 404 households, when it was a village in Madar-e Soleyman Rural District. The following census in 2011 counted 1,822 people in 513 households. The 2016 census measured the population as 1,546 people in 452 households, by which time the village had been elevated to the status of a city.
“Madar-e-Soleyman” enters the record as city in Fars Province, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Madar-e-Soleyman, city and Fars can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5834174. Authority coordinates are 30.192, 53.173. 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.
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