Madar-e-Soleyman
City in Fars province, Iran
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Madar-e-Soleyman (Persian: مادرسليمان)[a] is a city in, and the capital of, Pasargad District[b] of Pasargad County, Fars province, Iran. It also serves as the administrative center for Madar-e Soleyman Rural District.[5] 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).[citation needed]
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.[6] The following census in 2011 counted 1,822 people in 513 households.[7] The 2016 census measured the population as 1,546 people in 452 households,[2] by which time the village had been elevated to the status of a city.[8]
