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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Madar-e-Soleyman

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).

At the 2006 census, its 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 latest census in 2016 showed a population of 1,546 people in 452 households, by which time the village had been elevated to the status of a city.