Madar-e-Soleyman
Madar-e-Soleyman
City in Fars province, Iran
Madar-e Soleyman (Persian: مادرسليمان)[lower-alpha 1] 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.[4] 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]
At the 2006 census, its population was 1,633 in 404 households, when it was a village in Madar-e Soleyman Rural District.[5] The following census in 2011 counted 1,822 people in 513 households.[6] The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 1,546 people in 452 households,[2] by which time the village had been elevated to the status of a city.[7]