Sedeh ( fa, سده, also known as Sehdeh) is a city and capital of Sedeh District, in

Eqlid County Eqlid County ( fa, شهرستان اقلید) is in Fars province, Fars province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Eqlid. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 99,003 in 21,216 households. The following census in 2011 c ...

, Fars Province,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. Sedeh is located some north-to-northwest of

Shiraz Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 p ...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 5,572, in 1,497 families. It is on the historical route taken by

Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to ...

in 331 BC between the

Persian Gates Persian Gate or the Susian Gate was the ancient name of the pass now known as Tang-e Meyran, connecting Yasuj with Sedeh to the east, crossing the border of the modern Kohgiluyeh va Boyer Ahmad and Fars provinces of Iran, passing south of the Kuh ...

and

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References

Populated places in Eqlid County Cities in Fars Province {{Eqlid-geo-stub