Dowdej ( fa, دودج, also
Romanized as Dūdej; also known as Dodej, Dūdeh, Duder, and Qal‘eh Dūdij) is a village in
Darian Rural District
Darian Rural District ( fa, دهستان داريان) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in the Central District of Shiraz County, Fars Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a ...
, in the
Central District of
Shiraz County,
Fars Province,
Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,480, in 355 families.
According to
Abdolmajid Arfaee, Dūdej is the same as the place called ''Dutaš'' mentioned in the
Persepolis Administrative Archives of
Darius I
Darius I ( peo, 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 ; grc-gre, Δαρεῖος ; – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his ...
.
It is closely associated in the Persepolis tablets with the place called ''Uranduš'', which Arfaee suggests may have been near present-day
Dariyan.
References
Populated places in Shiraz County
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