Iran
Central Iran
Fars

Pasargad

Pasargad is a historical site near , in province. It is the site of the tomb of Cyrus the Great.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: ancient city and archaeological site in Fars Province, Iranian national heritage site
  • Also known as: “Manţaqeh-ye Bāstānī-ye Pāsārgād”, “Parsa Garda”, “Pārsehgarda”, “Pāsārgād”, “Pāsārgādā”, “Pasargadae”, “Pāsārgade”, “Passargad”, “Pāzārgād”, and “Shahr-e Pāzārgād”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tomb of Cyrus II and Muzaffarid Caravanserai.

Photo: Bernd81, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The tomb of Cyrus the Great is located in Pasargadae, which was the first capital city of his Achaemenid Empire and is now an archaeological site in the Fars Province of .

Photo: Yare zaman2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Madar-e-Soleyman and Abu ol Verdi.

Town
Photo: Alireza Javaheri, CC BY 3.0.
is a city in, and the capital of, Pasargad District of Pasargad County, province, . It also serves as the administrative center for Rural District.

Village
is a village in, and the capital of, Rural District of Pasargad District, Pasargad County, province, .

Village
is a village in Madar Soleyman Rural District, Hakhamanish District, Pasargad County, , . At the 2006 census, its population was 972, in 238 families.

Pasargad

Latitude
30.2016° or 30° 12′ 6″ north
Longitude
53.1767° or 53° 10′ 36″ east
Elevation
1,849 metres (6,066 feet)
Open location code
8H2M652G+MM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 203395269
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
121340
Wiki­data ID
Q230025
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Wu Chinese—“Pasargad” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Πασαργάδαι”
  • Arabic: “بازارقادش”
  • Arabic: “باسارغاد”
  • Arabic: “باساركاد”
  • Armenian: “Պասարգադ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pasargad”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pasarqad”
  • Basque: “Pasargada”
  • Belarusian: “Пасаргады”
  • Bengali: “পসারগাদে”
  • Bengali: “পাসারগাদ”
  • Bosnian: “Pasargad”
  • Bulgarian: “Пасаргада”
  • Bulgarian: “Пасаргадае”
  • Catalan: “Pasargada”
  • Catalan: “Pasàrgades”
  • Cebuano: “Pasargadae”
  • Chinese: “帕萨尔加德”
  • Chinese: “帕薩爾加德”
  • Chinese: “帕雨爾帕加德”
  • Croatian: “Pasargad”
  • Croatian: “Pasargada”
  • Croatian: “Pasargadae”
  • Czech: “Pasargady”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pasargad”
  • Dutch: “Pasargadae”
  • Esperanto: “Pasargado”
  • Finnish: “Pasargadae”
  • Finnish: “Pasargadai”
  • Finnish: “Pathragada”
  • French: “Pasargadae”
  • French: “Pasargades”
  • Georgian: “ფასარგადი”
  • German: “Parsagadae”
  • German: “Pasargadae”
  • German: “Pasargadai”
  • German: “Pasargade”
  • Greek: “Πασαργάδες”
  • Hebrew: “פסארגאדה”
  • Hindi: “पसर्गादाए”
  • Hindi: “पसारगडे”
  • Hungarian: “Paszargadai”
  • Indonesian: “Pasargadae”
  • Irish: “Pasargadae”
  • Italian: “Pasargade”
  • Japanese: “パサルガダイ”
  • Japanese: “パサルガダエ”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಸರ್ಗಾಡೇ”
  • Korean: “파사르가다에 부족”
  • Korean: “파사르가다에”
  • Korean: “파사르가대”
  • Korean: “파사르가드”
  • Latin: “Pasargadae”
  • Latvian: “Pasargade”
  • Lithuanian: “Pasargadai”
  • Maithili: “पसारगडे”
  • Malay: “Pasargadae”
  • Maltese: “Pasargadae”
  • Mazanderani: “پاسارگاد”
  • Mingrelian: “ფასარგადი”
  • Mongolian: “Пасаргад”
  • Mongolian: “Пасаргада”
  • Nepali: “पसारगडे”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pasargadae”
  • Norwegian: “Pasargadae”
  • Persian: “پاسارگاد”
  • Persian: “پاسارگادا”
  • Persian: “شهر هخامنشیان (مشهد مرغاب)/ پاسارگاد”
  • Persian: “مشهد مرغاب پاسارگاد”
  • Persian: “منطقه باستانی پاسارگاد”
  • Polish: “Pasargady”
  • Portuguese: “Pasárgada”
  • Portuguese: “Pasárgadas”
  • Russian: “Пасаргада”
  • Russian: “Пасаргады (сады Фарса)”
  • Russian: “Пасаргады”
  • Scots: “Pasargadae”
  • Serbian: “Пасаргад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pasargad”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pasargada”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pasargadae”
  • Sindhi: “پاسارگاد”
  • Slovak: “Pasargadai”
  • Slovenian: “Pasargad”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پاسارقاد”
  • Spanish: “Pasagardas”
  • Spanish: “Pasargada”
  • Spanish: “Pasargadae”
  • Spanish: “Pasargadas”
  • Swahili: “Pasargadi”
  • Swedish: “Pasargad”
  • Swedish: “Pasargadae”
  • Swedish: “Pasargadai”
  • Tajik: “Посоргод”
  • Tatar: “Пасаргад”
  • Turkish: “Pasargad”
  • Ukrainian: “Пасаргади”
  • Urdu: “پاسارگاد”
  • Urdu: “تخت سلیمان”
  • Uzbek: “Pasargada”
  • Vietnamese: “Pasargadae”
  • Western Panjabi: “پارساگاد”
  • Western Panjabi: “پاسارگاد”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕萨尔加德”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Pasargad”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.