Tang-e Bolaghi
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Sean Manning
Creators: Sean Manning
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 21, 2025 05:09 PM
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History
A valley of the Pulvar River near Pasargadai in Fars/Persis, Iran. Rescue excavations before the completion of Sivand Dam revealed settlements and cemeteries from 5000 BCE to the Sassanian period, including the first rural site from the Achaemenid period to be excavated in Iran.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/303419362
30.1502606293, 53.1076676245
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location: modern reservoir behind the Sivand Dam (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location: modern Sivand Dam (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- Geonames location: Tang-e Bolāghī (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
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- Bolāghi Gorge (Bolaghi Gorge: English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Tang-e Bolaghi (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- تنگه بلاغی (Tangeh Bolāghi: Modern Persian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- None
- Pulvar/Araxes? (river) flows through Tang-e Bolaghi (unspecified date range)
dam, dike, levee, valley, reservoir, hafir, gorge
Pleiades
Sean Manning, and Tom Elliott, 'Tang-e Bolaghi: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/303419362> [accessed: 18 November 2025]
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