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Pol-e Dokhtar

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tags: ANE

Romanized Name(s):
Pol-e Dokhtar

Name as attested:

Language:
Persian (modern)

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300) (confident)
Late Antique (AD 300-AD 640) (confident)
Ottoman Empire (AD ca 1300-1923) (confident)
Modern (AD 1700-Present) (confident)

References:

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The name means "bridge of the daughter" and is likely named after a daughter of the builder of the Pol-e Dokhtar bridge, the Sasanian ruler Shapur I (241-272 A.D.).

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