Ferdowsi Street (), formerly Alaodowleh Street or Alaoddowleh Street (), is a street located in

Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...

, Iran. It is named after

Ferdowsi Abu'l-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (also Firdawsi, ; 940 – 1019/1025) was a Persians, Persian poet and the author of ''Shahnameh'' ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poetry, epic poems created by a single poet, and the gre ...

, and is the center of Tehran's

currency exchange A bureau de change (plural bureaux de change, both ; British English) or currency exchange (American English) is a business where people can exchange one currency for another. Nomenclature Originally French, the term () is widely used thro ...

trade.Changing Money in Iran: A Report From Tehran's Ferdowsi Square - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
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