The Travels of Marco Polo · Location
Iron Gate (Derbend Pass)
Also known as Demír-Kápi, Sadd-i-Iskandar, Gate of Gates
- fortress
- Medieval fortifications
The celebrated pass of Derbend, the Iron Gate or Gate of Gates between the Caucasus and the Caspian. Polo links it with the frontier of Georgiania as a fortified defile, not as the kingdom itself.
- Type
- fortress
- Style
- Medieval fortifications
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 40
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1
The celebrated pass of Derbend, the Iron Gate or Gate of Gates between the Caucasus and the Caspian. Polo links it with the frontier of Georgiania as a fortified defile, not as the kingdom itself.
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