Iron Gates Wall (Darband, Uzbekistan)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Tom Elliott
Creators: Tom Elliott
Contributors:
David Meadows
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 31, 2025 10:15 PM
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History
A fortification system west of modern Darband in Uzbekistan that controlled a 20-kilometer-long corridor through the Hissar mountain range along the valley of the modern Shurob river. Originally constructed in the third century BCE, this barrier has been repeatedly renewed and reconstructed through to the 14th century and can still be seen today.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/566823184
38.2078458069, 66.9742598499
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: Visible ruins of Iron Gates Wall (300 BC - AD 1399) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Darband Wall (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Iron Gates Wall (Darband, Uzbekistan) located at Iron Gate (Central Asia) (unspecified date range)
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Pleiades
Tom Elliott, and David Meadows, 'Iron Gates Wall (Darband, Uzbekistan): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/566823184> [accessed: 18 November 2025]
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