Iron Gate (Central Asia)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: St J. Simpson, F. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: St J. Simpson, F. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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A pass through the Hissar mountains in modern Uzbekistan, located just west of the village of Darband/Derbent.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/962627
38.2216, 66.9068
- Representative Locations:
- Geohack Location: Iron Gate (Central Asia) (modern) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
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- Iron Gate (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- 鐵門關 (Tiě mén guān: Chinese, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Железные ворота (Zheleznyye vorota: Russian, unspecified date range)
- None
- Iron Gates Wall (Darband, Uzbekistan) located at Iron Gate (Central Asia) (unspecified date range)
pass, "gates" (landform)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 98 G1
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: N Maidan kurgan (“Iron Gate”) UZB
St J. Simpson, F. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, R. Talbert, David Meadows, and Tom Elliott, 'Iron Gate (Central Asia): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/962627> [accessed: 11 May 2026]
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