Continuing with the knowledge of the great walls of Antiquity. After having talked about the Gorgan Wall today we will talk about The Caspian Gates of whose remains there is hardly any evidence but it will not help to know a part of history that here in Europe is the great unknown. They are a barrier or wall that has existed since ancient times to contain the barbarians of the Korkturk Kaganate the Celestial Turks who are the inhabitants of what is now Mongolia and who lived on the Silk Road . The Derbent fortification network located in the Caucasian area of Russia is generally considered to be such . What was Gog and Magog? What are the Red Jews? Their goal was to hinder the passage south through the Caucasus keeping Anatolia and the Middle East safe from northern barbarians .
However the exact location of the Caspian Gates is not known so there are two places that are traditionally believed to have housed them. fArea map The first is the Darial Gorge a river gorge on the Russian - Georgian border through which the Terek CXB Directory River runs between Vladikavkaz and Tbilisi . Roman and Persian fortifications existed here since at least BC known as the Gates of Iberia for the homonymous region which Strabo called “ Porta Caucasica” and Ptolemy “ Fortes Sarmatica” . The other place is Derbent a city south of the Russian Republic of Dagestan and on the border with Azerbaijan.
It is traditionally considered the oldest city in the Russian Federation with more than years of history. fThe double wall of Derbent in an illustration by Jacob Peeters late th century public domain photo It once had thirty towers facing north which used to stretch for forty kilometers between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains effectively blocking the passage through the Caucasus mountain range to the south. What's more Derbent literally means “ closed door” in Persian. The Arabs knew it as “ Bāb al Abwab ” Gate of doors and to the Turks it was “ Demirkapı” Iron Gate. They are identified with the Caspian Gates because the legendary tradition also present in the Koran and the Bible with some variations tells that Alexander the Great built iron gates here to contain the mythical town of Gog and Magog which Flavius Josephus identified with the Scythians . Ruins of these ancient fortifications are still visible.
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