The Iron Gate Pass connects the Yanqi Basin and the Tarim Basin in central Xinjiang, China. The pass follows the gorge of the kaidu River. The main settlements...
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Iron Gate, or Iron Gates may refer to: Gates of Alexander, iron gates built by Alexander the Great Iron Gates (Algeria), a pass through the Bibans mountains...
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The Iron Gates (Romanian: Porțile de Fier; Serbian: Ђердапска клисура / Đerdapska klisura or Гвоздена капија / Gvozdena kapija; Hungarian: Vaskapu-szoros)...
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Darial Gorge (redirect from Darial Pass)
the "gate" or pass beside the Caspian Sea at Derbent); and the Tatars call it Darioly. Josephus wrote that Alexander the Great built iron gates at an...
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The Iron Gates (Arabic: البيبان, known in French as Défilé des Bibans or Porte de Fer) are a mountain pass in the Bibans in Algeria. They gave their name...
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The Iron Gate (Uzbek: Buzgalaxona; Old Turkic: 𐱅𐰢𐰼:𐰴𐰯𐰍, romanized: Temir qapïγ in Orkhon and Tonyukuk inscriptions; Persian: دربند Darband, Chinese:...
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Tarim Basin (section Caravans and passes)
Somewhere near Aksu the difficult Muzart Pass led north to the Ili River basin (Kulja). Near Korla was the Iron Gate Pass and now the highway and railway north...
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intervening Tian Shan, the road distance is considerably greater. The Iron Gate Pass (Tiemen Pass) leading to Karasahr is about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north of...
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Iron Gate is a town in eastern Alleghany County, Virginia, United States. The population was 324 at the 2020 census. The town is located along U.S. Route...
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The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor [ˈbʁandn̩ˌbʊʁɡɐ ˈtoːɐ̯] ) is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin. One of the best-known landmarks...
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The Gates of Alexander, also known as the Caspian Gates, are one of several mountain passes in eastern Anatolia, the Caucasus, and Persia separating the...
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Turnstile (redirect from Baffle gate)
turnpike, gateline, baffle gate, automated gate, turn gate in some regions) is a form of gate which allows one person to pass at a time. A turnstile can...
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The Dzungarian Gate (or Altai Gap or Altay Gap) is a geographically and historically significant mountain pass between China and Central Asia. It has...
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Basin route which ran from Kashgar over Aksu, Kucha, Korla, through the Iron Gate Pass, over Karasahr, Jiaohe, Turpan, Gaochang and Kumul to Anxi. The southern...
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Darya" which means "Tanner's River". The Kongque River flows through the Iron Gate Pass (simplified Chinese: 铁门关; traditional Chinese: 鐵門關; pinyin: Tiěmén Guān)...
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Algiers with Constantine, particularly through the strategic pass known as "the iron gates" in the Biban mountains. Having defeated Algiers, he reinstituted...
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Tiemenguan may refer to: Iron Gate Pass, or Tiemenguan in Chinese Tiemenguan City, named after the pass This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct...
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Mordor (redirect from Black Gate (Middle-earth))
northwest, the pass of Cirith Gorgor led into the enclosed plain of Udûn. Sauron built the Black Gate of Mordor (the Morannon) across the pass. This added...
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guarded gates and surrounding wall. The site of the Kalâa was a Hammadid fort housing a military contingent to control the strategic Iron Gate pass through...
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Wrought iron is no longer produced on a commercial scale. Many products described as wrought iron, such as guard rails, garden furniture, and gates are made...
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Tapae (redirect from Iron Gates of Transylvania)
the main political centre of Dacia. Its location was on the Iron Gates of Transylvania, a pass between Țarcului and Poiana Ruscă Mountains and connecting...
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Living Danube. Szentendre, Hungary. We Pass – Facilitating Fish Migration and Conservation at the Iron Gates. ICPDR. 11 November 2019. Archived from...
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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific...
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(vexillatio) from Legio VI Ferrata (perhaps from the " Iron Gates" pass and from the Red Tower pass) but the Dacians repelled the first attack that left...
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town's capture, and reached Algiers on 2 November via Sétif and the Iron Gates pass. Abd-el-Kader saw this as a violation of the Treaty of Tafna and unleashed...
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Walls of Constantinople (redirect from Golden Gate (Constantinople))
next gate is now known as the Demirkapı ("Iron Gate"), and is an Ottoman-era structure. A Greek name is not known, and it is not known whether a gate stood...
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Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount...
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an upcoming survival and sandbox video game by the Swedish developer Iron Gate Studio and published by Coffee Stain Studios. It was released in early...
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intervening prefectural government. The city is named after the nearby Iron Gate Pass (Tiemen Guan in Chinese). Tiemenguan contains 1 subdistrict, 9 towns...
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Porta Sempione (category Gates of Milan)
Porta Sempione ("Simplon Gate") is a city gate of Milan, Italy. The name is used both to refer to the gate proper and to the surrounding district (quartiere)...
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