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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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    wall built by Alexander. In the Travels of Marco Polo, the wall in Derbent is identified with the Gates of Alexander. The Gates of Alexander are most commonly...
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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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    and Magog by the time of the Roman period, that the Gates of Alexander were erected by Alexander the Great to repel the tribe. Romanized Jewish historian...
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  • Syriac Alexander Legend transformed the Gates of Alexander into an apocalyptic barrier built by Alexander in the Caucasus to keep out the nations of Gog...
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    providing a list of all the cities that Alexander founded. The Romance locates the Gates of Alexander between two mountains called the "Breasts of the North"...
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    describes the Gates of Alexander (and is the first to mention them after Pliny the Elder). Josephus describes these gates in the context of a barbarian...
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    court rulings. In June 2008, Gates transitioned into a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable...
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    Darial Gorge (redirect from Caucasian Gates)
    Russia, it has been the site of Russians fleeing conscription for the Russo-Ukrainian War. Gates of Alexander Iberian Gates Georgian: დარიალის ხეობა, romanized:...
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    Microsoft, and the ex-wife of its co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates. French Gates has consistently been ranked as one of the world's most powerful...
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    Alexander the Great 1200km 820miles Babylon 15 Malavas 14 Hydaspes 13 Cophen 12 Cyropolis 11 Persian Gate 10 Uxians 9 Gaugamela 8 Alexandria 7 Gaza 6...
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    Defense of the Great Wall Gates of Alexander Grand Canal (China) Great Wall of China hoax Great Wall Marathon Great Wall of Gorgan Great Wall of India List...
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  • the Alexander Romance, Alexander the Great builds walls of Adamantine, the Gates of Alexander, to keep the giants Gog and Magog from pillaging the peaceful...
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    extra-biblical sources List of people known as The Great Gates of Alexander Military tactics of Alexander the Great Ptolemaic cult of Alexander the Great Theories...
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    Sadd-i-Iskandar) or "Alexander's Wall", as Alexander the Great is thought by early Muslims to have passed through the Caspian Gates on his hasty march to Hyrcania...
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    with Alexander and refers to him by that name. The reference to the horns of Alexander are also found in the Ethiopic Alexander Romance. Gates of Alexander...
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    one pass on the southeast end in Derbent (known as the Caspian Gates or Gates of Alexander), and multiple passes throughout the range: Jvari Pass at 2379 m...
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  • Hadith Dhulqarnayn (category Alexander Romance)
    texts interpolate from the Syriac Alexander Legend, such as in how it describes the construction of the Gates of Alexander designed to keep out and confine...
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    lives and histories of their ancestors. Gates was born on September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia, to Pauline Augusta (Coleman) Gates (1916–1987) and...
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  • Iskandarnameh (category Alexander Romance)
    recensions of the Alexander romance, such as the Qissat al-Iskandar and the Qissat Dhulqarnayn. As such, he is double-horned and builds the famous Gates of Alexander...
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    the Greek conqueror Alexander the Great in 330 BC. Her home is the Thermodon region, or, variably, the Gates of Alexander, south of the Caspian Sea. Quintus...
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    the Minangkabau royalty of Central Sumatra and the Cholan emperor Rajendra I in the Malay Annals. Gates of Alexander Iron Gate (Central Asia) Ergenekon...
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  • The 743 Caspian Gates earthquake reportedly took place in the year 743 or 744 in the Caspian Gates (Gates of Alexander). The location is identified with...
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  • Gates (Georgian: იბერიის კარი, Turkish: Gürcü Boğazı) is situated in the westernmost extension of historical Georgia (Zemo Kartli), on the plateau of...
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    The Gates were a group of gates comprising a site-specific work of art by Bulgarian artist Christo Yavacheff and French artist Jeanne-Claude, known jointly...
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    for "the Alan Pass/gate" – with the Alans being the modern Iranic Ossetians.) It is often identified with the Gates of Alexander, a legendary barrier...
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    2022-02-11. Speck, Henry (2002). "Alexander at the Persian Gates. A Study in Historiography and Topography". American Journal of Ancient History. n.s. 1 (1):...
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    The wars of Alexander the Great (Greek: Πόλεμοι του Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου) were a series of conquests that were carried out by Alexander III of Macedon from...
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  • Gates to Paradise is a 1968 film by Polish director Andrzej Wajda. The film is set in medieval France and is based on a novel by Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski...
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    army, Gates sold his commission and established a small plantation in Virginia. On Washington's recommendation, the Continental Congress made Gates the...
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