Gates of Alexander

English

Proper noun

the Gates of Alexander

  1. (historical) One of several mountain passes in eastern Anatolia, the Caucasus, and Persia, often imagined as an actual fortification, or as a symbolic boundary separating the civilized from the uncivilized world.
    Synonym: Caspian Gates

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