English Explanatory Dictionary

Gates of Alexander

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. 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.

Word forms

Gates of Alexander the Gates of Alexander

Synonyms

Caspian Gates
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