Wall of Alexander

Wall of Alexander

The Wall of Alexander, known in Arabic as Sad-e Eskander or Sadd-i Iskender ("The wall of Alexander"), also known as the Kizil Yilan ("Red Serpent") was a wall established on the limit between the fertile lands and the nomadic steppes, at the frontier between modern Mazandaran in northeastern Iran and Turkmenistan.

A wall was initially erected by the Iranian, and Alexander erected a similar wall in the same area, as well as his succesor Seleucus I. Today the various archaeological remains are difficult to distinguish and to attribute to either. [Roux, p.42]

Remains of the wall are today visible near the city of Gonbad-e-Kavus. It extends from the former shore of the Caspian sea (about 5 kilometers inland today) to a northern spur of the Elburz mountains, over a distance of about 180 kilometers. [Roux, p.42]

Notes

References

*Jean Paul Roux, "L'Asie Centrale, Histoire et Civilization", Fayard, 1997, ISBN 9782213598949

External links

* [http://www.livius.org/a/iran/wall/alexander.html Livius.org: Wall of Alexander]


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