Derbend

Lord Curzon, however, in his valuable work _Persia and the Persians_, vol. 1, p. 293, proves conclusively that the pass through which Alexander's army marched when pursuing Darius after the battle of Arbela could not have been at Derbend.

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela

General Fesi after having marched from Derbend to Chunsach had erected a citadel there, had driven Ali Bey, one of Schamyl's murids, out of the fort of Akhulgo, and had then come to the rescue of lieutenant

Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie

Benjamin and Marco Polo both record the general belief currrent at the time that the Pass of Derbend was traversed by Alexander.

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela

But occupied during the next two hundred years with affairs at the north, the Russian princes lost their possessions and most of their influence in the Caucasus; and it was not until 1722 that the far-seeing ambition of the great Peter brought him to the "Albanian gates" of Derbend, and even within sight of the sacred fires of the promontory of Apsheron.

Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie

Derbend, between the Caspian and the Caucasus, "which Alexander made to shut the barbarians out of Persia."

Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911

(A, No. 1), a Pentateuch roll, unpointed, brought from Derbend in Daghestan, appears by the subscription to have been written previous to A.D. 580 and if so is the oldest known biblical Hebrew MS. in existence.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

The advent of the Russian road will probably lead to the development of Kasvin's large area of fruitful vines, and the success which has attended vineyard industry at Derbend, on the Caspian, may encourage similar enterprise there.

Persia Revisited Thomas Edward Gordon 1873

We must pass over, reluctantly, Mr. Baddeley's very interesting sketch of the gradual approach made by Russia toward the Caucasus during the eighteenth century, which may be said to have begun in earnest with the expedition of Peter the Great, who led an army to the Caspian shore and captured Derbend about 1722.

Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873

Here is a celebrated defile, four leagues in length, which lies between the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea, that the Turks call the Iron Door, and Europeans the Pass of Derbend, and here too is the miraculous lake, where fish are said to exist only during Lent.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Jules Verne 1866

It deserves all their solicitude, as, with the exception of the road by Derbend, on the Caspian Sea,

Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856