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Iron Gate (Central Asia)
The Iron Gate is a narrow mountain pass in the Baysun range of southern Uzbekistan, on the route between Samarkand and the Amu Darya. In antiquity and the Middle Ages it marked the frontier between Sogdiana and Tokharistan, and it is described by the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang in the 7th century and named in the Old Turkic inscriptions of Mongolia.
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