Tzon/Tzur

settlement · 750 BC – 1599 AD

Tzon/Tzur (modern Derbent, Russia) was also known in antiquity as Darband, an ancient city in Dāḡestān on the western shore of the Caspian Sea.

Coordinates

42.05778, 48.29670

Also known as

Bābü’l-ebvāb (ota), Demürḳapu (ota), Derbend (ota), Tzon, Tzur, باب الابواب (ota)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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