Surveying Georgia’s Past by Licini, Patrizia

Subjects: “…Alan-Gates. Caspian-Gates. Distortion. Gates-of-Ibería-or-Caucasian. …”
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Unveiling a Ghost. About an Islamic Mappa Mundi, the Tower of Hercules, and Representations of Lighthouses in Medieval Cartography by Jesús Ángel Sánchez-García

“…Inside his pages it contains a rectangular world map, which shows as the only represented building the legendary Caspian Gates, attributed to Alexander the Great. In the other confines of the inhabited lands, opposite to the north-western angle of the Iberian Peninsula, an enigmatic shape of a dilapidated tower raised the possibility that it was the figure of the ancient Roman lighthouse known as Tower of Hercules (La Coruña, Spain). …”
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Klauzura północno-wschodniej Azji na mapach średniowiecznych i wczesnonowożytnych by Piotr Kochanek

“…The subject of research are three graphic topoi, that evoke the image of the biblical and historical enemy from the north: Gog and Magog, Caspian Gates (Portae Caspiae) and the inclosed nations (inclusae nationes). …”
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ENVY OF THE GODS : Alexander the Great's Ill-Fated Journey across Asia / by Prevas, John, author 371915