Fort 30, Great Wall of Gorgan

The Great Wall of Gorgan is a Sasanian-era defense system located near modern in the Golestān Province of northeastern Iran, at the southeastern corner of the Caspian Sea.
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  • Archaeological site
  • Description: series of ancient defensive fortifications in northeastern Iran
  • Also known as
    “Gorgan Wall”
    “Great Wall of Gorgan”
    “Qizil Alan”
    “Qizil Alan wall”
    “Red Snake”
    “Tamishe Difar”
    “The Red Snake”
    “Wall of Gorgan”
    “قلعه سی ام دیوار بزرگ گرگان”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saqar Tappeh and Qolmas.
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Fort 30, Great Wall of Gorgan

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Latitude
37.13792° or 37° 8′ 17″ north
Longitude
54.32675° or 54° 19′ 36″ east
Open location code
8H9P48QG+5P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 325787178
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q739507

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Fort 30, Great Wall of Gorgan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جدار جرجان”
  • Arabic: “سور جرجان”
  • Chinese: “戈尔干长城”
  • Chinese: “戈爾幹長城”
  • Croatian: “Veliki gorganski zid”
  • Dutch: “Grote Muur van Gorgan”
  • French: “Muraille de Gorgan”
  • German: “Grosse Mauer von Gorgan”
  • German: “Große Mauer von Gorgan”
  • Greek: “Αλεξάνδρειο Τείχος”
  • Hausa: “Babban bangon Gorgan”
  • Hebrew: “חומת גורגאן הגדולה”
  • Italian: “Grande muraglia di Gorgan”
  • Japanese: “ゴルガーンの長城”
  • Japanese: “ゴルガーンの防衛壁”
  • Mazanderani: “تمیشه دیفار”
  • Mazanderani: “تمیشه دیوار”
  • Mazanderani: “جرجان دیوار”
  • Mazanderani: “سرخ دیوار گرگان”
  • Mazanderani: “قزل آلان دیوار”
  • Mazanderani: “گرگان بلند دیفار”
  • Mazanderani: “گرگان بلند دیوار”
  • Mazanderani: “گرگان دیفار”
  • Mazanderani: “گرگان دیوار”
  • Mazanderani: “گرگان سرخ دیفار”
  • Mazanderani: “گرگان سرخ دیوار”
  • Mazanderani: “گرگان سرخ مر”
  • Mazanderani: “گرگان سرخ مهر”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den røde slange”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gorgans store mur”
  • Norwegian: “Gorgans store mur”
  • Persian: “دیوار بزرگ گرگان”
  • Persian: “دیوار گرگان”
  • Polish: “Wielki Mur Gorgański”
  • Russian: “Великая Горганская стена”
  • Russian: “Горганская стена”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Veliki gorganski zid”
  • Spanish: “Gran muralla de Gorgán”
  • Spanish: “Gran muro de Gorgán”
  • Tamil: “கோர்கனின் பெருஞ்சுவர்”
  • Tatar: “Гөрган дивары”
  • Tatar: “Гөрганның Бөек дивары”
  • Turkish: “Gürgan Büyük Duvarı”
  • Ukrainian: “Велика Горганьска стіна”
  • Ukrainian: “Великий Горганський мур”
  • Welsh: “Mur Mawr Gorgan”

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