DAGH BARY, an important part of the colossal Darband defensive complex erected in the eastern Caucasus during the reign of…

ŠAHRESTĀN YAZDEGERD, the Sasanian city-fortress built by Yazdegerd II (r. 439-57 CE) in the province of Čol, attested by the…

APZUT KAWĀT WALL The Apzut Kawāt wall was a Sasanian defensive long wall mentioned by Anania Širakac‘i in the part…

DARBAND EPIGRAPHY ii. DAR-E QIĀMAT SHRINE Dar-e Qiāmat (Darvāza-ye Qiāmat) was a medieval Muslim cultic site, now forgotten and non-functioning,…

DARBAND EPIGRAPHY i. MIDDLE PERSIAN INSCRIPTIONS Pahlavi inscriptions of the mid-6th century CE are engraved on the defensive walls of…