Talk:Iron Gates

message: Whence the "iron" in the name? --84.20.17.84 13:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm wondering the same. Where does the name come from? Is it older than the modern dam? Snowgrouse (talk) 01:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The correct name includes a plural, so it is "Iron Gates". The name is coming from the gorges themselves, while the Cauldrons came from the Tachtalia waterfalls, generated by Permian rhyolites, now covered by the dam lake.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mihaiepopa (talk • contribs) 11:31, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The question is why "iron". This comment doesn't seem to address the question at all. GeneCallahan (talk) 21:55, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iron 

message: "The Great Kazan ("kazan" meaning "kettle") is the most famous and the most narrow gorge of the route: the river here narrows to 150 m and reaches a depth of up to 53 m. It was at this site that the Roman emperor Trajan had the legendary bridge erected by Apollodorus of Damascus." 
This part is WRONG. The bridge was between what is now Drobeta-Turnu Severin and Kladovo.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.113.103.60 (talk) 23:15, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Bridge 

message: But WHO CARES ABOUT THIS??? There are so many other books, WORLD CLASS CLASSICAL LITERATURE or many other, much more serious writers that wrote about the Iron Gate, why does this article need Earth's Children? WHO CARES, really, besides the person who put it in the article??? This is an encyclopedia and not a book for the fans of Harry Potter and its kind!Myrmeleon formicarius (talk) 13:20, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Earth's Children

message: Gvozdena Vrata is very much used in Serbian, especially in historical and archaeological works. It is not a translation from English, this is how the Romans called it.  Of course, Djerdap is a more widespread term in public. It is a Turkish word and, as far as I remember, it means whirpool. I'd say, the best way to translate Kazan is cauldron. Who'd seen it knows why :-) . 
Cheers, 89.204.139.131 (talk) 21:12, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: About the name, and other things

message: Most references I have seen, in literature and history, refer to "Iron Gates" in the plural. This question was raised eight years ago (see above) but apparently hasn't been resolved.
No map?
Sca (talk) 20:52, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Correction:  My Times Atlas of the World shows it as "Iron Gate" (singular).  Sca (talk) 21:19, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: On the other hand, the Romania article refers to the "Iron Gates" (plural). Sca (talk) 21:45, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Plural-2

message: "The cliffs scale to 500 m and are the most difficult to reach here from land."
From land? Not from the land on top of the cliffs they aren't hard to reach! Is what is meant "from the riverbank"? Or is it meant that it is hard to get down the cliffs to the river? GeneCallahan (talk) 21:52, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cliffs difficult to reach 

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